Senior Test Manager (Wealth Management/Capital Markets)

In this role, you will

Lead end-to-end testing programs across Canadian Wealth Management platforms covering KYC, Client Onboarding, MFDA/CIRO compliance, Securities Processing, and Book of Records (BoR) modernization initiatives.
Lead Securities and Wealth Operations testing, including trade lifecycle processing, settlements, reconciliations, mutual funds, equities, fixed income products, corporate actions, and advisor servicing functions.
Drive regulatory testing and compliance validation for CIRO (formerly MFDA and IIROC), KYC, AML, Client Focused Reforms (CFR), suitability requirements, investor disclosures, and audit readiness.
Oversee Book of Records (BoR) testing activities, validating client, account, holdings, transactions, positions, valuations, and downstream reporting data across integrated wealth management platforms.
Own the testing strategy, governance, and execution roadmap for large-scale transformation, regulatory, digital, and data migration programs ensuring alignment with business and regulatory objectives.
Direct multiple testing teams across onshore and offshore locations, managing resource planning, financials, estimations, schedules, quality gates, risk mitigation, and delivery governance.
Establish and monitor program-level quality metrics and reporting, including defect trends, test coverage, environment readiness, execution progress, release readiness, and executive dashboards.
Manage cross-functional stakeholders including Business, Compliance, Risk, Operations, Product Owners, Technology Teams, and external vendors to ensure successful delivery of testing milestones.
Champion test automation, quality engineering, and continuous testing practices, leveraging Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, API testing, and automation frameworks to improve speed, efficiency, and quality.
Provide executive leadership and program governance, presenting status, risks, dependencies, mitigation plans, and testing outcomes to senior management, steering committees, auditors, and regulatory stakeholders.

Required skills

12-18 years in QA/Test Management with 5+ years in Canadian Wealth Management and Securities.
Strong knowledge of CIRO/MFDA Regulatory Testing, KYC & Client Onboarding Testing, Securities & Capital Markets Operations, Trading, and Advisor platforms, Regulatory & Compliance Programs.
Proven leadership of large-scale KYC, BoR, Regulatory Compliance, and Wealth Modernization programs.
Proven experience leading large-scale QA delivery, including test strategy design, execution management, and onsite-offshore team coordination.
Experience managing multi-million-dollar programs and geographically distributed testing teams.
Canadian Wealth Management Domain Expertise.
Book of Records (BoR) Testing & Data Validation.
Test Program Management.
Agile, Waterfall & Hybrid Delivery.
JIRA, Confluence, ALM, SQL.
Leadership, Stakeholder & Vendor Management.

Preferred skills

Subject matter expertise in Insurance, Wealth Management, Investment or Portfolio Management.
Experience leading large-scale modernization or digital transformation programs.