Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Test Lead – Asset & Wealth Management Technology to lead end-to-end testing across investment technology implementations, transformation programmes, platform upgrades, and managed services engagements. The role requires a hands-on testing leader with strong expertise in test strategy, planning, execution, defect management, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

The ideal candidate will have a robust understanding of asset and wealth management business processes across front-, middle-, and back-office operations, along with practical experience in investment management platforms such as SimCorp Dimension, Charles River Development (CRD), or BlackRock Aladdin . The role also involves leading onshore and offshore testing teams, ensuring release quality, and maintaining rigorous testing standards across complex financial services technology environments.

Key Responsibilities:

- Define and own end-to-end test strategies, test plans, estimates, schedules, resource plans, and quality assurance processes.
- Establish testing scope, coverage, entry and exit criteria, quality gates, and formal sign-off requirements.
- Lead functional, system integration, regression, data migration, interface, and user acceptance testing.
- Prepare and execute test cases for high-risk and complex business scenarios, ensuring end-to-end coverage across investment management workflows.
- Validate platform configurations, business processes, interfaces, reconciliations, reports, and data outputs against business and technical requirements.
- Lead and coordinate a small team of onshore and offshore test analysts, including task allocation, progress monitoring, quality reviews, coaching, and mentoring.
- Manage test environments, test data, release readiness, and dependencies in collaboration with business, technical, and vendor teams.




- Own the end-to-end defect management lifecycle, including defect logging, triage, prioritisation, root cause analysis, retesting, and resolution tracking.
- Lead defect triage meetings and communicate testing progress, coverage, risks, issues, and quality metrics to client stakeholders and programme leadership.
- Lead UAT activities, including business user preparation, test execution support, defect resolution, acceptance criteria validation, and completion sign-off.
- Own regression testing and release assurance for platform upgrades, patches, recurring releases, and business-as-usual changes in managed services engagements.
- Identify opportunities to improve testing efficiency through reusable test assets, risk-based regression coverage, and test automation.
- Prepare and maintain test documentation, execution evidence, results, approvals, and sign-offs in line with project governance standards.
- Assess go-live readiness, highlight outstanding risks, and provide evidence-based recommendations to support implementation and release decisions.

Required Skills and Experience:

- Proven experience leading testing for investment management platform implementations, upgrades, transformation programmes, or complex financial services technology initiatives.
- Hands-on experience with at least one core asset and wealth management platform: SimCorp Dimension, Charles River Development (CRD), or BlackRock Aladdin .




- Strong understanding of asset management business processes across front-, middle-, and back-office operations.
- Demonstrated expertise in test strategy, planning, estimation, execution, test coverage, and quality governance.
- Experience in functional, system integration, regression, data migration, interface, and UAT testing.
- Strong knowledge of defect management, defect triage, root cause analysis, and stakeholder coordination.
- Experience leading and mentoring onshore, offshore, or blended testing teams.
- Familiarity with test management tools such as Jira, Xray, Zephyr, HP ALM, or Azure DevOps.
- Experience validating investment workflows, business rules, interfaces, reconciliations, reports, and data integrity.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and risk-based testing skills.
- Excellent client-facing communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to challenge quality concerns and assess go-live readiness.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in managed services, application support, platform upgrades, and recurring release testing.
- Exposure to test automation tools and frameworks, including identifying opportunities for automation and reusable test assets.
- Experience in reconciliation, interface, and data migration testing across multi-system environments.
- Familiarity with Agile, hybrid, and Waterfall delivery methodologies.
- Consulting experience with investment managers, wealth managers, or asset servicing organisations.
- Exposure to comparable investment management platforms such as Avaloq, FNZ, Bloomberg AIM, or Eagle.
- Relevant professional certifications, such as ISTQB Advanced Level Test Manager.
- Experience delivering testing across multi-team programmes with complex dependencies and strict quality and release governance requirements.

📌 Test Lead – Asset & Wealth Management Technology (Bengaluru)
🏢 AceNet
📍 Bengaluru