The Test Manager will lead the quality assurance and testing strategy for a large-scale Gateway Consolidation Program, focusing on migrating five legacy gateways onto a single target .NET platform. This role is critical to setting up the ways of working, test strategy, and overarching QA governance. The test manager should lead the testing team through the active delivery phase, ensuring both functional and non-functional requirements are met.

- Define and establish the overarching test strategy, QA ways of working, and governance.

- Manage, direct, and scale the QA team during the delivery phase within a large-scale, program structure.

- Define full end-state technology readiness tests.

- Co-own, define and control non-functional requirements.

- Establish and enforce quality gates and acceptance criteria.

- Lead synthetic stress testing, exploratory scenario brainstorming, and architecture walkthroughs.

- Establish data migration integrity testing.

- Validate the safe transfer of tokens, subscriptions, and configurations.

- Validate complex API adapters and routing logic to ensure follow-on operations (refunds, voids, captures) accurately bridge legacy and target systems.

Requirements





- Strong extensive experience as a test manager/test lead managing test strategies in complex projects.

- Proven experience operating within and setting up QA processes for large environments (e.g. SAFe).

- Proven experience with integration and migration of complex systems.

- Strong payment gateway / processor domain knowledge focused on the US market and PCI compliance.

- Deep expertise in non-functional testing (capacity, performance, scalability, resilience, security).

- Experience with AI augmented testing and AI powered SDLC.

- Robust domain knowledge of B2B and B2C payment capabilities.

- Rigorous understanding of PCI-DSS compliance and data encryption validation.

- Experience validating integrations across diverse enterprise architectures (Azure, AWS, GCP) and legacy codebases (Java, PHP, SQL).

Nice to have:

- Experience with the US processor TSYS and US payment methods such as ACH.

- Experience testing hardware interactions with pre-certified physical payment terminals, such as Ingenico, Verifone and PAX.

- Familiarity with auditing AI-generated code or AI-assisted deliverables for security and compliance adherence.

📌 Testing Manager (Chennai)
🏢 Ciklum
📍 Chennai