Test Lead - Finance, Risk, & Tax CONTRACTOR

Technology Americas | Test Lead – Finance, Risk & Tax – CONTRACTOR | New York

About ING: 

In the Americas, ING’s Wholesale Banking division offers a broad range of innovative financial products and services to domestic and international corporate and institutional clients. 

When you come to work at ING, you’re joining a team where individuality isn’t just accepted, it’s encouraged. We’ve built a culture that’s fun, friendly and supportive – it’s the kind of place where you can be yourself and make the most of whatever you have to offer.

We give people the freedom to take risks, think differently, take ownership of their work, and make great things happen. We’re here to help you get ahead. And with our global network, there’s plenty of scope to take your career in new directions, perhaps even ones you’ve never considered. ING Americas follows a hybrid work model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility. Hybrid work arrangements vary based on business area.

Sound like the kind of place you’d feel at home? We’d love to hear from you.

About the position:

ING is seeking an experienced, hands-on Test Lead to establish and coordinate the testing approach for Finance, Risk and Tax reporting deliverables within a major local and global internal program. The consultant will lead test planning and execution across a broad portfolio of data and reporting capabilities supporting management, internal and regulatory reporting needs. 

The scope of reporting requirements includes Shared National Credit (SNC) regulatory reporting; Risk management reporting, Tax Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reporting; and Finance reporting solutions built on Power BI. The role will coordinate testing across source systems, data ingestion, data models, simplified views, consumer lenses, mappings, interfaces, and downstream reports. 

This role will formalize a practical testing operating model for the workstream and provide day-to-day leadership for test preparation, execution, evidence, defect governance, reporting, and stakeholder coordination. The strongest candidate will combine regulatory-reporting and data-testing experience with the ability to create structure quickly, challenge incomplete requirements, reconcile outputs across complex data flows and drive defects to closure across local and globally distributed teams. 

About the department:

ING Americas Technology supports local business delivery while operating within ING's global technology model. The Finance, Risk and Tax workstream brings together U.S. Finance, Risk, Tax, Data, Architecture, Engineering, Technology Risk, Testing and global delivery teams to define, source, map, test and deliver the data and reporting capabilities required for the future U.S. operating model. 

The team coordinates U.S. reporting requirements and acceptance criteria with downstream reporting solutions such as Power BI. The Test Lead will work closely with business report owners, business analysts, data specialists, developers, platform teams and vendors to create a consistent, traceable and audit-ready approach across the workstream. 

Responsibilities:

As a Test Lead, you will be responsible for:

• Define and implement a risk-based, end-to-end testing strategy and operating model for Finance, Risk and Tax reporting deliverables. 
• Create and maintain the integrated test plan, scope, schedule, entry and exit criteria, roles and responsibilities, environments, data needs, dependencies, evidence standards and reporting cadence. 
• Coordinate system integration testing, data validation, end-to-end testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, dry runs, and business sign-off activities across the workstream. 
• Translate business requirements, reporting rules, business requirement documents, source-to-target mappings and acceptance criteria into clear test scenarios, test cases, and expected results. 
• Validate data completeness, accuracy, lineage, transformation logic, aggregation, reconciliation and report presentation from systems of record through ingestion, FRIDA data models and views, consumer lenses and downstream reporting tools. 
• Lead testing for SNC regulatory reporting, including validation of critical data elements, product and data-pattern coverage, data mappings, report outputs and supporting evidence. 
• Lead testing for Risk management reports, including Local Sector RAS and Country Risk reporting, with validation of calculations, thresholds, filters, dimensions, aggregation levels, drill-down behavior and Power BI outputs against approved requirements and source data. 
• Lead testing for Tax Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet reporting, including validation of mapping rules, calculations, state or entity-level outputs, reconciliations and business acceptance. 
• Coordinate testing of Finance reports and semantic models, including product-by-product data coverage and reconciliation to agreed source and accounting information. 
• Establish test data requirements and coordinate the preparation, refresh, masking, access, and availability of representative data across test environments. 
• Ensure coverage of positive, negative, boundary, exception, historical, late-adjustment and data-quality scenarios, including missing, duplicate, inconsistent or rejected records. 
• Own defect governance, including defect logging, severity and priority alignment, triage, assignment, aging, retesting, closure, root-cause visibility and escalation of risks to delivery or regulatory readiness. 
• Maintain execution and defect records in Azure DevOps or approved workstream tooling, ensuring test cases, results, evidence, defects, requirements and approvals remain traceable. 
• Facilitate daily test coordination, defect triage and readiness reviews across business, data, engineering, reporting, vendor and global platform stakeholders. 
• Produce concise testing dashboards and governance updates that clearly distinguish planned, executed, passed, failed, blocked and deferred tests; open defects; decisions required; residual risks; and readiness for sign-off. 
• Confirm that non-functional and control requirements are tested where applicable, including access, security, auditability, retention, resilience, monitoring, data-download controls and operational support readiness. 
• Support production-readiness activities, including dress rehearsals, cutover validation, initial reporting cycles, aftercare, control evidence and handover to business and technology owners. 
• Coach analysts, developers and business testers on test-case quality, evidence expectations, defect documentation and consistent execution practices. 

Qualifications and Competencies

• 7+ years of software testing, data testing, quality assurance or test management experience, including delivery of complex technology, data or regulatory-change initiatives in a large, matrixed organization. 
• Demonstrated experience leading testing for Finance, Risk, Tax, regulatory reporting, management information or other data-intensive reporting capabilities within financial services. 
• Additional Automation Skills will be a plus:
  • Strong Playwright experience
  • Proven experience building an automation framework from scratch using Playwright.
  • Strong programming skills in python, TypeScript or JavaScript.
  • Experience automating web applications, APIs, and end-to-end business processes.
  • Hands-on experience with REST API testing using Postman, Playwright, or similar tools.
  • Experience with Git, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end data flows, including source systems, ETL or ingestion, data models, transformation rules, data warehouses or marts, semantic layers and downstream reporting tools. 
• Hands-on experience designing test strategies, integrated test plans, scenarios, test cases, expected results, execution controls, traceability matrices, defect processes and test completion reports. 
• Strong data-validation and reconciliation skills, with the ability to compare source data, transformed datasets, calculations and report outputs and identify where discrepancies originate. 
• Experience testing data mappings, interfaces, batch files, APIs, business rules, calculations, aggregations, filters, thresholds, hierarchies, and report visualizations. 
• Strong defect-management experience, including severity assessment, triage facilitation, root-cause coordination, retesting, closure evidence, and risk-based escalation. 
• Experience coordinating business users, subject-matter experts, developers, data engineers, architects, platform teams and third-party vendors through SIT, UAT and end-to-end testing. 
• Ability to create a workable testing structure where processes, ownership, requirements or environments are still developing, while maintaining delivery momentum and control discipline. 
• Strong written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain data and testing issues to non-technical stakeholders and summarize readiness, defects and residual risks for senior stakeholders. 
• Strong documentation discipline and the ability to maintain clear, traceable, review-ready and audit-ready testing records and evidence. 
• Comfort operating in a regulated financial-services environment and handling sensitive financial, risk, tax and customer data. 
• Working knowledge of Agile and traditional delivery methods and test-management tools such as Azure DevOps Test Plans/Boards, Jira, ALM, qTest or comparable platforms. 
• Working knowledge of SQL or equivalent data-query techniques for validating datasets, transformations, and reconciliations. 
• Preferred: 
• Experience testing U.S. regulatory reports, particularly Shared National Credit (SNC), regulatory finance or risk reporting. 
• Experience with FRIDA or comparable enterprise Finance and Risk data platforms, including data models, simplified views, consumer lenses and controlled data consumption. 
• Experience with Power BI or comparable business-intelligence platforms. 
• Understanding Finance and accounting data, including inventory, general ledger, Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, product, counterparty and reference data. 
• Understanding credit-risk and management-information concepts such as exposure, risk-weighted assets, risk appetite thresholds, country risk, sector risk and credit-quality measures. 
• Experience validating critical data elements, source-to-target mappings, data lineage, data quality controls and reconciliations across multiple upstream systems and product types. 
• Experience planning or executing parallel runs, dry runs, regulatory submission rehearsals, reporting-cycle validation or production aftercare. 
• Experience with test automation or repeatable data-comparison approaches using SQL, Python, Power Query, Excel or comparable tools. 
• Familiarity with technology risk and control requirements for access, auditability, evidence retention, data downloads, security, resilience and operational readiness. 
• Relevant testing certifications such as ISTQB, Certified Software Test Professional, Agile testing certification or equivalent practical experience. 

Hourly Rate: $76-97

ING is a committed equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of diverse backgrounds and hire without regard to race, gender, religion, national origin, citizenship, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. We celebrate these differences and rely upon your unique perspective to innovate and seize new opportunities. Come as you are.

ING Bank does not have a commercial banking license in the U.S. and therefore not permitted to conduct a commercial banking business in the U.S. Through its wholly owned subsidiary ING Financial Services LLC, and its affiliates, it offers a full array of wholesale products such as commercial lending and a full range of FM products and services.