Test Lead - Finance, Risk Tax CONTRACTOR

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.

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.

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…