Senior Manager, Testing and Migrations, Global Platforms, GTB

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Senior Manager, Testing and Migrations, Global Payment Platforms, GTB - Toronto, ON

Requisition

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Global Transaction Banking

Global Transaction Banking (GTB) is the payments and transaction engine of Scotiabank. We support Small Business, Commercial and Corporate clients with effective treasury management solutions coupled with a best‑class service model, making it easy for clients to do business with us.

As businesses build their digital capabilities and transform their operating models, their payment needs are evolving too. Boasting a unique global footprint, GTB’s comprehensive suite of innovative banking solutions help our business clients generate operational efficiencies, streamline and simplify payments, improve working capital performance, and mitigate financial risk.

At Scotiabank, we embrace your strengths, ideas, and ambitions. GTB is a fast‑growing team with a focus on the Americas, particularly Canada, the U.S., Mexico, and we are seeking top tier talent to complement our organization.

Purpose Contributes to the overall success of Global Transaction Banking globally, ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensure all activities conducted follow governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

The Senior Manager, Testing and Migrations plays a mission‑critical role in Scotiabank’s High Value Payments Modernization (HVPM) Program, responsible for leading end‑to‑end testing strategy, orchestration, and execution across multiple labs, platforms, and jurisdictions. This leader drives the migration roadmap from legacy BESS‑based architectures toward APS/Finacle‑aligned modern platforms, ensuring stability, operational readiness, regulatory compliance, and seamless client impact.

The role requires deep expertise in wire payments, SWIFT/Fedwire workflows, Cash application patterns, and a strong command of complex multistep cutovers, parallel run strategies, and cross-border operational change.

• Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Define, own, and maintain the enterprise testing strategy for HVPM—including system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), E2E flows, performance testing, and regression suites—aligned to crosslab roadmap dependencies.
• Oversee test environment planning and readiness; resolve constraints highlighted in Steerco updates.
• Supporting the executive business case to obtain project approval.
• Partner with Technology, Business, and delivery lab leadership to ensure testing milestones are met and quality standards enforced.
• Lead the design and delivery of cutover and migration plans for high value payment flows across Canada and the U.S.
• Manage migration rehearsals, parallel run approaches, reconciliation validation, and volume ramp up plans.
• Drive alignment across Operations, Technology, Finance, Architecture, Compliance, and Risk partners to ensure readiness for each release.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Lab Leads, and HVPM governance bodies to sequence testing and migration activities within program roadmaps.
• Identify risks (environment, data, vendor readiness, cross border dependencies), maintain RAID items, and track mitigation progress through governance forums.
• Develop clear, consumable communication for frontline operations and partner teams during migration events and system changes.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day‑to‑day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day‑to‑day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work…