Test Data Management Team Lead - M&T Bank

Overview

Responsible for leading the enterprise Test Data Management (TDM) and Quality Engineering Practice, including strategy, standards, governance, tooling, implementation frameworks, automation enablement, and operational excellence. Provides technical and people leadership for a team consisting of Lead Engineers, Senior Engineers, Engineers, and contract resources supporting enterprise testing, automation, and test data management capabilities.

Serves as the organizational leader for enterprise testing platforms, frameworks, automation standards, and test data services. Responsible for establishing and driving adoption of best practices, reusable patterns, engineering standards, and implementation methodologies utilizing technologies such as Delphix, SmartBear Zephyr, Playwright, Selenium, Cucumber, Postman, GitLab, and GitLab CI/CD.

Partners closely with Application Development, Architecture, DevOps, Infrastructure, Information Security, Risk, Compliance, Product, and Delivery teams to improve software quality, accelerate delivery, reduce testing costs, and ensure scalable, secure, compliant, and automated testing capabilities across the enterprise.

Completes work in accordance with enterprise technology, risk, security, and regulatory standards while fostering a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, engineering excellence, operational maturity, and quality ownership. This role combines strategic leadership, people management, technology oversight, and hands-on expertise to advance enterprise testing and Test Data Management capabilities. The structure and responsibilities are adapted from the existing TDM Lead Engineer role while expanding the scope to include people leadership and testing practice ownership

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the enterprise Test Data Management and Quality Engineering Practice organization, providing both technical leadership and people management.
• Develop and execute the strategic roadmap for enterprise testing capabilities, automation platforms, test data management services, and quality engineering practices.
• Manage a team of Lead Engineers, Senior Engineers, Engineers, and contractor resources, including hiring, coaching, mentoring, career development, performance management, succession planning, and resource allocation.
• Establish, maintain, and govern enterprise testing standards, implementation patterns, reusable frameworks, methodologies, and best practices.
• Provide strategic and technical oversight for Test Data Management platforms, including Delphix virtualization, data masking, self-service provisioning, synthetic data strategies, and test data lifecycle management.

Define and maintain enterprise testing frameworks supporting:

• Functional Testing
• API Testing
• Integration Testing
• End-to-End Testing
• Regression Testing