Brussels Region, Belgium
Experienced Test Lead, Project Manager, and Tribe Delegate (Asset Owner) with deep experience in financial services and health insurance. I deliver high‑value business outcomes while proactively managing risk and ensuring compliance in close partnership with CISO and IRM teams. I also leverage AI‑driven solutions to accelerate the testing lifecycle and elevate quality assurance across the stack. 🤖 AI-Driven Testing – Applying AI to accelerate test design, execution, and lifecycle optimization. ⚙️ Test Automation & CI/CD Integration – Building automated test suites and integrating with DevOps pipelines. 🌐 Global Test Strategy & Governance – Defining and executing a unified test vision aligned with business and technology goals. 👥 Leadership & Mentorship – Coaching engineers, test leads, and PMs to build high-performing, risk-aware teams. 📈 Project & Program Management – Leading large-scale initiatives (GDPR, MiFID, MFA, cloud migration, AI implementation) from planning to production. 🛡️ Risk & Compliance Management – Maintaining IT controls, access governance, and NPA handling for regulatory compliance. ☁️ Cloud Migration & Modernization – Driving secure, compliant transitions to cloud environments. 🔍 Monitoring & Observability – Deploying end-to-end monitoring across front-end, middleware, and backend for proactive issue detection. 🔒 Data Masking & Synthetic Data – Ensuring secure test data strategies for compliance and quality assurance.
Lead the strategic adoption of AI within the testing lifecycle to accelerate delivery, ensure compliance, and enhance automation maturity across enterprise programs. 🤖 AI-Powered Test Documentation: Implement AI solutions to generate test cases, scripts, and evidence rapidly, improving traceability and reducing manual effort. 📊 Governance & Vision: Define and execute a Global Test Vision for AI adoption, establish KPIs, and monitor progress to deliver measurable improvements. 👩🏫 Mentorship: Coach engineers, test leads, and PMs on AI tools, automation best practices, and compliance-driven testing methodologies. 🔗 Cross-Functional Leadership: Act as a liaison between divisions, QA community, DevOps, and Risk teams, ensuring alignment on AI-driven strategies and compliance objectives.
🔧 Test Strategy Development: Shaping and evolving end-to-end testing strategies at both division and enterprise levels, ensuring alignment with business objectives and IT roadmaps. 👥 Team Leadership & Community Management: Leading and mentoring testing teams through a strong Community of Practice, equipping them with the skills, tools, and support needed to deliver quality at scale. ⚙️ Process Improvement & Innovation: Driving continuous improvements in testing processes to enhance delivery efficiency, scalability, and software quality across programs and squads. 🗂️ Comprehensive Test Planning: Collaborating closely with project managers, product owners, and stakeholders to define robust and risk-based test plans across the full SDLC. 🛠️ Tooling Strategy & Implementation: Evaluating and deploying the right tools and frameworks to support automation, reporting, and test lifecycle management—enabling smarter and faster delivery. ✅ Quality Assurance Governance: Ensuring all testing activities adhere to QA best practices and industry standards, supporting business-critical quality objectives. ⚠️ Risk Management in Testing: Identifying and mitigating risks throughout the testing process through proactive planning, early defect detection, and impact analysis. 📚 Training & Capability Building: Leading the training and continuous development of testing teams on new methodologies, tools, and industry trends to ensure a future-ready workforce. 🌐 Test Environment Management (One TEM): Responsible for Test Environment Management (TEM) at the division level, ensuring environment stability, availability, and operational excellence. I also ensure alignment of TEM best practices between the Test Center of Excellence (TCoE), division-level TEM, and tribe-level TEM teams—fostering a unified and scalable approach across the organization.
Strategic Planning: Developed and executed test automation strategies aligned with overall IT division goals. Product Ownership: Led the development and enhancement of test automation products, ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs and business objectives. Requirement Analysis: Collaborated with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements for test automation initiatives. Team Leadership: Managed a team of test automation engineers, providing guidance and support to ensure high-quality deliverables. Tool Selection and Implementation: Evaluated, selected, and implemented appropriate test automation tools and frameworks to optimize testing processes. Process Optimization: Implemented best practices and streamlined processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness of test automation efforts. Quality Assurance: Ensured the quality of software products through rigorous testing and continuous improvement of automated testing suites. Cross-functional Collaboration: Worked closely with development, QA, and other cross-functional teams to integrate test automation into the software development lifecycle. Performance Monitoring* Monitored and reported on the performance of automated tests, identifying areas for improvement and optimization.
Ensuring IT assets are managed, are protected, their value is fully exploited and proper confidentiality, integrity and availability are applied. A common, consistent understanding of assets & information, how important, sensitive and accurate it is, how the bank depends on it, and who is responsible. Ensure that ING BE can use the information to operate transparently and accountably. Information risks : - Inappropriate access, disclosure of, protectively marked use of personal data; - Internal threat, external parties accessing information illegally and exposing it externally; - Information loss - during transfer, or as a result of business change; - Loss of access to information; - Loss of continuity, use information in the way required when needed; - Poor quality of information and poor quality assurance; - Poor change management - business needs change, systems change, information risk appetite changes, keep the policies and processes aligned. Responsibilities : - Lead a culture that values, protects the information; - Know the information the asset holds, and what is transferred; - Know who has access, ensure the use is monitored; - Understand and address risks, ensure data loss incidents are managed; - Ensure asset is used for the public good, responding to access requests; - Contribute to a favorable IT Risk score for Infrastructure & platforms; - iRisk overdues in collaboration with SBO’s; - Approvals risk documents; NPA reviews and usage reports; - Approvals SEM monitoring and IAM (RBAC); - Follow-up spot checks IRM on applications ; Engineering/management profile : - Keeping and creating a culture that values and protects the applications; - Make sure people use the information rules and are aware of the consequences of non-compliance. - Understand and address risks to management, squads, PO’s and CL’s; - Align with SBO’s and IRM to ensure follow-up of the risk documents so they get approved; - Keep the bank’s risk score under control.
- Build and Maintain the Infrastructure BE Roadmap and provide visibility to the top management on the on-going and future initiatives - Automation and management of the backlog of the different squads at epic and feature level - Management of epics and features and implementation of a good task slicing (route24, reliability, automation, run the it landscape, move data center to IPC) - Management and scheduling of the various ceremonies weekly portfolio meeting, performance wall, quarterly QBR Day, retro session - Identification of cross tribes/sqauds dependencies and analyze corelation and impact between the different projects - Management of different projects (multifactor authentication implementation, RCEC cleaning, automation & simplify Infra process,...) - Handling of the different cross Tribes interactions -...
- Implementation of Monitoring and continuous test automation on the new Front End application (OneApp mobile/ Oneweb) - People Management - Test automation implementation and framework improvement/support (selenium CATS/CRAFT/CHIMP...) - Performance testing implementation (JMeter / Load Runner) - E2E Test SPOC Unite §BE/NL) Program - Cross Tribe Test strategy definition
Test Coordinator for mainframe and web application (Domain assurability) •SPOC between Business Department and DI Department for the acceptance testing • Creation of Test Plan and Test Startegy •Task Coordination for the Test Support and test Engineer •Test Coordination •Test of different web and mainframe application. •Draftings of test Campaign (Quality Center) •Load testing (Load Runner/HP tools) •Automation testing with Quick Test Professional •Draftings of test acceptance contract for the different project •Follow up of the bugs found in the softwares •Administration of JIRA Application and QC (bug tracking tools) •Task coordination for the test support •Testing of web applic. •Testing of mainframe applic. •Load test and test automation (HP tools) •Network administration of a test laboratory (using VMWare images of different OS) •Devlopment of web applcation (php, html, css, javascript...) •Devlopment VB6 application,c++,cobol, Unix bash,VBA,vbscript,ajax...) •Knowledge of the various operating system and Browser on the market •Administration of bug tracking tools : ->Quality Center 9,10 >Jira
Network administrator of a test laboratory Developer VB6 Test Coordinator for Web application ...
Network administration of a Test lab (VMWare image) + VB6 development
IT consultant at AWB Belgium