Headoffice Düsseldorf

The future looks like you

With over 1,300 stores in 17 European countries and more than 25,000 employees, C&A is one of Europe’s leading fashion retailers. Every day, C&A welcomes millions of visitors to its stores in Europe and to its online shop. C&A offers quality and long-lasting fashion at affordable prices for
the many. We are building on more than 180 years of experience in the fashion industry and continuously modernize the company to become an omnichannel fashion retailer.

We’re looking for a hands‑on Test Manager to own validation across complex, integrated platforms. You will define and run the test strategy, orchestrate test data & environments, drive defect triage, and provide crisp, risk‑based quality reporting to leadership. Success means faster, safer releases with measurable improvements in defect leakage, cycle time, coverage, and business readiness.

Your responsibilities

• Aligning with Business Process Owners and SI/partners on scope, readiness, and sign‑off; surface quality risks with clear business impact.
• Recommend a risk‑based test strategy; align entry/exit criteria, Definition of Ready/Done, and sign‑off checkpoints to the testing coordinator.
• Build and maintain the test suite (process variants, integrations, controls, non‑functionals).
• Align with Business Process Owners, Engineering Leadership and SI/partners on scope, readiness, and sign‑off, surface quality risks with clear business impact.
• Establish test KPIs (coverage, pass rate, severity mix, MTTR, leakage) and cadence for reporting to PMO and sponsors.
• Test Status consolidation and escalation on Tech Program Level
• Create, update and execute test manual and automated test cases
• Plan, schedule, and run test cycles; coordinate workstream/system teams and business SMEs for execution and sign‑off with the testing coordinator.
• Lead defect management & triage (severity, ownership, SLA, root cause, retest) and drive cross‑team resolution to closure.
• Ensure traceability from business requirements → test scenarios → evidence → acceptance decisions.
• Coordinate the test data strategy (synthetic vs. masked production, provisioning, refresh, privacy/compliance) and data readiness per cycle.
• Integrate non‑functional testing (performance, security/authorization, failover, batch/throughput, usability).

What you bring

• 6–10+ years in testing/QA with 3+ years managing test cycles across multi‑system programs.
• Proven experience orchestrating SIT/E2E/UAT with partners and business teams; strong defect triage leadership.
• Deep understanding of business process value streams (O2C, P2P, H2R, R2R) and integration points (APIs, middleware, jobs).
• Strong command of test management & ALM tools and requirements traceability practices.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and risk reporting to senior leadership.
• SAP ecosystem (e.g., S/4HANA, BW/Analytics, CPI/PO), plus POS/e‑commerce, selling and logistics.
• Performance/security testing coordination; data masking/privacy controls.
• Bachelor’s in computer science/engineering/information systems or related field (or equivalent experience).
• ISTQB/TMMi, SAFe/Agile certifications a plus.

What we offer

This is an opportunity for you to join us on a truly exciting transformation journey, where you’ll be able to leave footprints that last and contribute significantly to our vision. As well as knowing that you played a key part in the evolution of one of Europe’s most recognizable retail brands, you will also enjoy:

• Countless learning and development opportunities via our C&A academy
• Access to a Partner Discount Scheme
• An employee discount of 20% in C&A stores
• 30 days' vacation
• Corporate pension scheme
• Mental health and wellness program
• An exciting job in an international and inspirational working environment
• A positive working atmosphere and a talented team with an open feedback culture