Business Execution Senior Manager-Payments User Acceptance

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a senior level individual contributor to serve as Business Testing Governance Leaderwithin the Wealth & Investment Management (WIM) Chief Product Office. This role owns the strategy, standards, and end-to-end test quality across WIM product teams. The mission is to deliver consistent, risk-aware, and efficient testing that accelerates time-to-market without sacrificing quality-through clear standards, rigorous pre-release evidence reviews, disciplined release gating, and continuous optimization of testing practices, including automation and shift-left approaches.
Success will be measured by improved production stability, faster delivery cycles with stronger coverage, sustainable automation, and audit-ready test evidence.
In this role, you will:
1. Establish and Maintain Testing Standards

• Define and continuously evolve comprehensive testing standards across WIM product teams.
• Govern exceptions and waivers, ensuring standards adapt based on outcomes, evidence, and emerging risks.
• Drive adoption of testing tools and best practices across all product teams.

2. Build a Distributed Testing Governance Model

• Own end-to-end accountability for test quality outcomes across all WIM product teams.
• Design and operate a distributed governance model by appointing Test Quality Leads within each product team as the execution arm of centralized standards.
• Ensure consistent execution of test planning, coverage validation, non-functional testing, evidence management, regression maintenance, automation prioritization, and post-release defect analysis through these delegated leads.

3. Gatekeep Release Readiness

• Review test plans, results, and evidence to confirm compliance with standards and adequate end-to-end coverage.
• Require concise testing risk summaries for release tollgates and leadership sign-off.
• Enforce compliance and pause launches when minimum standards are not met.

4. Drive Testing Optimization and Automation

• Own strategic roadmap to shift testing left and expand automation for faster cycles and in-sprint regression.
• Build and execute business cases for automation, tooling, test data, and environments.
• Partner with Product and Technology teams to reduce test cycle time and production incidents.
• Champion GenAI-enabled solutions to improve test coverage, acceptance criteria quality, and automated testing.
• Maintain dashboards and metrics on standards adherence, test coverage, defect trends, and residual risk; publish insights to leadership.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Proven record of transforming test processes, improving test quality, optimizing workflows, and leveraging best-in-class test management and automation solutions.
• Deep understanding of wealth management products, services, and regulatory landscape.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence at senior levels and drive cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience leading Agile Product and/or Technology Quality teams.
• Experience working closely with both Business (Product/UAT) and Technology teams to optimize end-to-end quality processes.
• Familiarity with GenAI applications in testing and requirements quality.

Job Expectations:

• This position is subject to FINRA background screening requirements. Candidates must successfully complete and pass a background check prior to hire. In accordance with FINRA rules, individuals who are subject to statutory disqualification are not eligible to be associated with a FINRA-registered broker-dealer. Successful candidates must also meet and comply with ongoing regulatory obligations, which include periodic screening and mandatory reporting of certain incidents.
• Specific compliance policies may apply regarding outside activities or personal investing; affected employees will be expected to provide information to the Wells Fargo Personal Account Dealing Team and abide by applicable policy requirements if hired. Information will be shared about expectations during the recruitment process
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

Pay Range
Reflected is the base pay range offered for this position. Pay may vary depending on factors including but not limited to demonstrated examples of prior performance, skills, experience, or work location. Employees may also be eligible for incentive opportunities.
$139,000.00 - $239,000.00
Benefits
Wells Fargo provides eligible employees with a comprehensive set of benefits, many of which are listed below. Visit Benefits - Wells Fargo Jobs for an overview of the following benefit plans and programs offered to employees.

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement

Posting End Date:
5 May 2026
* Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
We Value Equal Opportunity
Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.
Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit's risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.
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