• Own and enforce functional testing standards across products and releases supporting Client Services delivery, including defining test approach, scope, entry/exit criteria, and release readiness gates. • Plan, execute, and manage functional testing for releases, covering test scheduling, environment readiness, test data setup, and daily progress reporting. • Develop and maintain test artifacts including test plans, test cases, and test scripts (manual and automated) with strong coverage of CPG trade funds management workflows. • Partner with Client Services to support client-facing testing activities, including UAT planning, test evidence collection, defect triage, and release notes validation, ensuring delivered functionality meets contractual and business expectations. • Define and review requirements by analyzing user stories and functional specifications early to identify gaps or ambiguities and ensure testable, measurable requirements. • Collaborate with Product and Engineering to translate requirements into clear, testable acceptance criteria, validating edge cases common in trade funds (timing, eligibility, hierarchy, customer/channel rules, calculations). • Lead test automation initiatives by implementing and evolving UI/API test suites and integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to protect critical trade funds workflows and reduce regression risk. • Drive defect resolution, owning triage and prioritization with stakeholders, providing clear reproduction steps and impact analysis, verifying fixes, and performing root-cause analysis using Jira (or similar) to prevent recurrence.