Experienced test manager for a business-critical IT project

Are you passionate about applying your analytical skills at the interface between business and IT, and would you like to play a central role in modernizing the Tax Administration's primary case handling system? We are seeking a steering test manager, who will be responsible for the overall test governance and for ensuring that the supplier conducts sufficient and well-documented testing.

Be part of building the tax authority of the future

SKAT Ligning is the primary case handling system for control and determination of taxes and VAT for citizens, businesses, companies, etc. It is therefore a highly business-critical legacy system, which will be replaced by a modern standard case-handling solution. The modernization is conducted in four scoped projects together with the Tax Administration (Skattestyrelsen) towards 2030:

• Project 1 will be completed in 2026 with the rollout of the ESDH solution Sagsportalen to a smaller user group.
• Project 2 implements integrations between Sagsportalen and central tax systems.
• Project 3 starts in 2027 with the implementation of Sagsportalen for all users of SKAT Ligning.
• In Project 4 SKAT Ligning is closed, and historical databases are established.

About the position

You will in the first instance be the steering test manager for Project 2, which is in the analysis phase with expected transition to the implementation phase in early 2027. In due course there will also be tasks in Project 3.

Your primary tasks will be to

• Coordinate, manage and challenge the subcontractor’s test work.
• Continuously assess whether the supplier’s test strategy, test design, test cases, test coverage, test results and validation reports actually provide sufficient assurance.
• Actively ensure that defects, missing test coverage and quality risks are identified, followed up and closed – and be able to escalate when quality or progress is not satisfactory.
• Create transparency about test status, the defect picture, quality risks and readiness as the basis for project decisions and Go/No-Go.
• Plan upcoming test activities, including environments, data, resources, dependencies and involvement of relevant stakeholders.

You will join a dedicated project team currently consisting of more than 10 employees, including a project manager, business analysts, a project consultant, solution architects, system owners, etc. The project is anchored in a steering group at the deputy director level and has close collaboration with the other modernization projects.

You will also have a close collaboration with a test manager who handles the management of test activities within operations (i.e., bug fixes and minor further development) for Sagsportalen.

About you

You presumably have a university-level degree complemented by a certification as a test manager corresponding to Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist, ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level Agile Tester (CTFL-AT), ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL), as well as relevant experience from digital transformation projects.

Additionally, emphasis is placed on your ability to

• Build a well-functioning collaboration with the supplier's test organization and project management, while the person maintains the customer's requirements for quality and documentation.
• Create collaboration across business, development/supplier, architecture, operations and other project tracks.
• Be comfortable with both dialogue, facilitation, constructive challenge and conflict, because the role requires you to get the supplier to change course without necessarily having formal management authority.

You are familiar with the complexity of public authorities or private organizations subject to high regulatory requirements, and you have knowledge of implementing standard solutions as well as vendor management.

We offer

You will be employed in the SKAT Ligning Modernization office, which in close collaboration with the neighboring SKAT Ligning office is responsible for the four modernization projects. The two offices together have about 20 employees who work closely in the ongoing projects across the offices. The SKAT Ligning Modernization office has the primary responsibility for Project 2, which implements integrations between the new system Sagsportalen and central domain systems.

In the long run, the plan is that the office will also be responsible for Project 4. As a test manager you will have tasks that cross the two offices, and in practice you will have close collaboration with employees and managers in both offices in day-to-day work. In both offices we value wellbeing and flexibility. We are a good mix of experienced and younger profiles who value cross-cutting collaboration and good collegial relations highly.

Therefore we also organize, among other things, joint office events to support good collaboration – both professionally and socially.

Contact and employment terms

Send an application, CV, transcripts and any additional material via the link “Apply for the position” no later than 26 October 2026. The position is available for immediate appointment. We will conduct interviews on an ongoing basis.

You are welcome to contact the Office Head Emil Rønnow Sørensen at telephone 72 38 98 40 or on behalf of Office Head Amalie Iversen at telephone 72 37 18 78, if you want to hear more about the position (feel free to send an SMS and arrange a time for a call). Note: Due to autumn holidays, Emil cannot be contacted in the period 9-20 October, and Amalie cannot be contacted in the period 9-14 October.

We expect to use personality profiling and a logical test in the recruitment process, and a criminal record check will be obtained prior to appointment.

You can expect a interview process where you meet the office head, representatives from the project team and the steering group leadership.

You will be employed under the applicable collective agreement for academics in the state (AC), the collective agreement for clerical workers, laboratory technicians and IT employees (HK) or the collective agreement for professionals (DTS) in the Ministry of Taxation and Growth.

The employment area is the Ministry of Taxation and Growth with affiliated institutions. The workplace is the address of the Agency for Development and Simplification at Osvald Helmuths Vej 4, 2000 Frederiksberg.

Application deadline: 26 October 2026

Location: Osvald Helmuths Vej 4, 2000 Frederiksberg