Responsibilities

• Leads or runs multiple phases of technical areas within a project or projects of moderate scope or complex assignments, responsible for a certain test area.
• Assures the project meets quality standards by providing technical guidance and vison in planning, designing, executing testing, and developing procedures relating to product quality.
•  Participates in formal reviews of business requirements and application designs and ensuring proper test coverage based on requirements and design specifications. Defines changes to processes or working instructions.
•  Refines requirements by talking to relevant business stakeholders and recommends strategies and methods to improve test plans and processes. Has an understanding of the overall test strategy.
•  Leads the test design plans, establishing the test scenarios and determines the entrance and exit criteria.
•  Creates systems and business relevant test cases using own in-depth technical analysis of functional specifications.
•  Determines the potential causes of problems and analyses multiple alternatives, risks, and benefits for a range of potential solutions.
•  Analyses and reports on overall test status and results, identifing issues and reporting to relevant stakeholders. Manages risks to the success of the project.
•  Identifies and manages the critical path of testing and ensures execution of project regression tasks. Defines regression tests for future projects and defines and co-ordinates product verification and validation.
•  Develops a network to support and add value to client engagements including company, clients and external professional networks.

Qualifications

•  Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
•  ISTQB Advanced
•  Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance

Skills

Essential:

1. 3-5 years’ experience  is Data focussed testing /analysis role
2. Financial services experience
3. Proficient in programming languages like Python and SQL
4. Experience designing test cases and SQL/python test scripts for data focussed projects
5. Manage and deliver tasks independently with minimum supervision or guidance
6. Experience working in Agile environment and using Jira
7. Prepare and present weekly status report to test manager and other project stakeholders

Good to have :

1. Transfer Agency knowledge
2. Test automation experience using python or sql stored procedures