Location: Newcastle

Working Pattern: Hybrid

Contract: Full Time, Permanent

Role Description

As an Analyst Tester you will work as part of a Delivery Team, facilitating the delivery of quality software by undertaking rigorous testing activities and providing accompanying documentation to support each release; to improve the quality of FNZ solutions, and to mitigate the risk of FNZ releasing defective business critical software to its clients.

The Analyst Tester is required to work closely and proactively with Analyst Developers and Solution Architects to implement quality and future proof functionality. There is an expectation that the Analyst Tester will learn about our application, our business and the industry we operate in as well the range of test tools and methodologies we use to support our business.

Specific Role Responsibilities

Develop and maintain a deep knowledge of the platform functionality and business processes related to a functional area

Understand and analyse business requirements to enable the design of detailed test requirements

Creation of clear, destructive, reusable and broad test cases that contain the appropriate level of detail

Draft and issue test plans, where appropriate

Plan and prioritise work for all incoming testing

Creating and maintaining appropriate test data

Perform test execution over FNZ solutions; ensuring the changes developed are to an acceptable standard by reviewing solutions and testing the changes end to end once the feature is available

Author reusable tests and conducting end to end system, regression and mis-use case testing as part of the production readiness process

Assist with user acceptance testing or other client support activities if required

Create and maintain test scripts in a test management tool, to a specified quality standard

Document and publish using a test management tool, all test results to a defined standard

Document and report issues arising from testing in a timely manner, and manage their resolution and tracking

Raise, validate and re-test defects

Participate in defect triage meetings as directed

Provide estimates of the testing effort to the Delivery Manager as required

Provide regular and timely updates to the Delivery Manager on progress to plan as well as key risk and issues

Issue testing status and completion reports to project teams and clients, and be able to present an overview of testing done to clients and to internal release boards as required

Be an active member of the test community within FNZ, contributing to team sessions and sharing best practice and lessons learnt

Assist in the ongoing development and improvement of testing standards and procedures across the company

Help mentor more junior members of the testing team

Proactively identify technical issues (environmental, coding and testing) that may impede test progress to enable early resolution of said technical issues

Maintain high standards regarding written and verbal communication to ensure that information is clearly and concisely documented and appropriately disseminated

Support process improvement initiatives and identify new process improvements.

Essential experience

Minimum 2 years testing experience incorporating several aspects of System testing, Regression testing, Load and Performance testing, UAT and OAT

Knowledge and awareness of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Lifecycle (STLC)

Experience of working with different development methodologies e.g. Kanban, Scrum

Experience of working with test management tools (such as Jira) for test planning, executing and reporting

Confident, and able to take initiative given client and delivery focused environment

Excellent organisational, administration and time management skills

Good team communication skills, confident in dealing with internal and external clients

Highly developed written and oral communication skills

Superior analytical thinking and problem solving.

Non-essential experience

Experience of working within the Financial Services sector

A background in automated testing (while the role is predominantly manual testing we are keen to hear from candidates with a background and/or enthusiasm in automated testing as we aim to roll this out more)

Experience of training/mentoring junior members of a testing team

Knowledge of SQL.

Non-essential Education

ISEB/ISQTB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing is desirable.

Application Deadline:
Applications close on 14/02/2025. However, we encourage early applications, as we may begin reviewing candidates and scheduling interviews before the deadline. Don’t miss the opportunity to be considered for this exciting role.

We look forward to hearing from you!

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.