Excel in an Associate to provide Business Testing Analysis for the Market Operations Platform Transformations at a globally innovative bank that cherishes creativity and excellence 

Job Summary:

As an Associate to provide Business Testing Analysis for the Market Operations Platform Transformations; you have the opportunity to display flexibility in a cross business, cross functional project-based environment. While handling multiple projects & manage workstreams to meet stakeholder expectations. Support the strategic roll out of an automated testing solution. We value your expertise to provide Testing experience on other LOB’s and support transformational Global initiatives within Market Ops Platform Transformation team. While building and nurturing effective and lasting relationships with colleagues, team members and stakeholders across multiple business lines and global locations As an Associate in Business Testing Analysis work collaboratively and with effective influencing skills to achieve positive outcomes. Ability to understand own role and those of other team members and recognize at times the need for flexibility within roles to achieve the project and organizational objectives. Be a Self-starter with ability to work with the minimum of supervision on day-to-day activities. Also work on a hands-on basis and not limit oneself to only tracking and reporting milestones.

 

 Job Responsibilities: 

Manage End-to-End UAT from planning, test scripting, test execution, defect management and user sign offs. Understand, analyze and clearly articulate to wider team including Application Development (AD), Product, Operations and Quality Assurance (QA) groups. Maintain documentation - test strategy, test plan, entry control and exit control as per the best practice process followed within the team. Execute the scenarios and capture the testing progress in qTest / JIRA. Identify the defects / gaps and track to closure. Track testing progress and ensure deadlines are met appropriately by working closely with AD team.  Assist with Business Process Design where required to capture the impact of technology on current processes. Understand and contribute to Business Analysis if required by the program. Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet end objectives. Proactively communicate project status, issues & risks to management and all stakeholders Motivate team members and leading by example to engage in high standards of quality. Articulate issues and risks to management via various project management tools like RAID, Scorecards, etc

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills: 

Graduate or Postgraduate with minimum 5 years of experience working in the financial industry. Relevant testing experience within the Financial Services industry supporting multiple LOB’s delivering in a highly complex and high-volume environment. Very strong communication skills with the ability to provide clear and succinct verbal updates on their work to team members, colleagues, senior leads, executives, and clients. Expertise in Agile project delivery methodology and skills to learn and work with evolving methodologies. Experienced in testing processes to define requirements, document user stories and test scripts through to test execution. Excellent attention to detail so errors can be prevented, and redundancies / opportunities highlighted.  Strong organizational skills – ability to dynamically manage and oversee critical testing tasks accurately and to tight deadlines. Experience with Test automation using Selenium, QTP, Cypress, or any other technology, ability to strategize test automation plans in partnership with Tech teams. Experienced in using Business Driven Development / Test Driven Development test methodology or test case automation.  Testing experience required. Skilled at problem solving, ability to scope and provide structure to complex issues, rapidly learn unfamiliar processes, and provide insightful and timely remediation. Ability to analyze and document complex current state vs future state processes. Ability to use effective systemic data driven reporting to support program reporting. Advanced numeracy and Microsoft skills. Ability to liaise effectively between lines of business with empathy and understanding to achieve the common and strategic goal as a team. Ability to articulate Program requirements, demo functionality to end users and coordinate UAT sign offs. Actively contributes to program updates, Project, and team meetings.

 Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills: 

Understanding of Equity Derivatives Product Workflows and trade lifecycle is preferred. Good understanding Equity products and Equities trade lifecycle. Hands-on experience with JIRA & Confluence will be an added advantage. Worked in Equities, CIB business function, Global Markets, Middle Office or Security Services. Business Analysis skills, Test Automation skills, Agile methodology skills, Project / Agile methodology Qualification