Test Analyst - Financial / Banking - Whilst not essential preferred candidates will have some Financial experience and ideally a strong Technical Background.
Job Overview
The primary responsibility of the role is to work within the QA team and liaise with the Development and Operations Groups as a systems tester ensuring that the company's releases, upgrades and bespoke projects are functionally tested to a high standard ensuring a reliable and quality product is delivered to clients. A small portion of the analyst's time will also be spent providing testing guidance and support to clients and third party vendors.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Design, in conjunction with the head of QA and other team members, automated test scripts and scenarios as well as implement and monitor/analyse the results.
- Analyse application of testing methodologies and phases, change requirements and prepare test cases, data and expected results
- Scope and design regression testing (manual & automated)
- Monitor and report testing of large systems
- Automation of Front End testing using Playwright with JavaScript/Typescript.
- Experience in creating a QA test suite from scratch for a client portal.
- Experience in automating tests and report generation.
- Create and maintain strong working relationships, with internal departments and business groups
- Take ownership of delegated tasks and see things through to completion
- Support the QA team in implementation of strategic solutions, including test automation
- Ensure and maintain quality delivery of all releases
- Liaise with technical and business analysts on requirements and solution definition
- Act as test lead for small projects
- Defect and issue management. Escalation as appropriate
- Provide testing support and guidance for all team members
- Attend team progress meetings and provide task progress updates to the group
- Provide supporting documentation where appropriate
Required Skills/Experience
- Experience of Unix/Linux environments
- Python & scripting knowledge
- Knowledge of relational databases and SQL
- Demonstrable experience of testing complex software solutions and understanding of the full project lifecycle experience
- Experience in testing Finance Markets applications, including Cash Equities
- Experienced with Playwright using JavaScript/Typescript
- Strong analytical skills combined with a structured methodical and hands-on approach with passionate attention to detail
- Demonstrate good judgement in solving problems as well as identifying problems in advance, and proposing solutions
- Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to multi-task, effectively prioritising multiple objectives and initiatives and execute tasks within a dynamic environment
- Willingness to take ownership of tasks and deliver a finished piece of work.
- Demonstrate a logical thought process and able to work accurately under pressure
- Self-starter and able to work well within a close-knit team environment
Desirable
- ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Certified
- Business knowledge of Front, Middle and or Back Office systems
- Finance Market Regulations and Reporting Rules
- Knowledge and understanding of the FIX protocol
- Experience in Derivatives, Asset management, Bonds