Senior QA Manual Engineer

Project Description:

• Treasury Technology supports and delivers solutions for key functions in:
• Group Treasury - intra-day liquidity management, portfolio risk management, securitisation, analytics
• Treasury Finance - transfer pricing, regulatory liquidity reporting & hedge accounting
• WIB Finance - Official daily P&L reporting & attribution, validation & distribution of EOD rates
• The Senior Test Analyst role is required as the team: is experiencing a substantial uplift in volume and complexity of change across its application portfolio.
• Requires an equivalent uplift in its testing capability in resources and solutions to achieve its business quality assurance objectives.

Responsibilities:

• As a Senior Test Analyst, your main role will focus on engaging with a portfolio of programs and projects introducing change impacting Treasury Technology’s applications and their businesses.
• You’ll be accountable for:
• Integration, functional, non-functional & user acceptance testing
• Developing and maintaining collaborative working relations with Senior Business Analysts and our Business Partners to:
• Analyse user stories, use cases, requirements for validity and feasibility
• Validate the business acceptance criteria ie evidence required to sign-off the change
• Build up your business knowledge and apply that knowledge to risk/impact assessments and testing scope.
• Determine, build and execute a comprehensive suite of test cases, test scenarios and test scripts for all assigned projects/enhancements to deliver consistent and quality outcomes.
• Design and develop automation scripts when needed
• Document evidence of actual v’s expected results
• Provide regular updates on progress of allocated test designs and test cases to ensure testing deadlines are met
• Determining if test pass or fail, record findings, and analyse unexpected results.
• Provide detailed description of test cases that failed.
• Presenting testing outcomes to Business partners for their sign-off
• Owning and creating the test case traceability matrix.
• Automating testing processes where feasible.
• Contributing to the defect lifecycle – defect triage, retest and reporting
• Contributing to in-house testing standards and processes.
• Actively contribute to the Team’s testing framework, processes, methodologies, policies, standards and tools by participating in related brainstorming sessions, forums and workshops to ensure continuous improvement

Mandatory Skills Description:

• Experience of writing test plans and test cases in the database and data analytics spaces.
• Project delivery in Banking (preferably in Investment Banking)
• experience of integration, functional, non-functional & user acceptance testing
• Experience with MS Word, Excel, Project Management and Analytics software
• 6 + years’ relevant experience in a similar role
• Experience working in Agile / Scrum teams
• Strong technical skills and abilities including databases and SQL.
• Ability to create, execute & present UAT test plans, business focused test cases and scripts.
• Willingness & ability to learn our business partners’ domain quickly.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Be pro-active, efficient, and driving outcomes.
• Motivated to improve processes.
• Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Skilled at testing process and methodologies
• Good problem solving and analytical skills.
• Strong multi-tasking abilities and time management skills
• Strong attention to detail.
• Driven to deliver - proven ability to deliver the best possible results for the organisation; and shows determination, resourcefulness and a sense of purpose in achieving this

Education:

• BA or BS in appropriate discipline
• Information Technology / Computer Science
• Business / Finance or equivalent business experience

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Strong attention to detail.
• Driven to deliver - proven ability to deliver the best possible results for the organisation; and shows determination, resourcefulness and a sense of purpose in achieving this