Test Analyst

Job purpose: 

To manage and support the assigned Business Technology team to ensure that delivery is aligned to business requirements and that best-fit and sustainable solutions are applied. To support and enable quality solutions by ensuring that testing is effectively planned , monitored, and executed, and that core activities required by the testing framework are completed

Duties and responsibilities:

• Engage with the macro-environment to look for new opportunities, capabilities and trends that would add value to the required quality/test analysis work
• Suggest changes in executing work processes to better drive value and benefits for the business
• Prepare and share recommendations for process and systems improvements across the function
• Actively participate in team, cross-discipline and vendor-driven collaboration sessions or forums to increase understanding of the working environment
  (current and planned)
• Partner with BT and Business stakeholders to create integrated roadmaps to enable business requirements delivery
• Provide relevant information to inform the accurate scoping of a project/programme. This includes pro-active engagement with relevant teams to
  ensure that solution delivery meets business needs
• Use quality management models and techniques to identify areas for improvement within the area
• Determine corrective action to reduce errors and improve the quality of the system and services provided to business
• Draft and maintain relevant test plans
• Monitor progress against plans and effect mitigation actions
• Evaluate emerging defects and recommend solutions
• Ensure compliance to governance processes
• Design relevant test scripts/ test cases to best determine system readiness and usability
• Develop exit and entry criteria based on the consolidation of all test requirements
• Draft and maintain user acceptance testing (UAT) and training plans

Qualifications and education:

• Diploma/Degree
• Relevant certification (Testing)
• Relevant product/applications/service
• Test methodologies including quality assurance
• Documentation and requirement gathering
• Agile/DevOps principles and applications
• Bespoke BU/FA knowledge
• Systemic and integrated approach to testing so that up-stream and down-stream impacts are considered
• Testing automation (preferred)
• Datawarehouse Testing Experience
• ETL Testing Experience
• PowerBI Testing Experience
• AI Testing
• Previous experience in Banking or Financial Services