Specific Role Responsibilities
Analysis:
- Develop and maintain a deep knowledge of the platform functionality and business processes related to their nominated functional area.
- Educate and prepare customers (external and internal) on core companys platform functionality.
- Working closely with our customers (on-site if required) to develop solutions and testing these solutions to meet business and technical requirements.
- Attend customer workshops when required and input into requirements on a consultative basis.
- Work closely with Solution Consultants to understand the agreed scope of a change and design solutions that meet the customers business and technical requirements within that defined scope.
- Understanding the features that make up the solution from the end user perspective, ensuring these are documented accurately.
- Author user stories that make up the assigned feature(s) using the correct business outcome driven syntax.
- Produce Systems artefacts as per companys SDLC.
- Work with developers and managers to ensure business requirements are met and solutions are kept up to date.
- Ensure that any new business developments adhere to procedural and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Perform cross functional collaboration to address gaps in the business and technical solution.
- Identify and document any non-functional requirements related to the functionality.
- Provide guidance and clarity to technical resources around the business requirements and user stories.
- Support the management of defects and associated root cause analysis.
- Functionally review build artefacts for the function area assigned.
- Interact with Company S&S and Investment Operations functions, as required, throughout the lifecycle and post-implementation.
- Have a good knowledge of the regulatory environment in which the analyst operates and ensure that all solutions deliver a compliant platform.
Test Design & Preparation :
- Ensure acceptance criteria for each story is defined and covers both positive and negative testing scenarios using correct BDD syntax to feed into automation tests.
- Review/analyze business requirements to ensure they are quantifiable and testable.
- Write/Produce artefacts to support testing activities such as Test Designs, Test Matrices, Test Cases, Test Procedures, Test Scripts and Behavioral Models.
Test execution:
- Perform structured and context-driven (formal /ad-hoc) system, system integration and regression testing as required.
- Ensure the changes developed are to an acceptable standard by reviewing solutions, conducting regular functional reviews and testing the changes end to end once the feature is available.
- Ensure that the user stories are delivered to the client at an acceptable standard of quality and conduct walkthroughs of the delivered functionality with clients (as required).
- Author reusable tests and conducting end to end system, regression and mis-use case testing as part of the production readiness process.
- Use internal defect tracking and test case management system(s) to document test cases, record defects and record test case execution results.
- Raise and re-test defects.
- Participate in defect triage meetings as directed.
- Assist with user acceptance testing if required.
- Assist with Client support activities, supporting client UAT.
Collaboration / Communication:
- Provide regular updates to the Delivery Manager on progress to plan as well as key risk and issues.
- Provide timely estimates to the Delivery Manager.
- Provide status updates on request.
- Work with the test teams both internally and externally (client side).
- Ensure that testing issues/ solutions are called out appropriately to the testing community, and where there are obvious process improvements promote to the broader company teams and client engagement teams.
- Collaborate with other analysts to share knowledge, best practices, useful technology, and opportunities for cross-project solutions.
- Maintain high standards regarding written and verbal communications to ensure that information is clearly and concisely documented and appropriately disseminated.
Technology:
- Keep up to date with the latest and/or relevant technologies, tools and methods. Identify adoption of processes, technology and tools best suited to company.
- Proactively identify technical (environmental, coding and testing) issues may impede test progress to enable early resolution of said technical issues.
Experience required
Preferred Industry Knowledge
- Experience in an analysis or testing environment.
- General investment/wealth/life and/or pensions products and the markets in which company and our customers operate.
- An understanding of the regulatory environment companys operate within.
- 2 years of experience in technology delivery in the financial services/wealth market.
Required Knowledge & Skills
- 1 st class degree or equivalent experience
- Experience working within an analysis or testing role previously.
- Confident, and able to take initiative given client- and delivery-focused environment.
- Independent, self-directing and delivery focused working style.
- Superior analytical thinking.
- Intermediate computer skills essential (SQL experience desirable)
- Excellent organizational, administration and time management skills.
- Good team communication skills, confident in dealing with internal and external clients.
- Highly developed written and oral communication skills.
Preferred Knowledge & Skills
- Experience with Microsoft .NET and C#
- Knowledge and experience of Selenium webdriver
- Knowledge and experience with testing Rest API