Responsibilities:
• Understand and review requirements to formulate and document test plans for new or changed application functionality
• Maintain and update as necessary, existing test plans and procedures
• Execute, or oversee the execution of, pre-release application testing, including Integration Tests, User Acceptance Tests, Functional and non-functional tests
• Manage application test and staging environments, which includes running automated deployments and requesting database refreshes
• Raise issues of testing and liaise with developers and users for remediation
• Assist in the change management process for application release. This includes collating test evidence and seeking stakeholder sign-off. You will also assist in the post-deployment verification
• Proactively identify and implement improvements to the testing process, e.g. test automation
• Solving defects; drive investigations into problems and correction actions relating to recurring problems.
• Produce and maintain technology documentation
• Understand and follow the bank's technology policies, particularly information security and change compliance
• Develop and Reuse Automated Functional, Performance and Security Testing in CI/CD pipelines in relevant Test Environments.
• Generate automated TSRs for every Sprint / initiative and provide a walkthrough to stakeholders.
• Successful delivery of change and other tasks to support our technology services.
• Identify and implement enhancements to our technology services that reduce incidents, reduce cost, improve speed to value and/or improve the experience of our colleagues and customers.
• Proactively manage risk. Meet all policies and compliance requirements, perform controls, adhere to processes and procedures pertinent to role and escalate events, issues or breaches as they are identified.
• Be compliant with the bank's policies and role model the bank's enterprise behavior.
• Building relationships with the business and other technology stakeholders
• Reduce the manual effort required to execute testing
• Reduce the system defect rates in the production environment
• Reduce the number of issues raised in the production environment
• Service delivery change compliance report.
• Demonstrate cost savings, speed to value improvements and improvements to customer and colleague experience.
• Develop a reputation with your people leader, team members and colleagues across the bank for solving problems, delivering excellence and role modelling the Bank's behaviors.
Skills
Must have
- At least 5 years experience working in application testing, including, but not limited to:
- Functional testing experience
- Integration testing experience
- Test planning and test strategy
- Defect triage and reporting
- Coordinating User-Acceptance Testing
- Track record of improving test capability and reducing the manual testing effort
- Exposure to Front Office systems is highly desirable
- Experience in a testing role within the financial services industry.
- Proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated excellence in written and verbal communication.
- Willingness to learn and deliver innovative solutions.
- Good understanding of the role of testing within an Agile SDLC, including issue tracking tools like Jira, Rally
- Experience in Software Engineering tools or equivalents such as: Control-m, Rally, Confluence, Postman, SQL, Rest, GitHub, Jenkins.
- Highly regarded: Tertiary qualifications in Computer Programming or Computer Science
- ISTQB certification would be good
Nice to have
- Investment banking front office applications
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