Test Analyst - Data

We are hiring a Test Analyst (Data) to join a global wealth management firm who is embarking on a long term Investment Risk project.

Role Responsibility

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

- Leading and owning the execution of test cases to validate that all the documented requirements have been met

- Working with the Business and Technology to capture detailed expected system results

- Reviewing requirements documentation and where appropriate providing feedback to ensure the requirements are clear and testable

- Working with the Test manager to support the project schedule, and resource model related to the required testing efforts

- Maintaining thorough records of all test execution results using the designated test management tool (JIRA) for project and audit purposes

- Ensuring defects are documented and tracked through to completion using the designated test management tool (JIRA) for project and audit purposes

- Contributing to regular reporting on test progress, defect statistics, and defect resolution to Test Manager

- Actively seeking to identify and acknowledge testing issues and take appropriate corrective actions, escalating, as needed

- Contributing to the end of phase reports detailing the test results and presenting the facts to allow the project team to make their decision to sign off

- Actively participating in project phase end review sessions

Key Capabilities – Essentials

- Relevant testing experience working with other change and technology professionals

- A good understanding of investment management

- Experience of working with a variety of test management / defect tracking tools (e.g. JIRA, Quality Centre, ADO etc).

- Strong analytical skills with hands on experience of producing and following test scenarios and test cases from requirement documentation and execution of those tests

- Ability to work collaboratively with others. Showing a positive attitude and being actively involved in solutioning outstanding issues to achieve project and company goals

- Ability to be positively assertive and diplomatic

- Must be a self-starter that works well under pressure in a fast-paced environment with a high level of self-time management

- Skilled in understanding business requirements, establishing credibility and building relationships

- Manual and Automation Testing

Additional knowledge and skills, experience, and training

- Experience of LDI products and their history

- Experience with complex Investment Management trading processes

- Experience of data acquisition, data transformation, data quality checks, data presentation, Tableau and BI visualisation tools

- Experience of investment risk data and any investment risk systems

- Strong SQL skills and use of any of AWS, Snowflake, Data Bricks or SQL server

- Familiarity with Aladdin / Aladdin Data Cloud (ADC) would be beneficial

- Experience of test driven development is desirable but not essential

Details:

Rate: £400-500

Duration: 12 months, initially

Location: London

Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 remote

Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates