Promote business growth as an Associate Business Analyst, specializing in Market Operations and Testing
Job Summary:
- As an Associate in Business Testing Analysis for the Market Operations Platform Transformations, you will have the opportunity to showcase your flexibility and expertise in a cross-functional, project-based environment.
- You will manage multiple projects, meet stakeholder expectations, and support the roll-out of an automated testing solution. We value your ability to provide testing experience across various lines of business and your contribution to our global initiatives.
- You will build and nurture relationships across multiple business lines and global locations. Your role will require collaboration, effective influencing skills, and a self-starter attitude.
- You will understand and adapt to the roles of your team members to achieve project and organizational objectives. Your day-to-day activities will require minimal supervision and a hands-on approach.
Job Responsibilities:
- Manage End-to-End UAT from planning, test scripting, test execution, defect management and user sign offs.
- Understand, analyze and clearly articulate to wider team including Application Development (AD), Product, Operations and Quality Assurance (QA) groups.
- Maintain documentation - test strategy, test plan, entry control and exit control as per the best practice process followed within the team.
- Execute the scenarios and capture the testing progress in qTest / JIRA. Identify the defects / gaps and track to closure.
- Track testing progress and ensure deadlines are met appropriately by working closely with AD team.
- Assist with Business Process Design where required to capture the impact of technology on current processes.
- Understand and contribute to Business Analysis if required by the program.
- Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet end objectives. Proactively communicate project status, issues & risks to management and all stakeholders
- Motivate team members and leading by example to engage in high standards of quality.
- Articulate issues and risks to management via various project management tools like RAID, Scorecards, etc
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Graduate or Postgraduate with minimum 5 years of experience working in the financial industry.Relevant testing experience within the Financial Services industry supporting multiple LOB's delivering in a highly complex and high-volume environment.
- Very strong communication skills with the ability to provide clear and succinct verbal updates on their work to team members, colleagues, senior leads, executives, and clients.
- Expertise in Agile project delivery methodology and skills to learn and work with evolving methodologies.
- Experienced in testing processes to define requirements, document user stories and test scripts through to test execution. Excellent attention to detail so errors can be prevented, and redundancies / opportunities highlighted.
- Strong organizational skills - ability to dynamically manage and oversee critical testing tasks accurately and to tight deadlines.
- Experience with Test automation using Selenium, QTP, Cypress, or any other technology, ability to strategize test automation plans in partnership with Tech teams.
- Experienced in using Business Driven Development / Test Driven Development test methodology or test case automation. Testing experience required.
- Skilled at problem solving, ability to scope and provide structure to complex issues, rapidly learn unfamiliar processes, and provide insightful and timely remediation.
- Ability to analyze and document complex current state vs future state processes. Ability to use effective systemic data driven reporting to support program reporting. Advanced numeracy and Microsoft skills.
- Ability to liaise effectively between lines of business with empathy and understanding to achieve the common and strategic goal as a team.
- Ability to articulate Program requirements, demo functionality to end users and coordinate UAT sign offs. Actively contributes to program updates, Project, and team meetings.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Understanding of Equity Derivatives Product Workflows and trade lifecycle is preferred.
- Good understanding Equity products and Equities trade lifecycle. Hands-on experience with JIRA & Confluence will be an added advantage.
- Worked in Equities, CIB business function, Global Markets, Middle Office or Security Services.
- Business Analysis skills, Test Automation skills, Agile methodology skills, Project / Agile methodology Qualification
