Analyst Tester - Automation Testing

Description :

Responsibilities :

- Provide leadership and support for the FNZ Analysis and Testing team, building capability and providing support for more junior members of the team.

- Instil a spirit of continuous improvement in the team.

- Define and help rollout process improvements across the team and wider (where required).

- Support the recruitment of new talent into the team.

- Help Project/Delivery Managers in managing clients throughout the delivery cycle.

- 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 FNZ platform functionality.

- Working closely with our customers (on-site if required) to develop solutions and test these solutions to meet business and technical requirements.

- In solution definition, promote existing FNZ functionality, processes and 3rd party agreements wherever possible.

- 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 customer's 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 FNZ 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 FNZ 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.

- Be an SME in the FNZ platform - provide training and support for other areas of the FNZ business.

- Ensure acceptance criteria for each story are defined and cover both positive and negative testing scenarios using correct BDD syntax to feed into automation tests.

- Review/analyse 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 Behavioural Models.

- 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 conduct 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.

- Provide regular updates to the Delivery Manager on progress to plan, as well as key risks and issues.

- Provide estimates for analysis and testing to the Delivery Manager.

- 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 FNZ 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.

- Keep up to date with the latest and/or relevant technologies, tools and methods.

- Identify the adoption of processes, technology and tools best suited to FNZ.

- Proactively identify technical (environmental, coding and testing) issues that may impede test progress to enable early resolution of said technical issues.

Requirements :

- Preferred Industry Knowledge.

- Experience in an analysis or testing environment.

- General investment/wealth/life and/or pensions products and the markets in which FNZ and our customers operate.

- An understanding of the regulatory environment FNZ operates within.

- FNZ Platform expert, including being an SME in at least 6 functional areas of the platform.

- 2+ years of experience in technology delivery in the financial services/wealth market.

- 1st class degree or equivalent experience

- Experience working within an analysis or testing role previously.

- Confident and able to take initiative, given a client- and delivery-focused environment.

- Independent, self-directing and delivery-focused working style.

- Superior analytical thinking.

- Intermediate computer skills essential (SQL experience desirable).

- Excellent organisational, administration and time management skills.

- Good team communication skills, confident in dealing with internal and external clients.

- Highly developed written and oral communication skills.

- Experience with Microsoft .NET and C#.

- Knowledge and experience of Selenium WebDriver.

- Knowledge and experience with testing Rest API.