Investment Middle Office Services - Operations Testing Specialist

J.P. Morgan; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Discover new opportunities in the Investment Middle Office Services (IMOS) Team and develop your career!

As an IMOS Testing Specialist - Senior Associate in Investment Middle Office Services (IMOS) End-to-End Test Team, you will be involved as a key executor of the IMOS testing team front to back. You will be involved in all phases of project life cycle, with primary responsibility of manual testing and part of business implementation throughout Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). This will involve bringing a large asset manager onto the new system architecture that is being developed. You will, aside from project delivery, make key contributions by bringing efficiencies and improving productivity. You will have the opportunity to work in a large-scale transformation program with exposure to multiple products and business lines.

Investment Middle Office Services (IMOS) End-to-End Test Team is responsible for end to end test management, execution and release implementation of the IMOS Program. The team will be responsible for all elements of test execution and coordination throughout the stack for the IMOS program feeding into key stakeholders (Product, Technology and Operations).

Job Responsibilities

• Defines and plans testing scope of release.
• Reviews and owns requirements traceability and prepares Test Matrix.
• Defines acceptance and exit criteria for testing and implementation phases.
• Manages Defect Management process.
• Assesses and highlights key blockers to plan, issues, risks, workarounds and plan mitigation throughout the phases of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC).
• Owns project plan, test plan, timeline charts.
• Finalizes impact assessment of change - upstream and downstream, regression impact and plan.
• Works with stakeholders and defines test strategy for large programs.
• Reviews and executes the end to end business implementation and test plan.
• Conducts assessment of requirements for completeness, coverage, correctness and testability (back to front), current business processes, events and flows.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• User Acceptance Testing experience and/or Test management experience.
• Strong background in any or multiple business areas such as Securities trade processing or Fixed Income operations or derivatives (Listed/over-the-counter (OTC)).
• Project management and lifecycle experience.
• Clear, effective communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Middle Office (Matching/Confirmation and Settlements) experience would be of benefit but not essential.