Strategic Test Consultant

JR United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy is seeking a Strategic Test Consultant to define and implement test strategies for a banking client. This hybrid role involves working closely with various stakeholders to ensure quality and timely delivery of business requirements. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in testing and regulatory reporting, along with excellent communication skills.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in Testing and management of Regulatory Reporting Programs.
• Ability to lead and deliver projects within agreed time scales.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement future test strategy for the TTR programme.
• Quality assurance of business requirements produced by the Business Analysis team.
• Recruit and mentor BA resources within the TTR Programme.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Project Management

Job description

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Brickendon Consulting is an award-winning global management and technology consultancy specializing in innovative solutions and transforming complex, highly regulated environments. Founded in 2010, Brickendon has a strong focus on financial services and the public sector, helping organizations navigate and implement significant changes.

We are currently seeking a Strategic Test Consultant for one of our banking clients. In this role, you will be responsible for defining and implementing the future test strategy for the TTR programme.

Work location: London or Edinburgh

Work setting: hybrid work - 3 days per week from the office

Key Responsibilities

• Working with the MSS Business, Regulatory Oversight, IT, and Compliance to assess the impact of new TTR regulatory changes on the MSS business.
• Defining and refining requirements specification process and tooling. Agreeing the process and any changes, including hand- over points, with upstream / downstream stakeholders.
• Quality assurance of the business requirements produced by the Business Analysis team and where appropriate act as a signatory on these outputs.
• Recruitment, management and mentoring of BA resources within the TTR Programme.
• Resource forecasting and working with project and programme managers to satisfy resource demand within the constraints of the programme budget.
• Ensuring timely delivery of business requirements within TTR projects, raising any associated RAID items to project and programme management, and working with colleagues to establish effective solutions.
• Escalation point on all matters concerning Business Analysis.

Knowledge and Experience

• Relevant working experience in Testing and management of Regulatory Reporting Programs.
• Ability to lead, manage and successfully deliver projects within the agreed time scale, in liaison with all relevant stakeholders.
• Strong functional knowledge of testing and test processes within Regulatory Reporting.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of Global Banking and Markets.
• Clear and demonstrable familiarity with testing best practices and assisting in development of deliverable test strategies.
• Open personality and effective communication skills, ability and flexibility to work in an international team.
• Ability to write clear and understandable documents.