Test Analyst - Data

Robert Walters; London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking global wealth management firm as a Test Analyst (Data) and play a pivotal role in a long-term Investment Risk project. This position offers the opportunity to lead testing efforts, ensuring all requirements are met while collaborating with business and technology teams. You will utilize your strong analytical skills and experience with various test management tools to drive project success. With a hybrid working model and a dynamic work environment, this role is perfect for a self-starter looking to make a significant impact in investment management.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading test case execution and validation.
• Strong analytical skills for producing and executing test scenarios.
• Ability to work under pressure in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of test cases to validate requirements.
• Maintain records of test results using JIRA.
• Contribute to test progress reporting and defect resolution.

Skills

Testing Experience

Analytical Skills

Manual Testing

Automation Testing

SQL Skills

Investment Management Knowledge

Collaboration Skills

Tools

JIRA

Quality Centre

ADO

Tableau

AWS

Snowflake

Data Bricks

SQL Server

Job description

Job Description

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 essentialDetails:

Rate: £400-500

Duration: 12 months, initiallyLocation: LondonHybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 remote

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