Senior Payments Planning & Testing BA — Resiliency

State Street Corporation; Quincy (MA); On-site; USD 58,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Life, medical, dental, vision

Paid time off

Volunteer days

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

State Street Corporation in Massachusetts is seeking a structured business analyst to support Payments Business Risk and Resiliency Programs, including SWIFT resiliency, anomaly detection, and payment traceability. You will maintain plans, governance, evidence, defects and cross-workstream dependencies.

The role requires strong planning, testing, and documentation skills, plus experience with Excel and Jira.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business, finance, technology or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in project planning, business analysis, testing or PMO delivery.
• Testing, Agile, project management or business analysis certification is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the integrated project plan, milestone schedule, dependency log, RAID log, decision log and cross-workstream action tracker.
• Support conversion of BRDs and charter commitments into deliverables, requirements traceability matrices, user-story coverage and acceptance criteria.
• Develop the integrated test strategy and detailed plans for functional, integration, regression, UAT, operational readiness, resilience and cutover testing.
• Coordinate test environments, data, users, scripts, execution windows, entry and exit criteria, evidence standards and sign-off checkpoints.
• Maintain test cases linking Swift resiliency fail overs, anomaly rules, traceability lifecycle scenarios, access controls, dashboards, alerts, case management and other resilience scenarios to requirements.
• Manage defect logging, severity assessment, ownership, ageing, retesting and transparent reporting to workstream leads and governance forums.
• Coordinate end-to-end scenarios covering payment creation, screening, anomaly decisioning, holds, repair, market ACK/NACK, client communication and audit evidence.
• Support volume, cut-off, high-alert, access-control, failover and recovery test planning with Technology and Operations.
• Maintain go-live readiness checklists covering procedures, training, communication, access, support, controls, monitoring, data quality, outstanding risks and contingency plans.
• Prepare concise status reporting, test metrics and recommendations for go-live or remediation decisions.

Skills

Planning

Testing

PMO

Business analysis

Stakeholder coordination

Attention to detail

Excel

Jira

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Excel

Jira

Job description

State Street Corporation in Massachusetts is seeking a structured business analyst to support Payments Business Risk and Resiliency Programs, including SWIFT resiliency, anomaly detection, and payment traceability. You will maintain plans, governance, evidence, defects and cross-workstream dependencies.

The role requires strong planning, testing, and documentation skills, plus experience with Excel and Jira.