Test Analyst
Summary
Test Analyst designs and executes test cases for financial systems, ensuring data integrity and compliance using enterprise tools like OpenText ALM.
Main Responsibilities:
- Domain Expertise: Demonstrated history of delivering testing services within complex enterprise environments, specifically focusing on financial services, transactional systems, lending platforms, or large-scale legacy modernisation initiatives.
- Test Management Tooling: Advanced proficiency utilising enterprise test management ecosystems (such as OpenText ALM or equivalent lifecycle management tools) for test case design, end-to-end traceability, defect tracking, and metric reporting.
- Analytical Capability: Exceptional analytical aptitude to dissect intricate business requirements, derive comprehensive test scenarios, and conduct meticulous root-cause investigations.
- Testing Lifecycle Execution: End-to-end experience spanning the design, creation, and execution of functional, system integration (SIT), regression, end-to-end (E2E), and user acceptance (UAT) testing frameworks.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Strong interpersonal and communication skills to partner effectively with business subject matter experts (SMEs), cross-functional project squads, external vendors, and technical engineering units.
- Data Integrity & Validation: Proven ability to validate massive, intricate data structures, ensuring robust data quality, reconciliation accuracy, and compliance reporting.
- Documentation Standards: Comprehensive technical writing abilities covering master test strategies, detailed test plans, scenario documentation, defect logs, and executive status reporting.
- Data Programs: Background supporting complex data migrations, platform conversions, system integrations, or foundational infrastructure overhauls.
- Reconciliation & Verification: Hands-on experience executing data reconciliation, migration validation checks, cutover support, and post-implementation verification activities (including migration weekend planning and dry runs).
- Enterprise Change: Familiarity navigating large-scale enterprise transformations, corporate mergers, system modernisations, or platform consolidation initiatives.
- Regulatory Awareness: Working knowledge of compliance frameworks, governance standards, and operational risk processes within heavily regulated corporate sectors.
- Vendor & Global Delivery: Experience coordinating testing deliverables alongside third-party vendors and distributed/offshore QA teams.
- Delivery Methodologies: Practical working knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery frameworks.
- Quality Focus: Uncompromising attention to detail and a relentless commitment to software quality and delivery excellence.
- Problem Solving: Proactive, self-motivated, and collaborative mindset geared toward overcoming technical bottlenecks.
- Time Management: Proven ability to balance competing priorities and deliver successfully in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
- Communication: Articulate communicator who translates technical testing outcomes, project risks, and defect trends into actionable insights for leadership and stakeholders.