Test Analyst

**Short Description**:
We are currently seeking a high caliber professional to join our team as a Test Analyst.

**Responsibilities**:
What you’ll do:
Value Creation:

- Provide education to resources on the testing methodology including test approach, test policy, tools, and technique.
- Work with testers for continuous improvement of the testing methodology.
- Provide guidance to Project resources on applicable use of the methodology and project organization for testing.
- Support for test-tool introduction, test planning, staff supervision, and cost and progress status reporting.
- With good understanding of project delivery scope, timeline, and business requirements, define suitable testing approach, test strategy and test execution plan.
- Verify the quality of requirements, define the appropriate test cases, test data/profile and environment requirements.
- Collaborate with IT and ensure appropriate test data/profile and environment are created and set up for testing.
- Identify and arrange any tools and devices needed in order to meet testing deliverables.
- Keep track of testers’ test cases execution and defect management.
- Manage and execute testing, monitor success criteria, defects, fixes, retests and resolution, tracking and reporting.

Operational Performance:

- Identify risk, issues and any blockers that may impact the testing progress and initiate steps to mitigate the risk and remove the blockers.
- Report and update testing status to stakeholders
- Cover testers’ responsibility if necessary.
- Evaluate and recommend approval of UAT test result before sending to business.
- Be the Test SME of the responsible value stream and portfolio.
- Issue User Acceptance Test Plan
- Present and Issue Completion Certificate.

Capability and People Development:

- Documents test results and ensure all test evidence are uploaded into the specified JIRA/QC/Confluence pages.
- Prepares and circulate the UAT Completion Certificate for signoff.
- Conduct the UAT Test Evidence Walkthrough session by presenting test outcomes/results for UAT signoff.
- Participates and provides feedback in the project retrospective or post implementation review sessions.
- Work with Test Leads and Test Manager for continuous improvement of testing methodology.
- Participate in the team engagement to share best practices, lessons learned and improvement opportunities after each project completion.

**Qualifications**:
Knowledge
- Minimum 3-6 years experiences in managing and leading a testing team with end-to-end testing for large scale and major projects.
- Strong experience in managing user acceptance testing, both in an Agile and Waterfall delivery environment.
- Extensive hands-on experience in planning, testing, and defect tracking skills including using a variety of tools such as Quality Centre, JIRA, Confluence.
- Familiar with test-program concerns including test-data management, testing policy, risk and issue reporting and resolution, test design and test development.
- Good knowledge of testing life cycle and proficient in working with test tools.
- Experience in working with diverse teams of different work streams.
- Extensive working knowledge and experience on test management and practices.
- Skilled Business Analyst with relevant experience in the coordination of SIT and UAT for multi phased project, preferably in using Agile practise.

Experience
- Overall financial services industry knowledge with specific functional expertise
- Some experience gathering requirements, process re-engineering or conducting design activity
- Experience of communicating effectively with a range of stakeholders.
- Exposure to change implementation activity.
- Some experience of data analysis and interpretation.
- Good verbal and written communication skills and some experience in face-to-face presentation.
- Experience on defining and preparing the associated test data and testing profiles, creating test cases, executing the cases, capturing and verifying the test results.
- Experience in monitoring success criteria, testing progress, defects retesting, resolution tracking and reporting.
- Have working experience on test management tools and practices.
- Experience of working under pressure, to fixed timescales.
- Experience of coordinating the delivery of services from multiple internal and external teams.