CPCS Manual Testing Associate

CPCS Manual Testing Associate

Requirements

• Relevant Functional and Regression testing experience within the Financial Services industry.
• Expertise in Agile project delivery methodology and skills to learn and work with evolving methodologies.
• Experienced in testing processes in order to define requirements, document user stories and test scripts through to test execution.
• Skilled at problem solving, ability to scope and provide structure to complex issues, rapidly learn unfamiliar processes and provide insightful and timely remediation.
• Excellent attention to detail so errors can be prevented and redundancies / opportunities highlighted.
• Ability to use effective systemic data driven reporting to support program reporting.
• Very strong communication skills with the ability to provide clear updates to team members, colleagues, senior leads, executives and clients.
• Ability to handle multiple projects, manage personnel & team management in order to meet stakeholder expectations.
• Ability to build and nurture effective and lasting relationships with colleagues, team members and stakeholders across multiple business lines and global locations.
• Ability to work collaboratively and with effective influencing skills to achieve positive outcomes.
• Ability to understand own role and those of other team members and recognise at times the need for flexibility within roles to achieve the project and organisational objectives.
• Confident to raise concerns with senior team and support resolution.
• Effective change management skills. Ability to support & adapt within a changing environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft applications i: e Word, Excel and Power-point.

Responsibilities

• Responsibility for the provision of accurate testing estimates within daily scrum calls.
• Documentation and execution of test scenarios – identify specific scenarios and write test scripts using Business Driven Development.
• Utilisation of test automation tools, to enable the efficient and timely E2E test execution, therefore previous experience of automated testing is required.
• Partner closely with Operations, Product and Technology groups.
• Identifying opportunities to accelerate and synergise testing processes for assigned projects and syndicate the information to other team members to validate prior to implementation.
• Taking responsibility for the monitoring and reporting of Testing defects and the re-testing process.
• Deputising for the Test Manager as necessary in Project calls and communications with relevant colleagues.
• Validation and presentation of Test Results for internal Sign-off.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project / Agile methodology Qualification – Preferred.
• Working knowledge on data visualization and user tools like Tableau, Alteryx, QlickView, Xceptor Is not mandatory but preferred.