Position Purpose
Our Client offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance.
The role sits within Our Client's Change and Transformation Team's Wellington branch.
The team have a requirement for an experienced business test lead to execute testing with their business on critical projects.
The Business Test Lead is responsible for:
- Documenting the overall test strategy, test plan and run sheet.
- Input and maintain requirement traceability matrix for user acceptance testing and joint user acceptance testing.
- Managing the test environment set ups including data cuts, refreshes and code deployment.
- Understanding the business requirements and converting them to test cases.
- Leading the user acceptance testing activities including test execution with business users and defect retesting.
- Assigning tasks, managing workloads, and mentoring test analysts.
- Creation and/or sourcing of test data.
- Defect triage, tracking and issue resolution.
- Writing regular status reports for testing progress including defect reporting.
- Knowledge of the project risk assessments for testing and ability to identify and escalate any risks in a timely manner.
- Leading client engagement for all joint testing activities.
- Compiling test completion reports.
- Contributing to project post implementation reviews and reporting outcomes to the business test team.
- Contributing to continuous improvement of the testing practice.
Responsibilities
• Controlling – keep projects on track by:
o Measuring: checking test progress toward meeting its objectives.
o Evaluating: determining the cause of deviations from the plan.
o Correcting: Taking corrective actions to address deviations by managing risks and issues.
o Achieving the above by defining baselines, tracking test progress, and test status reporting, determining, and taking corrective actions.
• Stakeholder Management:
o Working with project managers, business analysts, test analysts, operational teams, and subject matter experts.
o Working with IT locally & globally
o Business partnering with stakeholders internally and externally (clients, vendors, regulators).
Technical and Behavioural Competencies required
- Planning & Execution: Establishes courses of action for self to ensure work is completed efficiently. Effectively manages own time and resources to meet deadlines and quality standards.
- Team development: Optimises performance through working together. Understands how different individuals bring different skills and approaches. Works together to achieve collective goals.
- Accountability: Committed to achieving the organisation’s objectives. Demonstrates perseverance and is accountable for own actions.
- Attention to detail: Ensures accuracy and implements processes to ensure quality of output. Ensures high personal standards in all areas of work.
- Client Focus: Complete commitment to provide professional, intelligent, and timely responses to our clients’ needs and to changes in the market.
- Collaborative approach: Supports and shows respect for others. Puts people first, and works effectively with individuals, teams, and clients.
- Impact & influence: Creates a positive and professional impact on others. Uses effective strategies to win others over. Exhibits persuasive representation of team and business objectives.
- Risk awareness: Adheres to the organisation’s processes and procedures. Demonstrates a good understanding of compliance issues and implements work practices that minimise operational and reputational risk.
- Technical competency: Understanding of SQL / ability to write queries for troubleshooting purposes.
Experience and Qualifications required
- 5 years + testing experience with minimum of 2 years in a test lead role.
- Experience working with an offshore team.
- Experience in Customer (internal/external) facing roles.
- Working knowledge of IT systems and environments.
- Experience with end-to-end unit price testing within financial institutions.
- Experience with applications like Octane / JIRA / Confluence.
Desirable:
- Knowledge of custodian and/or funds management administration.
- Tertiary qualification in IT.