Job Description

You will be responsible for the coordination of the testers within Financial Crime to manage overall coverage, ensuring quality testing is planned and completed in a consistent manner using the tools provided and ensuring that relevant reports are produced, and issues are highlighted and tracked. This is a lead role but also a hands-on role and the expectation is that the candidate will be fully immersed in the testing and providing guidance, recommendations, and support to the teams on a daily basis ensuring process is followed and that scripts, tickets and results are of the highest quality to protect our customers and to support front line staff to manage Financial Crime Risk.

You’ll make.

• Managing a team of testers and their assignments to deliver Test Strategies and Plans covering Data and End to End deliveries
• Ensuring that estimates and planning are consistently completed and that coordination with the development teams, End to End delivery lead and UAT teams occurs on an ongoing basis so that End to End plans can be maintained and tracked
• Participating in the discovery phase of changes as an SME ensuring all areas of testing are consider at an early stage, analyzing requirements and data flows to ensure full design understood.
• Leading daily incident triage calls and pre prod environment calls ensuring ownership is assigned and responses received, taking responsibility of the quality of the test scripts and incidents raised during the testing lifecycle
• Delivering a premium service to our business stakeholders by coordinating the testing and reporting to the stakeholders and End To End team on progress and highlighting issues and risks and acting on them as required
• Providing coaching and mentoring as required to the test team and ensuring processes are reviewed and refined as the challenges change

Benefits

As well as a salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.

• Competitive salary
• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus
• Pension with generous contributions of up to 12.5% from us, depending on your own contribution and length of employment with us
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
• £6,000 car allowance per year
• Company funded individual private medical insurance
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments
• Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Experience in managing the completion of Test strategy & test plans for complex projects and the full lifecycle of running tests scripts and incidents.
• Experience in Data base testing /ETL testing with experience in writing complex SQL queries
• Experience in extracting/creating required data required for testing.
• Experience in E2E testing for complex data projects & able to write test case/scenarios in Jira
• Experience in leading team of testers both offshore and onshore and managing their workload
• Ensuring visibility, traceability, and control of testing process to deliver high-quality software creating daily / weekly reports for our stakeholders
• Able to apply the appropriate test measurements and metrics in the product and the Testing Team
• Ability to cope within an often pressurized and fast moving environment, potentially working independently to identify root causes and apply solutions
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate and persuade at all levels; and able to establish positive working relationships
• A high level of diligence and attention to detail