The Pricing & Billing Teamis a dedicated team of project and client facing resources focused on large scale change initiatives to address billing and pricing business requirements across Securities Services. The group provides a unique mix of project skills, product experience & discipline enabling it to provide a consistent, high-quality and responsive approach to manage and execute change across the firm.
The Associate will be responsible for driving data analytics, coordinating with billing partners to determine execution/planning approach and constructing/delivering outbound communication channels to stakeholders to ensure buy in & commitment to expedite cross product efforts focused on streamlining both the Billing operations and the Technology landscape.
Job Responsibilities :
- Define end to end business processes, conduct gap analysis and partner with stakeholders to deliver optimum business solutions
- Create and review the Test Plan which will include but not limited toUAT Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, TestCoverage (including entry and exit criteria), Test Strategy, Test Methods, Test Responsibilities
- Execute test scripts
- Provide training on best practices and industry wide standardized Testing approaches
- Assist in the delivery of monthly/quarterly reporting on the testing results and SOP documentation uplifts where necessary
- Support management in performing feasibility checks and proof of concepts for non-traditional projects
- Actively seek and participate in process improvement and data remediation efforts across projects
- Perform end to end User Acceptance, Regression & Functional Testing
- Track and document test results inclusive of defect management (identification and analysis of defects, partnering with key stakeholders to ensure timely bug resolution)
- Develop efficiency tools to assist with test scripts and testing automation
- Build competency assessment tests for testers
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills :
- Bachelor’s Degree and/or Graduate Degree in Engineering/ Statistics/ Management
- 2-4 years relevant experience in Software Development Life Cycle management (requirements analysis, test design, test preparation, test execution and defect management)
- Ability to identify and analyse problems and propose effective corrective solutions to meet business, and/or system requirements
- Ability to extract data from firm-wide systems and tools and implement data analysis techniques to conduct complex analysis and derive tangible business insights
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (SharePoint, Word, Advanced Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Experience in project management is preferred
- Familiarity with Agile frameworks and regression testing is a plus
- Experience in Visual Basic Application, SQL is a plus
- Knowledge/ Exposure to Big Data is a plus
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills :
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Detail oriented, organized and pro-active
- Ability to work both independently and as a team in a fast paced production environment with minimal supervision
- Strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills
- Excellent stakeholder and client relationship management skills
- Champions continuous process improvements and proactively support knowledge sharing
- Creates an environment that fosters and supports thought leadership, innovation and creative problem solving