As a Senior Associate - Test Lead in our User Acceptance Testing team, you will play a pivotal role in executing our roadmap and assisting with User Acceptance Testing. You will collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams, including design, technology, and service delivery teams. This role provides an opportunity to partner with testing leads and teams to assist in testing large, highly visible cross-functional initiatives. You will also manage defects, monitor and report on defect resolution, and design, develop, and assist in the creation of manual test scripts.
Job responsibilities
- Provide accurate testing estimates within daily scrum calls.
- Document and execute test scenarios – identify specific scenarios and write test scripts using Business Driven Development for example Gherkin.
- Partner closely with Operations, Product and Technology groups.
- Take responsibility for the monitoring and reporting of Testing defects and the re-testing process.
- Deputize the Test Manager as necessary in Project calls and communicate with relevant colleagues.
- Validate and present Test Results for internal Sign-off.
- Work with the minimum of supervision on day-to-day activities.
- Manage and oversee critical testing tasks accurately and to tight deadlines.
- Manage Agile project delivery methodology and upskill with evolving methodologies.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor’s degree with relevant experience or equivalent expertise at troubleshooting, resolving, and maintaining Cucumber / Gherkin, Java, Selenium or a similar tool is required.
- Functional knowledge of Payments domain and experienced in testing processes in order to define requirements, document user stories and test scripts through to test execution.
- Utilization of test automation tools, to enable the efficient and timely E2E test execution, therefore previous experience of automated testing is required.
- Experienced in testing processes in order to define requirements, document user stories and test scripts through to test execution.
- Ability to work with the minimum of supervision on day-to-day activities.
- Strong organizational skills – ability to dynamically manage and oversee critical testing tasks accurately and to tight deadlines.
- 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 keep sight of the overall context and remain centered on the strategic picture, identify areas of opportunity for process improvement and build out recommendation to proceed.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experienced in using Business Driven Development / Test Driven Development test methodology or test case automation.
- Experienced in using Cucumber / Gherkin, Java, Selenium or a similar tool is required.
- Identifying opportunities to accelerate and synergies testing processes for assigned projects and syndicate the information to other team members to validate prior to implementation.
- Relevant testing experience within the Financial Services industry supporting multiple LOB’s delivering in a highly complex, pressurized and high volume environment.
- Advanced numeracy and Microsoft skills. PowerPoint / Pitch Pro skills - able to create professional slides and structure presentations with minimal input and need for secondary review.
- Ability to use effective systemic data driven reporting to support program reporting.