Senior Test Specialist - Avaloq experience

Avaloq Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry‑leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research‑led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.

We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratise access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

The team

You will be joining a global team of dedicated professionals to support our clients within the UK market, giving you great exposure across Avaloq around the world. Working alongside developers, build managers, release management and other test professionals in a dynamic, friendly and approachable team.

Key tasks

• Develop and execute detailed test plans, test cases, and test scripts for complex software applications.
• Lead and mentor a team of testers, providing guidance on best practices and methodologies.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to identify and resolve software defects.
• Implement and maintain automated testing frameworks to improve efficiency and coverage.
• Analyse test results and provide detailed reports to stakeholders.
• Continuously improve testing processes and methodologies to enhance overall quality assurance.
• Conduct performance testing and identify areas for optimisation.
• Work closely with project manager, development teams and other stakeholders to manage risks and issues.
• Provide effort estimations and track the test effort to ensure adequate staffing.
• Monitor and control testing activities against planned budget and quality gates.
• Design, update and execute functional and business test scenarios and test cases based on functional and non‑functional requirements, ensuring their reusability.
• Manage test environments (baseline definition and maintenance, assessment on environment readiness).
• Manage tools for testing, tracking defects, statistics and requirements coverage reporting.
• Document and evaluate the result of the testing, investigate testing deficiencies.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of Test Management processes and procedures.

Qualifications

• Strong experience within the banking/financial industry, especially in Testing function.
• Experience with Avaloq banking system solution is a MUST.
• In‑depth knowledge of Test concepts and methodology.
• Strong evidencible analytical and problem‑solving competences.
• Ability to work in a highly challenging, fast‑paced and complex environment.
• Willingness to travel and work on‑site with clients in UK region.

You will get extra points for the following

• Experience of testing in Agile context: (Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, TDD, BDD, API testing).
• Experience with Test Master, Tosca, JUnit, Selenium, Cypress, Soap UI, Jenkins, GitHub and Docker.
• University degree in Engineering, Banking, Finance, Business or Economics.

Additional Information

We realise that managing work‑life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and, in order to support this, we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work‑life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions. We are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique. We have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.