Strategic Test Consultant

Brickendon Consulting is an award-winning global management and technology consultancy specializing in innovative solutions and transforming complex, highly regulated environments. Founded in 2010, Brickendon has a strong focus on financial services and the public sector, helping organizations navigate and implement significant changes.

We are currently seeking a Strategic Test Consultant for one of our banking clients. In this role, you will be responsible for defining and implementing the future test strategy for the TTR programme.

✅Work location: London or Edinburgh

✅Work setting: hybrid work – 3 days per week from the office

Key Responsibilities

• Working with the MSS Business, Regulatory Oversight, IT, and Compliance to assess the impact of new TTR regulatory changes on the MSS business.
• Defining and refining requirements specification process and tooling. Agreeing the process and any changes, including hand- over points, with upstream / downstream stakeholders.
• Quality assurance of the business requirements produced by the Business Analysis team and where appropriate act as a signatory on these outputs.
• Recruitment, management and mentoring of BA resources within the TTR Programme.
• Resource forecasting and working with project and programme managers to satisfy resource demand within the constraints of the programme budget.
• Ensuring timely delivery of business requirements within TTR projects, raising any associated RAID items to project and programme management, and working with colleagues to establish effective solutions.
• Escalation point on all matters concerning Business Analysis.

Knowledge and Experience

• Relevant working experience in Testing and management of Regulatory Reporting Programs.
• Ability to lead, manage and successfully deliver projects within the agreed time scale, in liaison with all relevant stakeholders.
• Strong functional knowledge of testing and test processes within Regulatory Reporting.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of Global Banking and Markets.
• Clear and demonstrable familiarity with testing best practices and assisting in development of deliverable test strategies.
• Open personality and effective communication skills, ability and flexibility to work in an international team.
• Ability to write clear and understandable documents.
• Excellent data and presentation skills.