Solutions Analyst III - UAT - Payments Technology in Glasgow

As an Associate within the Payments Technology team, you will have the day-to-day responsibility of leading a test team which would involve daily supervision, allocation of duties, timely resolution of testing issues and regular communication with your reporting manager, and you will support the strategic roll out of an automated testing solution.

Job responsibilities:

• Requirements planning against an End-to-End test strategy, including test data, environments, defect management and test automation.
• Ability to effectively lead daily Scrum Calls and deputize for the Program Test Manager in fortnightly Delivery Working Group meetings.
• Ability to manage expectations of both stakeholders and teams supporting E2E test execution.
• Identification of testing automation opportunities and test synergies within the Project.
• Responsible for completing a knowledge audit / matrix on each team member, documenting any gaps, taking steps to fill those gaps and ultimately ensuring that all UAT skills are transferable across the team.
• Escalating daily issues to the Programme Test Manager and managing expectations regarding testing and project timeline.
• Documentation and execution of test scenarios - identify specific scenarios and write test scripts using Business Driven Development for example Gherkin.
• Taking responsibility for the monitoring and reporting of Testing defects and the re-testing process.
• Validation and presentation of Test Results for internal Sign-off.
• Strong organizational skills - ability to dynamically manage and oversee critical testing tasks accurately and to tight deadlines.
• Expertise in Agile project delivery methodology and skills to learn and work 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.
• 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.
• Ability to use effective systemic data driven reporting to support program reporting.
• Very strong communication skills with the ability to provide clear and succinct verbal updates on their work to team members, colleagues, senior leads, executives and clients.
• Ability to liaise effectively between lines of business with empathy and understanding to achieve the common and strategic goal as a team.
• Actively contributes to program updates, Project and team meetings.

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.

We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.