Solutions Analyst III - Payments Technology - UAT

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As a Solutions Analyst III in Payments Technology - UAT, you will provide test management and supervision for the Payments Technology LOB in a cross-business, cross-functional project-based environment and support the strategic roll out of an automated testing solution.

Job responsibilities:

• 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 reporting manager.
• Responsibility for the provision of accurate testing estimates within daily scrum calls.
• 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 Program 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.
• Partner closely with Operations, Product and Technology groups.
• 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 & Python 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.
• 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.
• 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.