Senior Product Delivery Associate - Payments Technology - UAT in Glasgow

As a Senior Associate within the Payments Technology LOB, you provide Test Management and supervision in a cross business, cross functional project based environment.

Responsibilities

• Leads 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.
• Effectively lead daily Scrum Calls and deputize for the Program Test Manager in fortnightly Delivery Working Group meetings.
• Managing expectations of both stakeholders and teams supporting E2E test execution.
• Identifying testing automation opportunities and test synergies within the Project.
• Completing a knowledge audit / matrix on each team member, documenting gaps, taking steps to fill those gaps and ensuring that all UAT skills are transferable across the team.
• Escalates daily issues to the Programme Test Manager and managing expectations regarding testing and project timeline.
• Documenting and executing 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 monitoring and reporting of testing defects and the re-testing process.
• Validate and present Test Results for internal sign-off.
• Demonstrates organizational skills – dynamically manage and oversee critical testing tasks accurately and to tight deadlines.
• Develop agile project delivery methodology and skills to learn and work with evolving methodologies.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Applied experience/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.

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives. We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. 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.

About The Team

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.