Testing Associate

**JOB DESCRIPTION** Test Integration & Implementation****:

- Senior Analyst**

**Test Integration & Implementation** (TII)**

TII which sits inside the JPM Corporate and Investment Bank within Payments Technology is a multi-disciplinary team of around 300 testing and change professionals located globally and working on some of the most complex, multi-year, critically important and strategic projects within the JPM.

**Role Description**

Provision of UAT Senior Analysis for TII Team; in a cross business, cross functional project based environment. Flexibility to provide Testing experience on other LOB’s and support transformational Global initiatives within TII.

**Responsibilities**
- Requirements planning against an End-to-End UAT test strategy, including test data, environments, defect management and test automation.
- Responsibility for the provision of accurate testing estimates within daily scrum calls.
- Documentation and execution of UAT test scenarios - identifying specific scenarios and developing test scripts
- Utilization of Cockpit, Test Execution Simulators’ JPM’s in-house test automation tool to assist the efficient and timely E2E test execution, therefore previous experience of automated testing would be highly beneficial.
- Partner closely with Operations, Product and Technology groups
- Identifying opportunities to accelerate and synergies testing processes for assigned projects and syndicate the information to other team members to validate prior to implementation
- Taking responsibility for the monitoring and reporting of Testing defects and the re-testing process
- Deputizing for the Test Execution Lead as necessary in Project calls and communications with relevant colleagues.

**Functional and Technical Expertise**
- Relevant testing experience within the Financial Services industry supporting multiple LOB’s delivering in a highly complex, pressurized and high volume environment.
- Expertise in Agile project delivery methodology and skills to learn and work with evolving methodologies
- Experienced in testing processes in order to define requirements, document user stories and test scripts through to test execution.
- 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
- Good Functional knowledge of Wholesale Payments utilizing SWIFT (MT103, 202, 202 COV, 910, 900, 940, 950 etc), BACS and Real-Time Payments.
- Good Functional working knowledge on ISO 20022 XML formats
- Working knowledge of direct testing with Clearing Houses and Central Banks would be an advantage.
- Experienced in using Business Driven Development / Test Driven Development test methodology or test case automation.

**Problem Solving and Analysis**
- Highly skilled at problem solving, ability to scope and provide structure to complex issues and provide insightful and timely remediation.
- Superior attention to detail so that documentation / reporting errors can be prevented.
- Ability to identify areas of opportunity for process improvement and build out recommendation to proceed
- Advanced numeracy and Microsoft skills

**Communication**
- 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
- Ability to use effective systemic data driven reporting to support program reporting
- Actively contributes to program updates, Pod and team meetings

**Working Style and Influence**
- Ability to handle multiple projects and project colleagues in order to meet stakeholder expectations
- Ability to build and nurture effective and lasting relationships with colleagues, team members and stakeholders across multiple business lines and global locations
- Ability to work collaboratively and with effective influencing skills to achieve positive outcomes
- Ability to understand own role and those of other team members and recognize at times the need for flexibility within roles to achieve the project and organizational objectives
- Able to work comfortably and confidently under pressure to achieve target deadlines
- Ability to work on a hands on basis and not limit oneself to only tracking and reporting milestones
- Confident to raise concerns with leadership team and support resolution

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor degree (with relevant experience) preferred
- Project / Agile methodology Qualification - preferred
- Worked in CIB business function, Wholesale Payments.
- Testing & Payment (SWIFT, ISO 20022 ) experience required.
- Test Automation skills are added advantage.
- Proven and evidenced successful test team experience

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