Testing Associate

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
J.P. Morgan Securities Services provides comprehensive solutions spanning the full investment cycle to help institutional investors succeed now and in the future. Our world-class suite of services includes custody, fund accounting and administration, middle office services, foreign exchange, liquidity management, securities financing, collateral management, data solutions and regulatory insights

Department Description

J.P. Morgan CPCS Securities Services is a change service team providing comprehensive solutions for Testing, Program/Project Management, Business Analysis, Data Analytics & Automation, helping clients succeed now and in the future. Our world-class suite of services are catering to Custody, Trading Services, Client Mandates, Data solutions, Specialized Utilities and Cross Product horizontals. With a broad array of Experience, Skills, Capabilities, Innovation, Automation, Standardized Process, Round the clock availability, we deliver solutions and, scale to help our clients protect and grow their assets, optimize efficiency and maximize opportunities in dynamic, global markets.

**Role Description**

**Responsibilities**
- Responsibility for the provision of accurate testing estimates within daily scrum calls.
- Documentation and execution of test scenarios - identify specific scenarios and write test scripts using Business Driven Development.
- Utilisation of test automation tools, to enable the efficient and timely E2E test execution, therefore previous experience of automated testing is required.
- Partner closely with Operations, Product and Technology groups.
- Identifying opportunities to accelerate and synergise 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.
- Deputising for the Test Manager as necessary in Project calls and communications with relevant colleagues.
- Validation and presentation of Test Results for internal Sign-off.

**Skills and Technical Expertise**
- Relevant Functional and Regression testing experience within the Financial Services industry.
- 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.
- 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 use effective systemic data driven reporting to support program reporting.
- Very strong communication skills with the ability to provide clear updates to team members, colleagues, senior leads, executives and clients.
- Actively contributes to program updates, Project and team meetings.
- Ability to handle multiple projects, manage personnel & team management 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 recognise at times the need for flexibility within roles to achieve the project and organisational objectives.
- Confident to raise concerns with senior team and support resolution.
- Effective change management skills. Ability to support & adapt within a changing environment.
- Working knowledge on data visualization and user tools like Tableau, Alteryx, QlickView, Xceptor Is not mandatory but preferred.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree (with relevant experience)
- Project / Agile methodology Qualification - Preferred.

**ABOUT US**

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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 a