Promote business growth as an Associate Business Analyst, specializing in Market Operations and Testing

Job Summary:

• As an Associate in Business Testing Analysis for the Market Operations Platform Transformations, you will have the opportunity to showcase your flexibility and expertise in a cross-functional, project-based environment.
• You will manage multiple projects, meet stakeholder expectations, and support the roll-out of an automated testing solution. We value your ability to provide testing experience across various lines of business and your contribution to our global initiatives.
• You will build and nurture relationships across multiple business lines and global locations. Your role will require collaboration, effective influencing skills, and a self-starter attitude.
• You will understand and adapt to the roles of your team members to achieve project and organizational objectives. Your day-to-day activities will require minimal supervision and a hands-on approach.

• Manage End-to-End UAT from planning, test scripting, test execution, defect management and user sign offs.
• Understand, analyze and clearly articulate to wider team including Application Development (AD), Product, Operations and Quality Assurance (QA) groups.
• Maintain documentation - test strategy, test plan, entry control and exit control as per the best practice process followed within the team.
• Execute the scenarios and capture the testing progress in qTest / JIRA. Identify the defects / gaps and track to closure.
• Track testing progress and ensure deadlines are met appropriately by working closely with AD team.
• Assist with Business Process Design where required to capture the impact of technology on current processes.
• Understand and contribute to Business Analysis if required by the program.
• Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet end objectives. Proactively communicate project status, issues & risks to management and all stakeholders
• Motivate team members and leading by example to engage in high standards of quality.
• Articulate issues and risks to management via various project management tools like RAID, Scorecards, etc

• Graduate or Postgraduate with minimum 5 years of experience working in the financial industry. Relevant testing experience within the Financial Services industry supporting multiple LOB's delivering in a highly complex and high-volume environment.
• 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.
• Expertise in Agile project delivery methodology and skills to learn and work with evolving methodologies.
• Experienced in testing processes to define requirements, document user stories and test scripts through to test execution. Excellent attention to detail so errors can be prevented, and redundancies / opportunities highlighted.
• Strong organizational skills - ability to dynamically manage and oversee critical testing tasks accurately and to tight deadlines.
• Experience with Test automation using Selenium, QTP, Cypress, or any other technology, ability to strategize test automation plans in partnership with Tech teams.
• Experienced in using Business Driven Development / Test Driven Development test methodology or test case automation. Testing experience required.
• Skilled at problem solving, ability to scope and provide structure to complex issues, rapidly learn unfamiliar processes, and provide insightful and timely remediation.
• Ability to analyze and document complex current state vs future state processes. Ability to use effective systemic data driven reporting to support program reporting. Advanced numeracy and Microsoft skills.
• Ability to liaise effectively between lines of business with empathy and understanding to achieve the common and strategic goal as a team.
• Ability to articulate Program requirements, demo functionality to end users and coordinate UAT sign offs. Actively contributes to program updates, Project, and team meetings.

• Understanding of Equity Derivatives Product Workflows and trade lifecycle is preferred.
• Good understanding Equity products and Equities trade lifecycle. Hands-on experience with JIRA & Confluence will be an added advantage.
• Worked in Equities, CIB business function, Global Markets, Middle Office or Security Services.
• Business Analysis skills, Test Automation skills, Agile methodology skills, Project / Agile methodology Qualification