We’re on the lookout for a Test Analyst to join our fast-paced Transformation team. This is a hands-on role, and you’ll support the Transformation programme bringing some key skills including; high-quality test creation and execution abilities, excellent organisation and communication, and collaboration across multiple workstreams.
Transformation is a large scale and complex programme of work, and already in flight so as a candidate you’ll need to be able to ‘hit the ground running’. This is an exciting and varied role and a great opportunity to play a part in the transformation of the Nucleus platform as we move towards becoming ‘best loved’ in the marketplace.
Please note: Tier 2 (Skilled Worker) Sponsorship is not being offered for this role. You must have unrestricted right to work in the UK to apply.
Key Accountabilities
You’ll spend your time:
1. Analysing and understanding scope of testing, participating in discussions with relevant workstreams to ensure clarity.
2. Creating and maintaining test artefacts including test matrix, test cases, and governance including evidence
3. Executing test cases, focussing on quality, and ensuring required levels of coverage and high standards of testing are upheld.
4. Updating your Test Manager with progress, calling out issues, and feeding into estimates
5. Defect creation, prioritisation, and retest
6. Communicating, reporting, and walking through test activity to support evidence sign off.
7. Collaborating with other members of the test team to share knowledge and best practices.
8. Liaising with external partners to work better together and deliver quality.
A bit about you
Your friends might describe you as having an eye for detail, confidently asking questions until you achieve the right outcome. You are comfortable working independently and as part of a team, keeping in mind the bigger picture of delivery and keen to discover and implement opportunities to work smarter.
You’ll enjoy working within a fast-paced environment that gives you the opportunity to flex your time management responsibilities and your skill for staying calm under pressure. Creative and motivated, you’ll take great pride in your ability to act on your own initiative and remain flexible in the face of changing circumstances and priorities.
You’ll thrive when working as part of a diverse and supportive team, collaborating with your colleagues to share ideas and knowledge, and displaying your knack for relationship building both with your peers and stakeholders.
Key Competencies
9. Experience of working in a testing role on a large-scale Change/Transformation programme
10. Experience of wealth management and pensions industry.
11. Experience of working with 3rd party providers.
12. Understanding of Information Technology systems within a Financial Services platform environment
13. Comfortable working with outsourced partners and providers
14. Delivery focused with the ability to take the initiative.
15. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
16. SQL experience an advantage
17. A flexible approach and the drive to deliver quality.
18. ISTQB certification desirable
A little about us
We are the Nucleus Financial Platforms group and we help make retirement more rewarding. Here at Nucleus, people come first - whether it’s our colleagues, or the advisers and customers we support, we know that working in partnership and collaboration leads to the best outcomes. Together, we’ve shaped the platform to how it is today. We work hard, and we celebrate hard too.
Our ambition is to create a platform with a difference, putting the customer centre stage meant tearing up the rule book and starting from scratch. We’ve come a long way since then, but our mission remains just as focused. That’s why our culture, values, and social responsibility are things we keep at the top of our agenda – because we know they matter and have a big impact.
Our culture is one of the many things that sets us apart from the pack. We want to have an environment where our people feel that they can make a real difference, know they’ll be rewarded for their efforts and more importantly, enjoy themselves at work.
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Inclusion and diversity at Nucleus
As with most things in life, who cares, wins. We really care about inclusion.
For us it’s not a tick box exercise; inclusion and diversity are embedded in our culture and everything we do. It’s a commercial imperative. It isn’t about being PC. It’s about being future-relevant and durable. We owe it to ourselves and the industry to ensure we are playing our part in creating a fair, balanced and transparent financial services sector.
More diversity means broader experience, a wider set of perspectives and a better collective ability to problem-solve. And it means being more representative of customer groups, which supports areas such as product development.
At Nucleus, we offer a generous blend of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including a non-contributory pension, bonus, enhanced parental leave, paid time off for emergencies, health and wellbeing initiatives and flexible working options.
If you’d like to find out more about us or the role, please get in touch with Hannah (hannah.mccreadie@nucleusfinancial.com) in our People team.