Test Analyst - Core Banking Modernisation - SQL - Agile
Ideal contract role for Test Analyst with demonstrable SQL experience in core banking systems.
Experience of test planning, the ability to develop a test strategy and test approach, particularly tailored to individual releases, will also be essential. As the UK Bank becomes accustomed to more agile ways of working, it is also important that the successful candidate is very familiar with agile concepts and has proven experience of one or more agile methodologies and /or frameworks.
This role will play a key part in the UK Bank’s digital transformation journey, whilst also making a real difference to the needs and experience of its customers.
Main Responsibilities
* Collaborate with the core development team to understand the nature of disparate technical changes, to identify business risks, and to determine test scope.
* Understand and assess the adequacy of any core team technical testing and propose further risk mitigation.
* Be able to impact assess technical changes on the business and across the entire Bank.
* Provide test risk management, risk assessment and change triage without detriment to business requirements.
* Perform testing of large scale group policy changes that will affect the entire UK platform.
* Perform data / database testing utilising Dynamic SQL, validating objects, interrogating database statistics and performing large scale data reconciliation.
* Maintain and update SQL stored procedures.
* Functional, Non-functional, Smoke, Regression and Exploratory testing using SQL.
* Manual testing of programs / changes that are called via core ‘green screens’.
* Create test artefacts as required for test planning, traceability and sign off
* Develop and maintain Automated/Manual Tests.
* Conduct System Integration, Regression and Acceptance testing
* Ensure testing is carried out according to the bank’s governance standards & frameworks
* Longstanding database testing experience using SQL
* Core UK banking (IBM green screen) testing experience
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Excellent stakeholder management skills
* The ability to act with courage and integrity including appropriate challenge when necessary
* Be able to actively participate in team meetings and other test forum
* Test planning, strategy and approach
* Experience working in Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban and contributing to the Agile ceremonies BDD/TDD practices
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