Test Analyst - Core Banking Modernisation - SQL - Agile

Summary: The Test Analyst role focuses on core banking modernization, requiring strong SQL skills and experience in agile methodologies. The successful candidate will develop test strategies and approaches tailored to specific releases while collaborating with development teams to assess risks and ensure comprehensive testing. This position is integral to the UK Bank's digital transformation and aims to enhance customer experience.

Key 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 forums.
• Test planning, strategy and approach.
• Experience working in Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban and contributing to the Agile ceremonies BDD/TDD practices.

Key Skills:

• Demonstrable SQL experience in core banking systems.
• Experience in test planning and developing test strategies.
• Familiarity with agile concepts and methodologies.
• Longstanding database testing experience using SQL.
• Core UK banking (IBM green screen) testing experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to act with courage and integrity.
• Experience in Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Knowledge of BDD/TDD practices.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Manchester

Country: UK

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT