Responsibilities

• Review requirements and design document and ensure they are understood
• Participate in creation of the Test Plan
• Perform and adhere to what is outlined in the Test Strategy and Test Plan.
• Create test cases that trace back to requirement and design
• Perform a smoke test of the environment to ensure it is setup accurately to test against
• Prepare test data to use during execution
• Execute test cases, record results and report progress
• Effectively record defects that are easily communicated and understood.
• Incorporate changes that are made in sustain back into that applications testing documentation.
• Re-use existing testing documentation for new projects/releases.
• Incorporate test results and changes/defect into test case
• Execute according to the test schedule and escalate if deviation are foreseen or occur.
• Identify and recommend process improvements as necessary

Software Testing Tools:

• Test Management Tool i.e. HP Quality Center
• Defect Management Tool i.e. HP Quality Center, JIRA, Mantis, Bugzilla
• Functional Testing Tool i.e. HP QTP
• Performance Testing Tool i.e.Jmeter, HP LoadRunner

Job Requirements

• Equivalency of a Bachelor's Degree in a related field (Information Systems, Computer Science, Business)
• Experience working in the financial institution
• Minimum of 2 to 4 years direct experience as a test analyst for major application integration and/or major application product release in Banking risk management sector

Capabilities:

• Interpersonal skills, to facilitate creation of test cases
• Organizational skills to manage a wide array of testing information
• Proven experience in execution of software testing solutions.
• Strong knowledge of system testing and software quality control best practices and methodologies.
• Application/business domain knowledge is desirable.  This may be readily available with the resource or would need to be developed.
• Good project management skills and/or substantial exposure to project-based work structures
• Excellent understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.