Functional Tester

Direct Responsibilities

• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal third-parties to analyze testing requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Completion Report and sign-off, exception reporting and follow-up.

• Excellent knowledge and relevant experience in test automation tools and techniques, both for data entry and for comparison of test results (e.g. on screen, in reports, in database, performance and scalability tests)

• Experience in managing and maintaining test data, which allows reproducible results and comparison between successive test runs

• Strong analytical and quick learning skills required, to handle test cases in a rich and complex architecture with many interconnected applications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, managers, subject matter experts and technical teams.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Specific Skills

Strong proficiency with Testing tools and software quality tools:

• Functional tests, Non-Functional Requirements, Security, Performance, Robustness, Middleware testing (Batch processing, REST APIs)

• Expert in various testing techniques, and achieving maximum automation for non-regression tests

• Knowledge in UFT, Selenium, PostMan, etc

• ALM, JIRA, Service Now

Mandatory (Testing Skills):

• 5-8 years of relevant experience in software testing with experience in Wealth Management banking domain.

• Proficient in test life cycle.

• Manual Functional testing with various techniques

• Integration testing with other systems

• System Integration testing

• End to End testing

• Hands-on experience in writing test cases for complex projects, test data preparation and test execution.

• Hands-on experience in writing test cases using technical specification documents.

• Test cases optimization to achieve coverage and quality.

• Proficient in using Quality Center/ HP- ALM and JIRA

• Coordination with various teams on testing activities (understanding application/domain/requirements, test cases writing, execution and defects).

• Communication skills:

• Good oral & written skills.

• Report promptly (oral and written).

• Reporting to test manager on the test activities progress and data gathering to generate metrics.

• A good team player with problem-solving attitude.

• Analytical and precise: Capacity to challenge the team and convince based on facts.

Mandatory (Functional Skills):

• Knowledge on Financial Instruments:

• Different types of KPIs(i.e. loans/deposits/fx/securities/etc)

• Referential data

• Prices, Ratings, Exchange rates, Money Market rates

• Underlying assets, Indices and revenues.

Mandatory (Technical Skills):

• Hands on experience on writing queries using PLSQL developer (or equivalent) for ORACLE.

• Hands on experience in using BI4 (Business Intelligence) .

• Experience on using Unix/Linux and Windows basic commands.