Test Analyst

to join the insource organization supporting the State Street EMEA

Why State Street Bank Poland?

Operating in Europe since 1970 State Street services clients in multiple locations. State Street Bank Poland was first established in 2007 in Kraków. Today State Street Bank Poland employs over 2500 staff members at three sites across the city and will now open a new office in Gdańsk. This will offer multiple opportunities to gain experience in diverse areas of the investment fund cycle as our Poland branch provides investment fund accounting and related services to clients of multiple State Street locations and business units across Europe. We offer positions in a challenging, rapidly changing and international environment. State Street offers a significant scope for personal growth and career progression. Throughout your career at State Street you will be provided with a wide range of training opportunities and internal mobility options as well as individual development plans, attractive benefits (including Employee Savings Plan) and an excellent remuneration package. The continuous development of our employees from day one is critical as we continually seek to develop and expand the local management team and create future leaders from within.

Job Description:

Main purpose of role:

The Test Analyst is responsible for executing and managing testing activities on Transfer Agency systems utilised in the International Financial Data Services Transfer Agency business across Europe.  Key goal is executing and managing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) of any change to a Transfer Agency application to agreed standards, ensuring that the quality of the output is of a consistently, high standard.

Mentor any direct reports within the Test Team, ensuring that they function efficiently in conjunction with internal and external teams to ensure timely and quality deliverables.

Divisional/Departmental:

• Contribute to theevolution of the Test Charter/Methodology to industry best practice and based on industry standards (ISTQB).
• Generate high quality test strategies, test plans and test results for each project the team are engaged on.
• Create comprehensive test documentation with well-defined, reusable test scripts that are traceable back to requirements.
• Contribute to reporting to stakeholders and senior management including appropriate metrics.
• Execute testing to agreed internal standards; ensure documentation is to an auditable standard.
• Balance the need to meet expected high standards for changes with the need to provide an efficient and effective service.
• Ensure regression testing is performed in a manner that recognises the risks of introducing defects into an established environment while at the same time meeting deadlines.
• Management of risk and issue escalation.
• Provide accurate test estimations to PMO/PM where requested.
• Contribute to shift left philosophy by reviewing all BRDs, providing detailed feedback based on working knowledge of the system being changed and best practice requirements validation.
• React dynamically to changing priorities.
• Prioritise work streams within projects.
• Provide appropriate level of analysis into all project go live decisions.
• Communicate accurate Test status to Test Manager, Project Manager, external vendors and key stakeholders.
• All testing to consider functional scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error validation, defect retesting, usability and performance testing.
• Plan, support and execute DR Testing with vendors.

Core Requirements:

• IFDS Employees are required to comply with the regulatory regime in which IFDS operates as appropriate to the above role.
• Employees are expected to exercise due care and diligence, ensuring the areas the incumbent is responsible for are organised and controlled.
• Employees are required to observe proper standards of market, business and personal conduct, demonstrating integrity in the execution of duties – in conjunction with the employee handbook.
• The incumbent is required to respect the IFDS approach to client care and must demonstrate due regard to the interests of our clients and in any and all third party dealings.

Qualifications:

Knowledge and Technical Skills

Specific knowledge, skills and qualifications needed to achieve required performance standards in a role.

Essential

• 2+ years testing experience in a similar environment.
• Qualified to ISEB/ISTQB Foundation level.
• Excellent risk assessment abilities.
• Experience in developing test plans and strategies, for functional and non-functional testing, manual and automation testing and performance and stress testing.
• Experience in test execution, defect classification and prioritisation.
• Proven ability to deliver high standard deliverables and documentation.
• Ability to review project deliverables for completeness, quality, and compliance with established project standards
• Proven ability to work on multiple complex projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.

Desirable

• ISTQB Test Analyst Qualification.
• Computer Science Degree
• Experience testing in a Transfer Agency operation with experience of;
• iFAST or other TA core systems;
• SWIFT or other messaging products;
• Websphere Middleware;
• Applications within a complex infrastructure.