Lead Analyst Tester

The opportunity

Lead Analyst Testers are responsible at a project level for delivering high quality solutions from requirements capturing up to release to production taking personal ownership and accountability for the work of the team they lead, leading by example and working towards building a highly effective and self-sufficient project team. These activities will likely all include the management of stakeholders (internal and external) to ensure that solution designs meet client requirements.

As a Lead Analyst Tester, this role will undertake all the duties of the analyst tester role but with some additional leadership responsibilities.

This role requires an expert level knowledge of FNZ platform capabilities and a deep understanding of assigned functional areas of the FNZ platform. They will work on a consultative basis to support Solution Consultants in workshops and provide input into requirements.

This role is accountable for quality, AT practices, test automation and AT project KPIs.

Leadership:

- Provide leadership and support for the FNZ Analysis & Testing team, building capability and providing support for more junior members of the team. Instil a spirit of continuous improvement in the team.
- Always put the customer first, take personal accountability for meeting deadlines with high quality solutions and constantly aim to maximise the value FNZ delivers to our customers.
- Provide line management to other analyst testers within the team, ensure that performance reviews and objectives are clearly defined for each employee.
- Define and help rollout process improvements across the team and wider (where required)
- Support the recruitment of new talent into the team
- Help Project/Delivery Managers in managing clients throughout the delivery cycle.
- Support reviews within the estimation and scheduling of build items
- Ensure, for their project teams, that they promote and monitor delivery KPIs and compliance data to drive forward continuous improvement.
- Motivate and drive best outcomes from others on the project team

Analysis:

- Have and maintain an expert level knowledge of the FNZ platform and it’s capabilities.
- Educate and prepare customers (external and internal) on core FNZ platform functionality.
- Working closely with our customers (on-site if required) to develop solutions and testing these solutions to meet business and technical requirements.
- Attend customer workshops when required and input into requirements on a consultative basis.
- Work closely with Solution Consultants to understand the agreed scope of a change and design solutions that meet the customers business and technical requirements within that defined scope.
- Understanding the features that make up the solution from the end user perspective, ensuring these are documented accurately.
- Ensure that user stories of their own their team are reviewed and are always effective, accurate and they have the correct business outcome driven syntax.
- Produce Systems artefacts as per FNZ SDLC.
- Work with developers and managers to ensure business requirements are met and solutions are kept up to date.
- Ensure that any new business developments adhere to procedural and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Perform cross functional collaboration to address gaps in the business and technical solution.
- Identify and document any non-functional requirements related to the functionality.
- Provide guidance and clarity to technical resources around the business requirements and user stories.
- Support the management of defects and associated root cause analysis.
- Functionally review build artefacts for the function area assigned.
- Interact with FNZ S&S and Investment Operations functions, as required, throughout the lifecycle and post-implementation.
- Have a good knowledge of the regulatory environment in which the analyst operates and ensure that all solutions deliver a compliant platform.
- Be an SME in the FNZ platform - provide training and support for other areas of the FNZ business.

Test Design & Preparation:

- Ensure acceptance criteria for each story is defined and covers both positive and negative testing scenarios using correct BDD syntax to feed into automation tests.
- Review/analyse business requirements to ensure they are quantifiable and testable.
- Write/Produce artefacts to support testing activities such as Test Designs, Test Matrices, Test Cases, Test Procedures, Test Scripts and Behavioural Models.

What will you bring to the role?
- Experience in an analysis or testing environments
- General investment/wealth/life and/or pensions products and the markets in which FNZ and our customers operates
- An understanding of the regulatory environment FNZ operate within.
- FNZ Platform expert, including being an SME in multiple functional areas of the platform.
- 5+ years of experience in technology delivery in the financial services/wealth market.
- Experience working within an analysis or testing role pr