Job Description:

Description:

Cloud, analytics and data technologies have earned a place as some of the core disruptors in this age of Digital Transformation. The Financial Advisor Services (FAS) group is investing in a data analytics program to enable the business to gain new insights, to quickly make critical business decisions, and to provide a personalized digital experience. This project manager role will provide an opportunity to expand your technical, business and leadership acumen, while working with a great team of crew and contractors in this rapidly evolving field.

This Product Test Engineer would be part of a team enabling data capabilities specifically for the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) program, which is an Enterprise initiative that FAS has a vested interest in.

Duties and Responsibilities:

•         Provides intermediate level of expertise. Builds effective relationships with the project’s business lead ensuring a collaborative environment is established. Applies elicitation techniques, utilizes various modeling techniques such as process modeling, data modeling, system modeling, example mapping, to gather information at the right level of detail and scope to represent all of the stakeholder’s needs, and the ability to ask questions that lead to a succinct understanding of the business.

•         Supports and leads analysis, design and preparation of application/system specifications for information systems solutions which address business needs and methods for testing and installing them. Organizes, optimizes and sustains ATTD and project artifacts that define product baseline.

•         Authors the project’s Test Strategy, as warranted, during the project’s planning phase or Sprint 0 and leads design and implementation of a detailed systems test plan to ensure an accurate and effective product. Applies Risk assessment methods to identify risk, probability, impact, and mitigate approaches.

•         Ensures the test approach, for every functional requirement/story, is captured in the Feature Files or in Given, When, Then format. Challenges the team to automate testing at the lowest possible level ( unit, integration, or End-to-End).

•         Collaborates with the team to develop and execute manual End-to-End test cases , and exploratory tests following the Test Case standards.

•         Supports Developers & Automation Engineers scripting the automated tests at ALL levels of the “test pyramid” (i.e. – Unit, Integration, and End-to-End system tests); may participate in the automated test code reviews.

•         Leverages current the tool(s) and technique(s) used to automate acceptance tests and link them to requirements key controls (E. g – Cucumber) .

•         Assists the Developers & Automation Engineers identifying and/or provisioning system test data using homegrown tools or vendor products.

Qualifications:

o             3-5 years of business analysis experience, including 3-5 yrs of relevant testing experience, both manual and/or automated testing

o             Good facilitation and elicitation skills, Strong interviewing, probing, influence skill, Active listener, strong interpreter and sharer of information.

o             Good analytical and problem solving skills

o             Good communications skills, both written & verbal

o             Broad business process and product domain knowledge.  Strong  knowledge of the Finance/Investment Management industry

o             Good knowledge of Agile/Lean  software development principals

o             Excellent skills with Microsoft office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)

o             Working knowledge with several testing and collaboration tools or equivalent;  Jira, Cucumber, Selenium, Appium, LeanFT, Protractor

o             Commitment to delivering the highest quality software systems on behalf of our clients

o             Proficient organizational and project management skills

•             This job requires

• Great technical aptitude to quickly learn new things and stay current, as Cloud, Data and Analytics (DnA) are rapidly evolving in the industry.  We’re currently working with Amazon Web Services and a variety of AWS and 3rd party DnA tools.

• Strong relationship management skills, as the team collaborates externally with vendors and internally with various IT and business areas to quickly deliver true business value to the FAS business.

• An understanding of data analytics as you work with the team to define and refine the vision for the Data and Analytics pipeline in FAS.

• Research and creativity, with strong conceptual thinking to help the FAS business envision ways our data framework can help evolve their business and technology offerings

• Vendor Product integration experience helpful, particularly Microsoft Dynamics