FNZ is Hiring For Manager/Lead Analyst Tester Role in Gurgaon

Please note this role is hybrid working role with a mix of office based and home based working. As and when government regulations allow, we will expect resources to split their time between office and home. Initially, when the teams are being set-up and trained, we would expect the degree of office working to be higher, the working location will be : Gurugram (Gurgaon)

Note: If you dont have on Paper's Team Leading experience. Please refrain applying for the role.

Role Description

Analyst Test Leads 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.

Specific Role Responsibilities

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 its 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.

Test execution:

• Perform structured and context-driven (formal /ad-hoc) system, system integration and regression testing as required.
• Ensure the changes developed are to an acceptable standard by reviewing solutions, conducting regular functional reviews and testing the changes end to end once the feature is available.
• Ensure that the user stories are delivered to the client at an acceptable standard of quality and conduct walkthroughs of the delivered functionality with clients (as required).
• Author reusable tests and conducting end to end system, regression and mis-use case testing as part of the production readiness process.
• Use internal defect tracking and test case management system(s) to document test cases, record defects and record test case execution results.
• Raise and re-test defects.
• Participate in defect triage meetings as directed.
• Assist with user acceptance testing if required.
• Assist with Client support activities, supporting client UAT.

Collaboration / Communication:

• Provide regular updates to the Delivery Manager on progress to plan as well as key risk and issues.
• Provide timely estimates to the Delivery Manager.
• Provide analysis & test project updates, as requested, to the client.
• Work with the test teams both internally and externally (client side).
• Ensure that testing issues/ solutions are called out appropriately to the testing community, and where there are obvious process improvements promote to the broader FNZ teams and client engagement teams.
• Support, mentor and develop more junior members of the team to build a fully functional and highly effective project team.
• Ensure that the Analysis Testing team improves its knowledge levels, through training and development plans and strategies.

Technology:

• Keep up to date with the latest and/or relevant technologies, tools and methods. Identify adoption of processes, technology and tools best suited to FNZ.
• Proactively identify technical (environmental, coding and testing) issues may impede test progress to enable early resolution of said technical issues.

Experience required

Preferred Industry Knowledge

• Experience in an analysis or testing environment.
• General investment/wealth/life and/or pensions products and the markets in which FNZ and our customers operate.
• An understanding of the regulatory environment FNZ operate within.
• FNZ Platform expert, including being an SME in multiple functional areas of the platform.
• 6+ years of experience in technology delivery in the financial services/wealth market.

Required Knowledge & Skills

• 1st class degree or equivalent experience
• Experience working within an analysis or testing role previously.
• Confident, and able to take initiative given client and delivery-focused environment.
• Independent, self-directing and delivery focused working style.
• Superior analytical thinking.
• Intermediate computer skills essential (SQL experience desirable)
• Excellent organisational, administration and time management skills.
• Good team communication skills, confident in dealing with internal and external clients.
• Highly developed written and oral communication skills.

Preferred Knowledge & Skills

• Experience with Microsoft .NET and C#
• Knowledge and experience of Selenium webdriver
• Knowledge and experience with testing Rest API

Why FNZ?

✔️ Hybrid Work Model
✔️ Innovation and Creativity
✔️ Free Cab facility across Delhi/NCR (Within 45KMs)
✔️ Free Delicious Meals at the office

✔️ Insurance
✔️ Dynamic and collaborative work environment