Analyst Tester Job In Dublin

Job Description

Analyst Tester - Relocation to Czech Republic

FNZ is looking for Analyst Testers to relocate to the Czech Republic offices in both Brno and Prague. Relocation support is offered.

FNZ works with top-tier financial services institutions and wealth management firms who share our ambition to create digital, highly personalized and innovative investment solutions for every end-investor. We combine technology, infrastructure and investment operations in a single platform. This way, our business customers can focus on offering better investment solutions and experiences to their clients.

The Analyst Tester will be involved in and demonstrate end to end ownership in all aspects of analysis/testing from the initial solution design stage all the way to a successful production implementation.

Specific Role Responsibilities

Analysis:

• Develop and maintain a deep knowledge of the platform functionality and business processes related to a functional area.
• Understanding regulatory domain, ability to analyse the regulatory topics and determine the functional impact on the FNZ platforms.
• Advise customers on 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.
• Author user stories that make up the assigned feature(s) using the correct business outcome driven syntax.
• Produce Systems artefacts as per FNZ SDLC and follow the best practices and guidelines.
• Work with Analyst Developers and Delivery/Project 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 functional area assigned.
• Interact with FNZ Production Support and Investment Operations functions, as required, throughout the delivery lifecycle and post-implementation.

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.
• 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 to a high standard of quality and conduct walkthroughs of the delivered functionality with clients (as required).

Collaboration / Communication

• Provide regular and timely updates to the Delivery Manager on progress to plan as well as key risk and issues.
• Work with the delivery teams both internally and externally (client side).
• Ensure that delivery issues are called out appropriately and where there are process improvements that would increase efficiency they are promoted, owned and delivered against.
• Collaborate with other Analyst Testers to share knowledge, best practices, useful technology, and opportunities for cross-project solutions.
• Maintain high standards regarding written and verbal communication to ensure that information is clearly and concisely documented and appropriately disseminated.

Test Execution and Defect Management

• Perform structured and context-driven (formal /ad-hoc) system, system integration and regression testing as required.
• Write/Produce artefacts to support testing activities such as Test Designs, Test Matrices, Test Cases, Test Procedures, Test Scripts and Behavioural Models.
• Author reusable tests and conducting end to end system, regression and mis-use case testing as part of the production readiness process.
• Assist with user acceptance testing or other client support activities if required.
• Use internal defect tracking and test case management system(s) to document test cases, record defects and record test case execution results.
• Raise, validate and re-test defects.

Experience Required

• 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.
• 2+ years of experience in technology delivery in the financial services/wealth market.
• Confident, and able to take initiative in a delivery-focused environment.
• Independent, self-directing and delivery focused working style.
• Superior analytical thinking and problem solving.
• Intermediate computer skills essential (Microsoft Office).
• Database and SQL knowledge essential.
• Excellent organisational, time management and prioritisation skills.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, confidence in dealing with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience with defect management tools (Jira).
• Experience using collaboration tools (Confluence, Teams).
• Experience with web services, automation, performance and security testing tools.

So, if this sounds like the next step for you, then we'd love to hear from you

At FNZ, we recognize that diversity, inclusion and accessibility are important factors for our success. We embrace the unique perspective and capabilities of our current and future employees, which will help us continue to drive innovation and achieve our business goals. Recruitment decisions at FNZ are made in a non-discriminatory manner where all employees are valued and respected. In particular, we want to ensure accessibility needs are well supported thus, ensuring our recruitment process is fair and equitable for all applicants.

Please let us know if there is any support we can provide to ensure FNZ's recruitment process is fully accessible to you. You can contact us at to discuss specific requirements.