Job Description

Upskills provides expert financial software consulting to investment banks and leading financial institutions in Asia Pacific, Middle East and Europe. With a strong, Front to Back expertise in the cash and derivatives markets, coupled by an in-depth knowledge of financial markets technologies, we provide smart and efficient solutions.

We are looking for a highly-skilled Business Analyst in Testing to be based in New York with experience in Capital Markets industry  (either Front, Middle or Back-office experience) as analyst or technical support team.  You will be working with a team of consultants and experienced users delivering software components as part of the implementation, upgrade, or migration of a financial platform.  You will work very closely with Financial platform SMEs with the following tasks:

• Reviewing requirements, specifications, and technical design documents. 
• Creating detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases. 
• Working with multiple teams in order to develop the core foundation for automation tools. 
• Designing, developing, and executing automation and manual scripts. 
• Designing, developing, and executing performance tests. 
• Identifying, tracking, and resolving bugs. 
• Improving quality assurance metrics. 

Requirements

• Master's or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Financial Engineering or relevant discipline. 
  
• Experience working in Software Quality Assurance and Testing, preferably in the area of Banking and Finance, Capital Markets.
• Experience on Test on Murex  (MX.3 or MXG.2000) or competitive software packages is a plus. 
  
• Experience in writing test cases in a programming language such as Java, Groovy, and JavaScript.
  
• Experience in API Testing with tools like Postman, RestAssured, SoapUI, etc...
  
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, etc...
  
• Hands-on experience with SQL, XML, and XSL. 
  
• Experience in developing concise and comprehensive test plans and cases. 
  
• Experience in automation testing is a big plus. 
  
• ISTQB certificate is a plus.
  
• A flexible team player respecting each other as unique individual. 
  
• With brilliant interpersonal skills, excellent communication, strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
  
• With a voracious hunger to learn and a growth mindset.
  
• Having a mindset to challenge the status quo and willing to stretch self where needed. 
  

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