Sr. Tester with knowledge of Calypso suit of products in Front/Back Office Solutions
- Lead QA efforts on Calypso initiatives and follow scaled Agile best practices.
- Lead in requirement analysis, design, and development phases and determine testing approach for the Calypso platform.
- Leverage extensive Calypso domain expertise to develop test plans and provide direction to the QA team for test case authoring and execution.
- Drive test automation hand-off practice and support the development of test cases in a manner designed for automation (e.g., using dynamic data), thereby significantly reducing if not eliminating manual testing.
- Lead the test case peer review process and support the maintenance of authored test cases.
- Lead the test execution of developed solutions and deliver test reports.
Types of testing include smoke, system, integration, regression (manual and automated), data/test-driven, and end-to-end testing.
- Develop QA close-out deliverables, including requirement traceability matrix and test acceptance report to support go/no-go decision.
- Collaborate with the Test Automation team to develop, optimize, and enhance automated regression test suites, and coordinate automated test execution.
- Work with Business users to create and maintain test data for functional and regression testing.
- Collaborate with the Calypso development team and test automation team to evaluate new test automation tools and solutions for Calypso API and functional regression testing.
- Support and facilitate user acceptance testing.
- Lead meetings and workstream sessions with team members, cross-functional teams, and business partners to align on business needs and deliver value.
- Lead defect triage and collaborate with business partners, internal, and/or external implementation partners on system failures, root cause analysis, and track defects to closure.
- Lead Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of employees/consultants.
- Work with onsite and offshore Calypso QA team members to plan, prioritize, and manage testing tasks and deliverables.
- Monitor team performance and report on metrics.
- Discover training needs and provide coaching.
- Ensure that the team is consistently delivering quality solutions to the highest standards.
- Understand and communicate process methodologies used in the bank.
- Communicate timely, content-relevant information to stakeholders including escalation of key issues and risks
Education:
Minimum qualification: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent work experience is required.
Technical Skills:
- Extensive experience in a Lead Calypso QA capacity, preferably involved in Calypso upgrade projects as well as migrating from legacy applications to the Calypso platform from initiation to completion.
- In-depth experience with Fixed Income, Derivatives, Money Markets, Advances, LCs, and Equity products in Calypso, including their workings and lifecycle events.
- Experience with Calypso Pricing, Accounting, ERS, Workflows, Reporting, Task Station, and Scheduled Task functionality.
- Experience with Calypso versions 17.00 onwards.
Soft Skills:
Years of Experience:
- Minimum of 8 years of software quality assurance experience in agile development environments in a large, regulated financial services (preferably banking) environment is required.
- Minimum of 6 years of leading QA
- Minimum of 5 years of Calypso test planning and execution experience.
Tools, Technologies & Systems
Programming Languages : Calypso Product Knowledge, Testing - (e.g., UFT, Selenium, RPA), Agile
Project Management : Yes
Communication Tools : Microsoft Product Suits
Must-Haves
- Working knowledge of financial domain and Capital Markets with Front Office/Back Office operations is required.
- Experience working with Agile/SAFe methodology.
- Experience with test automation and framework tools (e.g., UFT, Selenium, RPA) or equivalent automation skills that prove ability to debug automation code.
- Working knowledge of complex SQL and experience with ETL processes is desired.
Nice-to-Have
- Experience with industry standard testing and defect management tools (e.g., ALM, JIRA, Confluence).
- Proficiency in Atlassian tools (particularly JIRA and Confluence) and Microsoft Office Applications (especially Excel and Visio).
- Critical thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong time management skills and ability to juggle priorities with a history of meeting commitments.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Self-motivated individual who takes the initiative to thoroughly understand existing business processes, system integrations, and dependencies.
- Ability to quickly grasp business concepts, objectives, and processes to establish trust and credibility with stakeholders.