• Leading Wealth/Super and Investments Firm
• Great Culture | Remote working
• 12 Months contract + possible extension

Test Lead who will play a key role in the material uplift the Investment data management and analytics capabilities.

You will provide testing support and quality assurance across a range of investment data activities including outsourcing operational data management, implementation of an off-the-shelf data warehouse, implementation of a SaaS based performance & attribution system, data analysis and migration (from current systems to target) and the creation of end user BI and analytics.

Responsibilities:

· Create, own and be accountable for the overall test strategy across a range of distinct but related Investment Data & Analytics scrums and/or projects ensuring solutions meet requirements, are thoroughly tested and defects and changes are well managed

· Attend sprint planning and other forums to ensure testing activities are understood, documented and estimated accurately

· Attend daily stand-ups and other project status forums, working collaboratively with the wider team and contributing on testing progress

· Monitor and report on testing activity and test metrics aligned to project deliverables and reporting

Essential skills and experience:

• Experience in Test lead roles on data warehousing and multi-vendor integration projects
• Experience delivering data & analytics solutions in financial services, with a demonstrated understanding of core investment concepts e.g. Investment Risk Management, Hedging & Rebalancing, Security Master, Accounting & Investment Book of Records, Performance Returns calculation
• Experience using the Atlassian stack, particularly JIRA, Confluence and Zephyr for Atlassian
• Experience in self-discovery and visualisation technologies is desirable (e.g. Power BI, Tableau)
• Experience in Test Driven Development and Agile Testing methodologies
• Understanding of modern data ETL and integration technologies / concepts is desirable e.g. APIs, Excel Cubes, Tabular Data Models; Experience in managing the coordination of environment calendars across vendor and internal environments to streamline testing
• Demonstrates the preparedness and capability to work with highly capable technology and business experts to identify, understand and analyse critical business requirements and issues

Must Haves :

• Data warehousing experince
• Fund management experince
• Power BI/excel/python
• Any cloud experince - AWS is preferred

For more information or a confidential discussion, please contact Lavanya Swamy quoting reference: #206182

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