Senior Test Specialist

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

Responsible for all test related processes, KPIs, methodologies throughout testing life-cycle of Avaloq solutions for key customer accounts.

Your key tasks:

• Test processes, standards and templates definition and maintenance
• Projects’ deliverables review (Test Plans, SIT/UAT/NRT Exit reports, Test Closing Phase)
• Review and coordination of Test effort estimates and testing scope for new offers
• Standard estimation templates maintenance
• Test Key Controls review and maintenance
• Monitoring and control of Test Key Controls evidences
• Provisioning of audit evidences to E&Y
• Internal and external audit phases management
• KPI definition for test effectiveness and efficiency
• KPI Framework creation and maintenance
• KPI analysis during all Test Lifecycles
• QC Application administration (“Application Owner” role)
• QC Accounts management and Users support
• QC Application monitoring (performance and issue management) and maintenance (Licenses, version upgrade)
• QC Reporting dashboards maintenance and evolution
• Coordination of new developments, candidate for Test Automation and governance of TA demand

Qualifications

• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• In-depth knowledge of Test concepts and methodology
• Experience and strong knowledge of the banking and/or finance industry or other regulatory environments
• Working knowledge of OpenText QC/ALM, JIRA, MS Office Suite
• ISTQB Certification or equivalent
• Knowledge on API testing
• Experience of testing in Agile context
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving competences
• Structured and rigorous approach
• Team player and strong client-orientation
• Ability and flexibility to work in a highly challenging environment

It would be a real bonus if you have

• Experience with Avaloq banking system solution

• Functional and technical knowledge of web and mobile applications

Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV/Resume submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.  

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