Lead Analyst Tester Birmingham, England
Job description
Lead Analyst Tester - Needs to be based either in Edinburgh, Birmingham or Newcastle
Salary - £55,000 - £65,000
Would you like to have the opportunity to be part of a highly successful, rapidly growing, global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the world’s largest companies?
A Lead Analyst Tester is needed for a leading Fintech company that is rapidly expanding globally and offering an opportunity for an incredible career with a massive upward trajectory.
About the role:
this role will undertake all the duties of the lead analyst tester role but with some additional leadership responsibilities.
This role requires an expert level knowledge of our client's platform capabilities and a deep understanding of assigned functional areas of the platform. They will work on a consultative basis to support Solution Consultants in workshops and provide input into requirements.
What you will be doing:
- Providing leadership and support for our client's Analysis & Testing team, building capability and providing support for more junior members of the team. Instil a spirit of continuous improvement in the team.
- Provide line management to other analyst testers within the team, ensure that performance reviews and objectives are clearly defined for each employee.
- Define and help rollout process improvements across the team and wider (where required)
- Support the recruitment of new talent into the team
- Help Project/Delivery Managers in managing clients throughout the delivery cycle.
- Support reviews within the estimation and scheduling of build items
- Ensure, for their project teams, that they promote and monitor delivery KPIs and compliance data to drive forward continuous improvement.
- Motivate and drive best outcomes from others on the project team
What you will need to have:
- Experience in an analysis or testing environment.
- General investment/wealth/life and/or pensions products and the markets in which our client's customers operate.
- An understanding of the regulatory environment our client operates within.
- Being an SME in multiple functional areas of the platform.
- 5+ years of experience in technology delivery in the financial services/wealth market.
- 1st class degree or equivalent experience
- Experience working within an analysis or testing role previously.
- Confident, and able to take initiative given client– and delivery-focused environment.
- Independent, self-directing and delivery focused working style.
- Superior analytical thinking.
- Intermediate computer skills essential (SQL experience desirable)
- Excellent organisational, administration and time management skills.
- Good team communication skills, confident in dealing with internal and external clients.
- Highly developed written and oral communication skills.
If you think you would be a good fit for this role, please feel free to apply to the role directly or feel free to message me directly for a confidential chat.
