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Test Analyst

Permanent - Full Time, Hybrid working

As market leaders in controlling financial risk, ALMIS International uses proprietary cloud-based intellectual property across a single fully integrated platform to enable global banking institutions to make insightful and timely management decisions. ALMIS gives financial institutions the ability to manage, monitor and report their financial risk profiles, providing their Executives and Boards with accurate information on current and forward-looking positions. Our clients value our dependability, accuracy, efficiency, transparency, and collaborative approach.  

Our success is built on our innovative and sophisticated FINTECH applications, and as part of our continued growth we are searching for a test analyst to join our agile scrum team. The role will be closely aligned with the Product Owner, Scrum team lead and development team, you will play a pivotal role in the success of the team.  

Key areas of responsibility:  

• Identifying products to be assessed in the software review process and developing test plans. 
• Defining appropriate tests to be carried out including the test data to be used. 
• Defining and maintaining regression packs. 
• Identifying tests which are eligible for test automation. 
• Implementing automation tests working with our graduate test automation engineer to reduce manual test activity. 
• Using your experience in Agile to participate in Agile Ceremonies to drive backlogs and sprint delivery and to help the team develop their agile efficiency. 
• Managing the test data by documenting the results of each test cycle to identify flaws. 
• Liaising with the software development team. 
• Running diagnostic and system testing and presenting the information to the relevant stakeholders. 
• Identifying and implementing processes to improve the team’s agile processes. 
• Improving knowledge of business applications and user needs and expectations. 
• Understanding and implementing industry standards and protocols. 

Skills & Experience   

• 5 years experience performing software testing 
• Experience of test automation (identifying, defining and implementing automated tests) 
• Knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes 
• Experience working in Scrum/Agile 
• Excellent communication skills and analytical mindset 
• Attention to detail to identify issues 
• Interest and desire to work in technology 
• Strong documentation skills 
• Strong analytical skills 

Any experience of the following would be a bonus: 

• ISTQB certification 
• An ability to work with SQL databases 
• Experience working in the FINTECH, Banking or Finance industries  
• Experience testing cloud-based applications 
• Non-functional testing, e.g., performance and capacity/load 

Not a 100% match for the role? No worries! ALMIS International will support your professional development and invest in your learning journey. 

Salary & Benefits

• Competitive salary as well as the opportunity to participate in a comprehensive training and development scheme to help you to fulfil your role  
• 31 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays) plus one day for each year of service (cap of 36)  
• An extra day off the week of your birthday  
• Contributory Pension Scheme, employer contribution at 8% following probation  
• Company annual appraisal & bonus scheme 
• Cycle to Work Scheme 
• Flexible/Hybrid working policy  

To apply please forward your CV and cover letter to our Head of Operations email – careers@almis.co.uk