Senior Systems Consultant

Project Description:

Our Customer is a Leading bank in Asia that provides a front to back integrated platform for straight through processing and risk management.
This is a multi-year initiative where different projects run in concurrence under the program's variety milestones. These streams include new product initiatives, new entity roll-outs and regulatory compliances.
We will have key roles in projects such as managing the scope, design and delivering requirements from front to back office.

Responsibilities:

. Define the testing strategy and framework to ensure a high standard of testing and quality assurance is in place
. Plan and manage various phases of testing (SIT, UFT, UAT & Regression)
. Manage the test preparation, test cycles & test environment
. Engage test automation team for planning, scripting and execution of test scripts
. Chair the test progress meeting
. Conduct defect triage meetings with Vendor, Users and IT teams
. Plan and manage the runbook for all testing phases, Mock Runs & Production Implementations
. Report test progress and Issues (Daily, Weekly)
. Provide metrics and status updates for organization reporting
. Work with different IT teams across infrastructure and various business divisions to deliver testing solutions for the business.
. Be the focal point of contact for Business testing needs
. Liaise with technical lead / Project managers to manage expectations for each of the testing stages of projects. Agree quality gate criteria and corrective actions
. Stakeholder management
. Adhere to the Bank's Service Management guidelines (ITIL) and participate and provide recommendations in process, service and system improvements

Mandatory Skills Description:

. 15+ years of software testing experience
. 5+ years of Murex software testing experience
. 4+ years of experience as Test Manager on Murex platform
. Knowledge on financial market products
. Understanding of bank's front, middle and back office operations, finance and accounting. Experience and management of at least one Front to Back implementation within a financial services organization
. Experience in vendor management and good IT risk understanding.
. Understanding of Murex automation using GUI tools such as QTP as well as Report comparison tools.
. Experience on murex setup and functional tests using various module of murex.
. Ability to work independently and take decisions
. Experience in working direct with Technical leads, project managers and Business Analysts in business and IT organization
. Experience with Principles, methods, techniques and tools for the effective management of the testing process
. Experience of the execution of tests throughout the lifecycle of development projects
. Excellent communication, inter-personal skills and problem solving skills

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

. MxTest experience