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

As a member of the Test Management team, you will be part of a dynamic team to provide global test services. The team is responsible for organizing all the test activities needed to bring into production new releases of the Avaloq products and migrate new Avaloq clients into our platform.
Your key tasks

• Responsible for all test activities throughout testing life cycle of Avaloq solutions for key clients and supporting the definition of a test factory.
• Client facing role requiring excellent presentation and communication skills and ability to manage stress levels in demanding project contexts.
• Contributing to lead the project-based test team, providing hands on Test Execution activities, and enabling it to deliver the highest level of quality across our testing services and practices.
• Collaborating in defining and maintaining the Test Policy and Test Plan
• Manage customer relationship with appropriate communication and coordinate testing activities with customer Test Manager
• Work closely with project manager, development teams and other stakeholders to manage risks and issues.
• Provide effort estimations and track the test effort to ensure adequate staffing.
• Monitor and control testing activities against planned budget and quality gates.
• Report progress to management and clients.
• Design, update, and execute functional and business test scenarios and test cases based on functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring their reusability.
• Manage test environments (baseline definition and maintenance, assessment on environment readiness)
• Manage tools for testing, tracking defects, statistics and requirements coverage reporting.
• Document and evaluate the result of the testing, investigate testing deficiencies.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of Test Management processes and procedures.

Qualifications

• University degree in Engineering, Banking, Finance, Business or Economics
• Minimum of 10 Plus years of work experience within the banking/financial industry especially in Testing function
• Experience with Avaloq banking system solution is a MUST.
• In-depth knowledge of Test concepts and methodology
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills with an emphasis on client service and presentation
• Must be an excellent team player and willing to share knowledge as well ad high level of stress management ability.
• Working knowledge of MicroFocus QC/ALM, JIRA, MS Office Suite
• Strong analytical and problem-solving competences
• Structured and rigorous approach
• Team player and strong client-orientation
• Ability to work in a highly challenging, fast-paced, and complex environment.
• Willingness to travel and work on-site with clients local and in ASIA region.

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 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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