Responsibilities

• Responsible for the day-to-day management of executing to milestones and reporting on one or more Test projects.
• Manage Testing team/s with respect to on-time and proper execution of tasks, internal trainings, control and reporting to Senior Management.
• Day-to-day leadership, management & support of Testing projects.
• Active management through goals, key performance, and quality indicators with view of improving overall quality and timeliness of Testing delivery.
• Building and maintenance of strong client relationships that enforces the quality of the Service of State Street
• Building effective relationships with all work streams (Front, Middle Back offices) and other teams
• Provide functional test analysis, planning, design, execution and reporting for testing assignments.
• Estimation & Milestone planning for the project and provide estimates for the UAT.
• Highlight Risk and issues at management level in timely manner.
• Ability to identify the issues across teams and bring it to Management attention and bring peace to the team.
• Prepare where required: Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Test Data, Test Coverage analysis for a given testing assignment.
• Play a lead role in the analysis and reporting of test results, working closely with business, technology, and support areas to investigate and interpret test findings.
• Assist in the reception and quality assurance of the business requirements, solution design and business process documents individual projects.
• Participate in understanding requirements, resolving problems/issues, suggesting solutions, and identifying areas for service improvement.

Skills needed.

• Possesses 10 + years of experience in project management that includes UAT, SIT, Regression and other types of Testing projects, both manual and automated.
• Demonstrable ability to independently create a project plan, charter, forecasting, understanding budget vs actuals, variance analyses, managing stakeholders’ communication, project updates, project deliverables including tracking them to closure.
• Must have working experience in Trade and Order Management System across various instrument types.
• Experience in Charles River or any Order Management System is preferable.
• Very good understanding of the Front to Back-office processes
• Demonstrate abilities to work with people across geographic locations. Expected to be a good communicator in English.
• Possession of decent functional knowledge ( 7 out of 10 on a scale of 1-10, 1 being poor, 10 being excellent)on the Capital Markets especially Middle Office and Front Office functions. Knowledge about the UAT (User Acceptance Testing)  - end of end – is mandatory.
• Demonstrable ability to highlight project risks and creating plans to mitigate them.
• Demonstrable ability to understand, and work on Use Cases, arranging end user demos and creating placeholders for knowledge management.
• Demonstrable ability to train and retain people, promptly highlight people related issues to the senior management determining and delivering appropriate actions.
• Experience in defect Tracking and Defect Management Tool like HP ALM, JIRA
• Ability to be instrumental in regular end user client and State Street stakeholder updates with regards to the Delivery of the programme.
• Deep understanding of work order management and ability to define deliverables.
• Experience in Test Co-ordination, and Test Status Reporting
• Experience in writing SQL queries during problem solving and extracting data from various sources.
• Experience in Eagle, Portia, SIMCORP or any Accounting application is preferable.
• Experience in accounting functionalities - Pricing, Corporate Actions, Valuations, collateral, custody reconciliations
• Ready to work on the ground as needed, flexible and adopt to changing environment.

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