Quality Analyst – Automation recruitment

Job ID: 11334

Position Description:
SunGard provides IT solutions for the insurance industry in each of the following major business lines: life/health/annuities/pensions, property and casualty, reinsurance, and asset management. Our software and services support functions from the front-office through the back-office--from customer service and policy administration to actuarial calculations, financial and investment accounting, and reporting. SunGard's insurance solutions help your business capture growth opportunities, improve regulatory compliance and optimize overall performance.

More than 2,500 customer sites use SunGard's iWORKS solutions
SunGard's iWORKS solutions are used in more than 50 countries
More than half of the top 50 life insurance companies ranked in the Global Fortune 500 use SunGard's insurance solutions.

About Prophet:
iWorks Prophet is a leading risk management platform used by the financial services industry around the world to model companies' financial business. Prophet's enterprise architecture provides the power and performance for models to run in a secure and controlled environment and fits in with companies' end-to-end infrastructure to produce management information required by decision-makers. It is used by more than 8500 customers, in more than 650 sites, worldwide in more than 60 countries.

Prophet Enterprise is now licensed by over 20 major financial groups, covering over 100 separate locations.
Position Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing new automated test scripts.
• Raising any defects/bugs found, making recommendations on the severity and priority.
• Undertaking effective reviews for the QA team's development work.
• Delivering regular reports to the QA Manager as required.
• Managing the regular cycle of automated regression testing and analysing and reporting on the results.
• Assisting with planning the QA activities.
• Analysing and reporting on the quality level of the software.
• Evaluating the current level of test coverage and ensuring this is acceptable and any gaps are highlighted and steps take to close them.
• Working with the QA, Actuarial Systems and Systems Development teams to develop, maintain and improve the automated regression test scripts. Analysing and reporting on the QA testing environment and processes, with a view to ensuring continual improvement.
• Advising on resources needed in order to carry out effective and efficient quality assurance.
• Managing all work in a co-operative team environment, using a workflow system.

Position Requirements:
Position Requirements:

Required Skills:

• Strong experience in a similar QA or Test Analyst role.
• Thorough understanding of standard testing principles, methodologies and terminology.
• Knowledge and experience of the full systems development lifecycle.
• Experience of developing and maintaining test plans.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Experience of risk analysis and related test estimation and prioritisation.
• Ability to work in a co-operative team environment with excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Familiarity with source control software, for example ClearCase, VSS or TFS, and its use in Software Development / QA.
• Practical experience of test management software such as Test Director, Quality Centre or TFS.
• Hands on experience of defect tracking tools.
• A desire to achieve and a can-do attitude.
• Proven ability to work without close supervision or support.
• Mathematically strong.
• Experience in using MS Office.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in a similar QA or Test role within the Financial Services sector.
• Any experience in using Actuarial Modelling Software or similar products.
• Experience of managing or leading others.
• Thorough knowledge of, and skilled in the use of Excel.
• Experience of software development/programming.
• Familiarity with any performance profiling tools including Windows performance profiler.
• Fluency in a second language

Qualifications:

• Ideally a Computer Science, Science or Mathematics degree or equivalent.
• Preferably ISEB or ISTQB qualified