Solution Analyst II - QA Automation - Payments

Job Description
Join our team as a Solutions Analyst II and be at the forefront of driving technical innovation and strategic business solutions. Your role will be key to transforming complex challenges into efficient, tailored solutions, fostering both personal and professional growth.
As a Solutions Analyst II in Payments Technology Team, you will play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between product owners, business, operations, and software developers by leveraging your technical and analytical reasoning skills. You'll elicit and document business and data flow requirements, translating them into well-structured and technically feasible solutions. Your adaptability and ability to lead through change will be crucial in ambiguous situations and in effectively handling dependencies. Your strong foundation in data analytics will be instrumental in developing innovative architecture designs and operating systems. Excellent verbal and written communication skills will ensure clear and compelling exchanges with diverse stakeholders, fostering collaboration and driving the success of the company's projects and programs.
Job responsibilities

• Take responsibility for the provision of accurate testing estimates within daily scrum calls.
• Document and execute test scenarios, identify specific scenarios and write test scripts using Business Driven Development for example Gherkin.
• Partner closely with Operations, Product and Technology groups.
• Take responsibility for the monitoring and reporting of Testing defects and the re-testing process.
• Assist the Test Manager as necessary in Project calls and communications with relevant colleagues.
• Validate and present the Test Results for internal Sign-off.
• Work with the minimum of supervision on day-to-day activities.
• Manage and oversee critical testing tasks accurately and to tight deadlines.
• Be expert in Agile project delivery methodology and skills to learn and work with evolving methodologies.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Expertise at troubleshooting, resolving, and using Cucumber / Gherkin, Java, Selenium or a similar tool is required.
• Functional knowledge of Payments domain and experienced in testing processes in order to define requirements, document user stories and test scripts through to test execution.
• Utilization of test automation tools, to enable the efficient and timely E2E test execution, therefore previous experience of automated testing is required.
• Experienced in testing processes in order to define requirements, document user stories and test scripts through to test execution.
• Skilled at problem solving, ability to scope and provide structure to complex issues, rapidly learn unfamiliar processes and provide insightful and timely remediation.
• Excellent attention to detail so errors can be prevented and redundancies / opportunities highlighted.
• Ability to keep sight of the overall context and remain centered on the strategic picture, identify areas of opportunity for process improvement and build out recommendation to proceed.
• Ability to use effective systemic data driven reporting to support program reporting.
• Very strong communication skills with the ability to provide clear and succinct verbal updates on their work to team members, colleagues, senior leads, executives and clients.
• Ability to liaise effectively between lines of business with empathy and understanding to achieve the common and strategic goal as a team.
• Actively contributes to program updates, Project and team meetings.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experienced in using Business Driven Development / Test Driven Development test methodology or test case automation.
• Identifying opportunities to accelerate and synergies testing processes for assigned projects and syndicate the information to other team members to validate prior to implementation.
• Relevant testing experience within the Financial Services industry supporting multiple LOB's delivering in a highly complex, pressurized and high volume environment.
• Advanced numeracy and Microsoft skills, PowerPoint / Pitch Pro skills, able to create professional slides and structure presentations with minimal input and need for secondary review.