Job Description

Introduction

Through our client-facing brands Metropolitan and Momentum, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations. We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organisations care for and reward their employees and members. Through our own network of advisers or via independent brokers and utilising new platforms Momentum Group provides practical financial solutions for people, communities and businesses.

Role Purpose

Ensure the quality of all business and technology solutions is functionally and non-functionally tested, in order to meet the requirements and achieve overall sustainable quality of the business solution.

Requirements

Qualification, Experience and Knowledge:

Degree in BSC/ IT preferred.
Diploma in Information Technology
Qualifications preferred: Testing qualification ISTQB/ISEB.
Min of 7 years' experience in testing with min 4 years in test automation.
At least 2 years of investment/financial services experience
Exposure to diverse IT projects using a variety of testing tools and techniques.
Must have SQL knowledge.
Must have experience in an agile work environment.

Duties & Responsibilities

Role Outputs:

This person is responsible for end-to-end manual and automated testing for the business solutions. The solution should be tested in terms of functionality, performance, reliability, stability, compatibility, and integration with other legacy- and / or external systems spanning functional and non-functional requirements.



Assist with the testing gap analysis between requirements and existing environments accurately for all digital/data/application solutions.
Ensure that user stories are clearly defined and written correctly with acceptance criteria aligned with the team members in preparation for the backlog refinement meeting.
Define quality standards upfront in the PI and sprint meeting and ensure they are achieved
Document the test plan prior to the start of any project or planned operational work and keep the test plans up to date.
Document, maintain and monitor test scenarios, acceptance criteria and the final results to warrant the teams applications for the specified warranted functionality.
Continuously build test automation artifacts.
Execute and maintain the manual and automation regression tests.
Demonstrate deliverables to key stakeholders.
Test big data and ensure the outputs are transposed correctly.
Report on the team QA way of work, feedback on trends and solutions and continuously optimize the way of work to ensure effective and efficient QA practices in the team and with Momentum Investments IT Quality COP.
Contribute to the team's predictability by maintaining a view of the teams wholistic test coverage.
Minimise team defects by ensuring upfront code quality.
Drive collective ownership for testing.
Ensure/Report and champion the agreed quality standard and practice outlined within the MIIT COP.

Competencies

Role Competencies:

Working with people
Presenting and communicating Information
Applying QA expertise
Analysing
Planning and organising
Ability to prioritise and sequence.
Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
Following instructions and procedures
Coping with pressures and setbacks
Can work in a team
Able to multi-task
Out of the box testing thinking patterns
Skilled with end-to-end testing
Sharing knowledge
* Ability to drive and enable data quality