BA/QA- UML

Our client, a leading financial services firm, is looking for a Functional Business Analyst with testing and UML experience.

The role spans the entire project lifecycle, with a focus on functional excellence from the project inception to its delivery:

-Requirement gathering;

-Functional design;

-Test plan creation;

-Test execution; and

-Service delivery.

The initial role will be part of the functional test team in order to build up the necessary product knowledge. Very quickly however, the role will expand onto producing the following areas:

-Business requirements: participating in business reqs meetings and defining future products

-Functional design: using UML (activity diagrams) to model the required functionality in its entire depth

-Test planning: defining the scenarios required to cover all conditional statements and using expertise to identify edge conditions. Ensuring alignment of the technical provision with business need.

-Test execution: executing the scenarios and having the skills and knowledge necessary to interpret the results and guide the implementation team in continuous improvement of the functional offering.

Requirements:

- Experience working in the financial sector would be an advantage, in particular knowledge of dividends, indices and equities products, although is not explicitly required to apply for the role.

- Experience in either BA / requirements gathering or functional test design / execution required

- Strong science/math degree

- Experience within an ITIL oriented service organization is a plus

- 2 – 3 yrs experience