Senior Product Delivery Associate Payments Technology UAT

As a Senior Associate within the Payments Technology LOB you provide Test Management and supervision in a cross business cross functional project based environment.

J.P. Morgan is seeking a Senior Associate to provide Test Management and supervision for the Payments Technology LOB; in a cross business; in a cross business cross functional project based environment. Flexibility to provide Testing experience on other LOBs and support transformational Global initiatives withinTest Integration And Implementation(TII)Services. The successful candidate would also be expected to support the strategic roll out of an automated testing solution.

Job responsibilities

• Leads a test team which would involve daily supervision allocation of duties timely resolution of testing issues and regular communication with reporting manager Responsibility for the provision of accurate testing estimates within daily scrum calls.
• Planning against an End-to-End test strategy including test data environments defect management and test automation.
• Effectively lead daily Scrum Calls and deputize for the Program Test Manager in fortnightly Delivery Working Group meetings.
• Managing expectations of both stakeholders and teams supporting E2E test execution.
• Managing expectations of both stakeholders and teams supporting E2E test execution.
• Identifying of testing automation opportunities and test synergies within the Project.
• Completing a knowledge audit / matrix on each team member documenting any gaps taking steps to fill those gaps and ultimately ensuring that all UAT skills are transferable across the team.
• Escalates daily issues to the Programme Test Manager and managing expectations regarding testing and project timeline.
• Documenting and executing of test scenarios identify specific scenarios and write test scripts using Business Driven Development for example Gherkin. Partner closely with Operations Product and Technology groups.
• Taking responsibility for the monitoring and reporting of Testing defects and the re-testing process. Validate and present Test Results for internal Sign-off.
• Demonstrate organizational skills ability to dynamically manage and oversee critical testing tasks accurately and to tight deadlines. Develop agile project delivery methodology and skills to learn and work with evolving methodologies.

Required qualifications capabilities and skills

• Applied experience/expertise at troubleshooting resolving and maintaining 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. Ability to work with the minimum of supervision on day-to-day activities.
• Strong organizational skills ability to dynamically manage and oversee critical testing tasks accurately and to tight deadlines. 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.
• Experienced in using Cucumber / Gherkin Java Selenium or a similar tool is required.
• 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 LOBs 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.