Risk architecture Associate

In the Risk Execution and Strategy team you will be part of a User Acceptance Testing team that supports an ongoing execution and implementation of business-critical strategic initiatives.
This role will partner with technology groups business partners project analysts/managers and external vendor resources to plan and execute the testing.
Individuals will be responsible and accountable for managing all aspects of the business testing function. Define strategies and approaches for User Acceptance.
The function is considered complex in nature with significant business impact.

This role will support testing and implementation of business-critical strategies.
Understanding the intent of a business requirement
Formulating test approach and test plan and detailing the dependencies and risk involved
Execution of business scenario in UAT environment
Partnering and collaborating with stakeholders for clarifying queries and sharing the testing status
Ensuring testing artifacts are updated and saved as appropriate
Reconcile test results from different tests and different groups
Incorporate process enhancements related to tools and practices to unlock greater efficiencies and effectiveness
Partner with UAT Manager/Lead to ensure that testing readiness and testing execution milestones are completed
Responsible in helping to facilitate the quality testing practices in support of various products
Automation Activities (if applicable)
Communicate regularly with project stakeholders and provide consistent follow up on the status of Automation testing
Responsible for assessing creating and building automation tools for gaining efficiency or cost reduction
Reconcile test automation results with expected manual results

Required Qualifications Skills and Capabilities:
Bachelors degree or comparable experience
3-5 years of experience in manual testing along with formulating test plans and approach test scenarios and test scripts
Experience in JIRA process understanding of the process flow and creation of the task
Experience with Microsoft Office Confluence qTest tool
Writing and executing queries in SQL
Knowledge in Unix operating system
Experience with Agile and waterfall software development methodologies
Strong clear and concise written and verbal communication with ability to edit and prepare executive level communications. Excellent organizational and project management skills; able to manage competing priorities under tight deadlines. Proven ability to collaborate and build strong partnerships
Intellectual curiosity with a proven ability to learn quickly. High degree of initiative self-direction and ability to work well under pressure
Preferred Qualifications Skills and Capabilities:
Experience with mainframe screens business rules engines
Understanding of credit card lifecycle and cards transactions processing
Experience with risk processing.