SME Test Analyst

This is a remote position.

Company Description

Our Client offers a suite of broking banking wealth management and technology modules supporting stratified company and department configurations for trading clearing settlement margin lending custody investment and advice businesses. We design and develop automations for capital market lifecycle functions including EOIs capital raising order management corporate actions clearing settlement and custody management all integrated with a multicurrency enabled general ledger and treasury management capability. Our systems connect to market infrastructures and global custodians via all major messaging and interface protocols and we power leading wealth management businesses across distribution channels.

Our Client is a group of companies with head office in Wellington New Zealand with teams working from a number of countries globally (currently South Africa United Kingdom Italy India Australia New Zealand).

Role Description

This is a fulltime remote role. The candidate must however reside in South Africa. we are looking for a SME Test Analyst that will collaborate with Quality Engineers to ensure highquality delivery within project teams. Leveraging their subject matter expertise they develop test scenarios using BDD practices with input from BA s/PO s for use in both application development and automated testing. The focus of the SME Test Analyst is on business acumen in Quality Assurance supporting team members in understanding the business landscape from a QA perspective.

This role is strategically positioned for transformation as it is envisioned that over time the SME Test Analysts will transition to Quality Engineering after acquiring the necessary technical expertise for the Quality Engineering role.

Requirements

SME Test Analyst Scope and Responsibility:

Domain specific knowledge requirements:

To enhance the quality and speed of our QE team a working knowledge of capital market asset classes their respective lifecycle processes relevant laws and regulations and common messaging protocols is required.

At a minimum the ability to demonstrate an solid to comprehensive understanding of at least 4 of the following capital market / financial services industry areas is required for this role:

1. The trade life cycles from order entry to finalized settlement for:
   
1. Cash equities domestic or international markets (aka shares or stocks);
   
2. Managed funds (aka mutual funds);
   
3. Fixed income (bonds notes term deposits etc)
   
4. Derivative instruments futures and exchange traded options (ETOs);
   
5. Cash management
   
6. Foreign exchange
   
7. Margin lending
   
8. Securities lending
   
2. Corporate action events and their life cycles for:
   

1. Mandatory events
   
2. Mandatory events with a choice
   
3. Elective events
   

1. Settlement processes as these relate to obligations between the Market House Client
   
2. Common exception handling & processing. Examples include:
   

1. Failed trades
   
2. Decimal rounding convention mismatches
   
3. Bookings error handling
   

1. Custody processes and related omnibus accounting and management
   
2. Accounting and taxation as these relate to the processing accounting and reporting for securities and unit priced instruments.
   
3. Wealth and Investment planning and management especially discretionary investment management
   
4. Portfolio management and return & performance management
   
5. Experience with the securities (the payments set is a nice to have) set of SWIFT and FIX protocols
   
6. Regional compliance (initially based on the individuals place of residence but an understanding of compliance across regions where SecuritEase operates will be required over time).
   

Benefits