Lead Analyst Tester

About Us

FNZ is a global organization with over 6500 employees based in over 35 countries worldwide. We operate in the Fin-Tech and Wealth-Tech markets. Many of the world's largest financial brands and their millions of customers use the FNZ platform. We currently have over 1.5 trillion USD in assets under management on our platform.

We are looking for a Lead Analyst Tester to join our Global Operational Efficiency team in  Brno, Czech Republic. The Analyst Tester team works across the below product streams
Platform Developers – FNZ Core Technology.
RPA Team – Focused on automating manual processes with Blue Prism.
Studio Team – Works with FNZ Studio.
Automated Email Processing (AE) Team – Uses AI for email classification and routing.
 

Required Knowledge & Skills

• 5+ years of experience in technology delivery
• Experience working in an analysis or testing role previously
• Experience managing people / supporting others
• Confident, and able to take initiative given a delivery-focused environment.
• Independent, self-directing and delivery-focused working style.
• Superior analytical thinking and problem solving.
• Excellent computer skills are essential
• Strong database and SQL knowledge is essential
• Excellent organisational, administration and time management skills.
• Strong team communication skills, confidence in dealing with internal and external stakeholders.
• Highly developed written and oral communication skills.
   

Preferred Knowledge & Skills

• Experience with defect management tools (Jira)
• Experience using collaboration tools (Confluence, Teams)
• Experience with web services, automation, performance and security testing tools

Preferred Industry Knowledge

• General investment/wealth/life and/or pensions products and the markets in which FNZ and our customers operate.
• An understanding of the regulatory environment FNZ operates within.FNZ Platform expert, including being an SME in multiple functional areas of the platform.

Specific Role ResponsibilitiesLeadership:

• Provide leadership and support for the FNZ Analysis & Testing team, building capability and providing support for more junior members of the team. Instil a spirit of continuous improvement in the team.
• Always put the customer first, take personal accountability for meeting deadlines with high quality solutions and constantly aim to maximise the value FNZ delivers to our customers.
• They could provide line management to other analyst testers within the team, and ensure that performance reviews and objectives are clearly defined for each employee.
• Define and help roll out process improvements across the team and wider (where required).
• Support the recruitment of new talent into the team.
• Help Project/Delivery Managers manage clients throughout the delivery cycle.
• Support reviews within the estimation and scheduling of build items
• Ensure, for their project teams, that they promote and monitor delivery KPIs and compliance data to drive forward continuous improvement.
• Motivate and drive best outcomes from others on the project team
   

Analysis:

• Have and maintain an expert-level knowledge of the FNZ platform and its capabilities.
• Educate and prepare customers (external and internal) on core FNZ platform functionality.
• Working closely with our customers (on-site if required) to develop solutions and test these solutions to meet business and technical requirements.
• Attend customer workshops when required and input into requirements on a consultative basis.
• Work closely with Solution Consultants to understand the agreed scope of a change and design solutions that meet the customer's business and technical requirements within that defined scope.
• Understanding the features that make up the solution from the end user perspective, ensuring these are documented accurately.
• Ensure that user stories of their own team are reviewed and are always effective, and accurate and they have the correct business outcome-driven syntax.
• Produce Systems artifacts as per FNZ SDLC.
• Work with developers and Delivery/Project Managers to ensure business requirements are met and solutions are kept up to date.
• Ensure that any new business developments adhere to procedural and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Perform cross functional collaboration to address gaps in the business and technical solution.
• Identify and document any non-functional requirements related to the functionality.
• Provide guidance and clarity to technical resources around the business requirements and user stories.
• Support the management of defects and associated root cause analysis.
• Functionally review build artefacts for the function area assigned.
• Interact with FNZ  Production Support and Investment Operations functions, as required, throughout the delivery lifecycle and post-implementation.
• Have a good knowledge of the regulatory environment in which the analyst operates and ensure that all solutions deliver a compliant platform.
• Be an SME in the FNZ platform - provide training and support for other areas of the FNZ business.
   

Test Design & Preparation:

• Ensure acceptance criteria for each story are defined and cover both positive and negative testing scenarios using correct BDD syntax to feed into automation tests.
• Review/analyze business requirements to ensure they are quantifiable and testable.
   

 Test execution and Defect Management:

• Define and maintain the project’s test strategy, test plans and test artifacts if and where required
• Ensure the team is aware and is following testing and defect management best practices and Jira is up to date
• Perform structured and context-driven (formal /ad-hoc) system, system integration and regression testing as required.
• Ensure the changes developed are to an acceptable standard by reviewing solutions, conducting regular functional reviews and testing the changes end to end once the feature is available.
• Ensure that the user stories are delivered to the client at an acceptable standard of quality and conduct walkthroughs of the delivered functionality with clients (as required).
• Author reusable tests and conducting end to end system, regression and mis-use case testing as part of the production readiness process.
• Assist with user acceptance testing or other Client support activities if required.
• Use and ensure that the team also uses internal defect tracking and test case management system(s) to document test cases, record defects and record test case execution results.
• Allocate work to other team members to meet the deliverables and support them in raising, validating and re-testing defects where required.
• Participate in defect triage meetings as required.
   

Collaboration / Communication:

• Provide regular and timely updates to the Delivery Manager on progress to plan as well as key risk and issues.
• Provide analysis & test project updates, as requested, to the client.
• Work with the Analysis and Testing teams both internally and externally (client side).
• Ensure that delivery issues are called out appropriately and where there are process improvements that would increase efficiency they are promoted, owned and delivered against. Support, mentor and develop more junior members of the team to build a fully functional and highly effective project team.
• Ensure that the Analysis Testing team improves its knowledge levels, through training and development plans and strategies.
• Maintain high standards regarding written and verbal communication to ensure that information is clearly and concisely documented and appropriately disseminated.
• Strive for excellency in adopting the FNZ Values and put the customer first, think big and make an impact, take personal accountability for meeting deadlines and delivering high quality work, constantly aim to maximise the value FNZ delivers to our customers.
   

Technology:

• Keep up to date with the latest and/or relevant technologies, tools and methods. Identify adoption of processes, technology and tools best suited to FNZ.
• Proactively identify technical (environmental, coding and testing) issues may impede test progress to enable early resolution of said technical issues.

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 What can FNZ offer you? 

• 6 weeks of the initial training program

• 26 days of holiday & 7 sick days per year 

• Home Office support (flexible working hours)

• Meal Allowance 100 CZK/day

• Extra paid overtime 

• Multisport card (available also for partner or child)

• Cafeteria system (600 CZK/month)

• 26 weeks fully paid maternity and paternity, 8 weeks fully paid bereavement leave, and 2 weeks fully paid emergency leave

• Pension or Life Insurance (2% from Contractual Monthly Gross Salary)

• Support for statutory leaves (e.g., wedding day, blood donation)

• Premium and On-call Remuneration

• A first-rate development programme and a chance to work with the world’s best developers creating platforms at the forefront of technology.

• Mentorship and buddy support to help you during your FNZ journey.

• As a global organization, with offices around the world, we offer travel opportunities and remote working, as well as real investment into your own personal and professional growth.

• Be part of a highly successful, rapidly growing, global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the world’s largest companies. 

• Remuneration and career advancement are based on individual contribution and business impact rather than tenure or seniority. 

• We provide global career opportunities for our employees at any of our offices in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, or the USA.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 20 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.