Test Analyst (Amsterdam)

Role: Test Analyst
Duration: 3 months+
Start Date: 08-10-2012
Location: Amsterdam

Scope of Work: Role Purpose:
Coach/Work with off-shore analyst tea
Manage in-time delivery of Analyst Deliverables from the whole Analyst team
Work with colleagues to establish, plan and manage the work necessary to perform and monitor testing for complex cross-functional projects.
Identify and manage interdependencies. Work will typically be within a single business area but may have multiple dependencies to other business areas.
Responsibility for the integrity and consistency of testing required at all stages of the project life cycle.
Provides testing expertise to key work streams, working within the full end-to-end project life cycle and Governance processes.

Key Role Deliverables:
Application of business testing methods and techniques, in line with bank and industry best practice.
Delivery of testing activities: design, planning and/or execution.
Assist project initiation, contributing to project test strategies and the supporting resource and financial plans.
Establish and obtain sign off for testing as required by the business function, in respect of complex and wide ranging changes - these plans to be realistic and effectively cover the distribution of own work and that of others.
Provision of management information on Business Testing activities at project level.
Represent business testing at appropriate governance forums, as required.
Ensure that integrity of the test environment, and associated data, is maintained.
Contribute to the development of the test plans and produce associated test completion reports.

Detailed responsibilities:
Execute Test Analyses
Analyze requirements and liaise with business/BA's if required
Work closely with offshore team on all deliverables
Create test assets (conditions & scripts)
Work with business/BA's to prioritise requirements/scripts
Prepare test data
Support offshore testers during test execution phases
Raise and monitor defects and issues
Attend daily meetings as required
Highlight risks and issues

Keywords: test. test analyst, test data, test plan