Financial Business Analyst/Tester

My international financial client are seeking a BA with experience in the financial sector plus knowledge of Testing.
It will be in Amsterdam for at least 12 months!

Job desc

The Business Analyst will be working with sophisticated investment teams that manage a range of complex products. This is a hands on role which includes specifications and functional tests definition for the features of an existing solution for data modeling.

Participate in the planning process along with the development team and the business stakeholders

• Assists the Senior Business Analyst to document the solution design at a functional level, and communicate this to the development and test team. He/she will completely involved as soon as possible in the functional tests with the development in order to improve our quality and efficiency.

• Can improve the functional test documentation and implement using coding language (.net environment) and dedicated tool.

• Can carry out functional end-to-end testing of software deliveries at a sufficient level of detail to verify that the functional requirements, and the business requirements, have been met

• Can develop, maintain and carry out regression testing, working at a sufficient level of detail to verify that there is no regression impact.

• Co-ordinate and participate in UAT testing with business stakeholders.

The Business Analyst will be able to deliver overall regression test plan, integration tests documentation and implementation in order to automatize the process, and when it is required, provide functional specifications of business features

He/She will be able to challenge developers as soon as possible in the development life cycle in order to avoid tunnel effect at the end

Technical Prerequisites

a. Detailed understanding of the investment process, including research, analysis, modeling, risk, performance and portfolio construction; understanding of liability driven investment.

b. Detailed understanding of financial instruments and related information (e.g. ratings), and the ability to understand how this information is modeled and transmitted by various data sources

c. In depth knowledge of the specialized requirements, and processes of the following businesses: asset allocation, global balanced risk modeling, strategy application and portfolio construction techniques, absolute return products, fiduciary management.

d. Knowledge and experience of TDD. Technical understanding of automated testing implementation

e. Pragmatic: capable of accepting the constraints imposed by existing solutions; proposing solutions that balance design criteria with practical end-user benefits

I appreciate there's a lot of knowledge needed here, so if you have any questions get in touch!

Thanks