Company Profile:

Fidelity International offers investment solutions and services and retirement expertise to more than 2.56 million customers globally. As a privately-held, purpose-driven company with a 50-year heritage, we think generationally and invest for the long term. Operating in more than 25 locations and with $783.6 billion in total assets, our clients range from central banks, sovereign wealth funds, large corporates, financial institutions, insurers and wealth managers, to private individuals. Our Workplace & Personal Financial Health business provides individuals, advisers and employers with access to world-class investment choices, third-party solutions, administration services and pension guidance. Together with our Investment Solutions & Services business, we invest $567 billion on behalf of our clients. By combining our asset management expertise with our solutions for workplace and personal investing, we work together to build better financial futures. Our clients come from all walks of life and so do we. We are proud of our inclusive culture and encourage applications from the widest mix of talent, whatever your age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, social background and more. We are a disability-friendly company and would welcome a conversation with you if you feel you might benefit from any reasonable adjustments to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process and beyond. We are committed to being a truly flexible employer, encouraging and trusting our people to perform their role in the way that works best for them, our business, our colleagues and our clients. We offer the maximum possible flexibility over where and when you work for all, considering your role and any local regulations. We call this new approach “dynamic working”. Find out more about what we do, our history, our new approach of “dynamic working“ and how you could be a part of our future at careers.fidelityinternational.com/about-us.

Job description:

Purpose of the Role

 

This is a challenging opportunity for database tester to work in the Client Reporting Technology Team. The analyst shall be responsible for end to end testing on the data environment which includes testing data virtualisation layer. The analyst would be responsible to maintain the test repositories for manual and automation. The analyst’s responsibilities would include formulating test plans, digesting manual functional test case and selecting appropriate cases for automation, creating the automation test scripts, executing the tests and enhancing automation coverage. The analyst would be expected to interact with a wide variety of roles, including development managers, architects, delivery leads, business analysts, test managers, manual functional testers, so clear communication skills are very important. Experience and understanding of investment banking domain and agile delivery methodology, would be an added advantage for this role.

 

 

 

Key Responsibilities

 

• Responsible for the test preparation and test execution on the project, including manual, database and automation and other non-functional testing.
• Developing the test plans including the detailed test cases and ensuring maximum test coverage.
• Planning and execution of tests in an efficient and organised way.
• Accurately reporting test preparation and execution progress.
• Ensuring that testing standards, process, procedure and methodology are adhered to.
• Maintain a current working knowledge of the key business systems and future developments.
• Ability to analyse defects and spot bug trends.
• Ability to accurately log defects, escalate issues and risks and provide accurate management reporting.
• Able to demonstrate consistent and good judgement of assessing severity of issues.
• Delivering tasks to an agreed schedule and quality.
• Promoting the principles and ideals of automation testing and transferring skills to other QA staff as appropriate.
• Work closely with the Business Analysts to understand the requirements and apply the same while devising solutions.
• Work hand-in-hand with the development team, architects and leads.

 

 

 

Experience and Qualifications Required

 

Necessary Skills are:

• B.E./B.Tech. Or M.C.A. in Computer Science from a reputed University.
• 3-5 years of hands on experience in testing databases, ETL load processes and SQL stored procedures.
• Strong SQL, Relational Databases (Oracle), PL/SQL skills. Designing simple to complex SQL queries, preferably for data reconciliation.
• Working knowledge on UNIX. Understanding of autosys or Control-M.
• Experience in test scripting, execution and scheduling.
• Understanding of automation test principles.
• Experience in working with automation tools for database and data warehouse testing and exposure to any ETL tool (preferably Informatica).
• Experience of working with multi-cultural and geographically disparate teams.
• Knowledge of Agile software development life-cycle methodologies
• Thorough understanding of test principles such as unit, smoke, functional (black box/white box), user acceptance and usability testing.
• Candidate must be familiar software testing techniques, test methodologies, test automation tools and frameworks.
• Experience and working knowledge of tools such as Quality Centre and Jira.
• Experience of working in tight deadlines in a mature ‘time-boxed’ testing environment.

 

 Preferable Skills are:

• Familiarity with the Mutual Funds and Investment Management industry.
• Understanding of ETL/DWH Test Automation principles.

 

Desired Personal Characteristics:

• Enthusiasm for an agile approach to development
• A real desire to do things the right way whilst remaining delivery focused
• Innovative and enthusiastic about technology and using it appropriately to solve problems
• Excellent communication/presentation inter-personal skills to present to/liaise with all levels of stakeholders.
• Ability to work well in a matrix-based and geographically-dispersed organisation
• Ability to pick up knowledge of the client’s business, new technology areas, new processes/methodologies and apply these changes in the day-to-day working of the systems organisation
• Ability and experience to interact with business users
• Ability to prioritise own activities, work under hard deadlines
• Motivated, flexible and with a ‘can do’ approach
• Team player with commitment to achieve team goals
• Disciplined and conscientious approach
• Keen to learn and develop proficiency
• Ability to thrive in a rapidly changing and expanding environment.