▷ (Immediate Start) Sr. Tester with knowledge of Calypso suit of products in Front / Back Office Solut

Sr. Tester with knowledge of Calypso suit of products in Front / Back Office Solutions

1. Key Responsibilities

• Lead QA efforts on Calypso initiatives and follow scaled Agile best practices.
• Lead in requirement analysis, design, and development phases and determine testing approach for the Calypso platform.
• Leverage extensive Calypso domain expertise to develop test plans and provide direction to the QA team for test case authoring and execution.
• Drive test automation hand-off practice and support the development of test cases in a manner designed for automation (e.g., using dynamic data), thereby significantly reducing if not eliminating manual testing.
• Lead the test case peer review process and support the maintenance of authored test cases.
• Lead the test execution of developed solutions and deliver test reports. Types of testing include smoke, system, integration, regression (manual and automated), data / test-driven, and end-to-end testing.
• Develop QA close-out deliverables, including requirement traceability matrix and test acceptance report to support go / no-go decision.
• Collaborate with the Test Automation team to develop, optimize, and enhance automated regression test suites, and coordinate automated test execution.
• Work with Business users to create and maintain test data for functional and regression testing.
• Collaborate with the Calypso development team and test automation team to evaluate new test automation tools and solutions for Calypso API and functional regression testing.
• Support and facilitate user acceptance testing.
• Lead meetings and workstream sessions with team members, cross-functional teams, and business partners to align on business needs and deliver value.
• Lead defect triage and collaborate with business partners, internal, and / or external implementation partners on system failures, root cause analysis, and track defects to closure.
• Lead Responsibilities :
• Lead a team of employees / consultants.
• Work with onsite and offshore Calypso QA team members to plan, prioritize, and manage testing tasks and deliverables.
• Monitor team performance and report on metrics.
• Discover training needs and provide coaching.
• Ensure that the team is consistently delivering quality solutions to the highest standards.
• Understand and communicate process methodologies used in the bank.
• Communicate timely, content-relevant information to stakeholders including escalation of key issues and risks

Education :

Minimum qualification : Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent work experience is required.

Technical Skills :

1. Extensive experience in a Lead Calypso QA capacity, preferably involved in Calypso upgrade projects as well as migrating from legacy applications to the Calypso platform from initiation to completion.

2. In-depth experience with Fixed Income, Derivatives, Money Markets, Advances, LCs, and Equity products in Calypso, including their workings and lifecycle events.

3. Experience with Calypso Pricing, Accounting, ERS, Workflows, Reporting, Task Station, and Scheduled Task functionality.

4. Experience with Calypso versions 17.00 onwards.

Soft Skills : 1. Excellent

Years of Experience :

1. Minimum of 8 years of software quality assurance experience in agile development environments in a large, regulated financial services (preferably banking) environment is required.

2. Minimum of 6 years of leading QA

3. Minimum of 5 years of Calypso test planning and execution experience.

Tools, Technologies & Systems

Programming Languages : Calypso Product Knowledge, Testing - (e.g., UFT, Selenium, RPA), Agile

Project Management : Yes

Communication Tools : Microsoft Product Suits

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