Testing Lead Analyst

The Testing Tech Lead Analyst is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness. There are typically multiple people within the business that provide the same level of subject matter expertise. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business. Work impacts an entire area, which eventually affects the overall performance and effectiveness of the sub-function/job family.

Responsibilities:

• Testing Strategy & Execution: Design, plan, and execute comprehensive application and system testing strategies, scripts, and deliverables across IT projects to support production rollouts.
• Requirements Gathering: Collaborate with business users and development teams to translate detailed specifications into clear testing requirements.
• End-to-End Methodologies: Partner with cross-functional teams to build integrated methodologies for testing complete, end-to-end transactional workflows.
• Analysis & Reporting: Analyze test outcomes, communicate results to project teams, and recommend effective courses of action.
• Effort & Dependency Estimation: Provide accurate estimations for task durations, work effort, confidence levels, and technical dependencies.
• Project & Quality Monitoring: Track project progress and quality metrics, proactively managing risks, issues, and corrective actions to meet deadlines.
• Best-Practice Leadership: Drive best-in-class testing standards, tooling, and technology adoption across IT testing initiatives.
• Mentorship & Problem Solving: Mentor junior team members and resolve complex technical and testing issues through analytical judgment.
• Domain Expertise & Flexibility: Apply broad IT testing and industry knowledge to execute core functions and other assigned duties.
• Governance, Risk & Compliance: Safeguard the firm's reputation and assets by adhering to regulatory standards, ethical policies, and transparent risk/control escalation.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years experience in Quality Engineering with an emphasis on automation (Cucumber / Gherkin)
• Must know Equities Cash Electronic Trading workflows
• Must know FIX Protocol, preferred native exchange protocol experience
• Proven experience with AI Prompt Engineering for all aspects of the testing life cycle is a must
• Basic understanding of Java code is a nice to have
• Ability to effectively use complex analytical, interpretive and problem solving techniques
• Requires communication and diplomacy skills to guide, influence and convince others.
• Ability to organize/manage multiple priorities and projects coupled with the flexibility to adapt to changes in a fast-paced environment