About NextWave

NextWave is an award-winning Digital Acceleration Consultancy for Financial Services with a particular focus on rapidly driving business outcomes and modernizing Financial Institutions through technology. Clients come to NextWave because they have key integration, business growth, efficiency and control objectives and seek a more future-focused alternative to the big-name consultancies. Strategy, Innovation, Complex Transformation, FinTech Solutioning and Social Enterprise are at the heart of what we do.

We are looking to hire exceptional people to be part of our exciting journey and bring excellence to our clients. You will ideally have either a strong academic background or experience working as a data-focused Technical Test Analyst or Test Engineer within a Consultancy Firm or Solutions Vendor to the Finance Sector.

Description

NextWave are looking for an entry-level Technical Test Analyst or a Technical Test Analyst with up to 3 years’ experience who would like to specialise in quality and data assurance within financial services. This role will utilise best practice test engineering techniques including advanced test design, coverage monitoring, test automation, and continuous integration. A strong track record of delivering complex projects within university or a commercial setting from start to finish is also required.

This career opportunity is open to both of our locations across the U.S., including New York, NY and Tampa, FL and will be hybrid with 2-3 days in the office. We don’t expect candidates to know about testing, we will put your through training at the beginning of your time with us, as well as on-the-job training.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with clients to understand business challenges, gather technical requirements and deliver best-fit technical solutions – with oversight and support from NextWave test practice managers
Own the quality and timely delivery of test work packages within a software project activity, such as a release, sprint or functional area - including the preparation and execution of testing activities.
Utilise technical skillset to provide best-fit data assurance frameworks (including multi-tool, multi-platform, API, relational and non-relational databases, test automation and CICD).
Design, build and execute data-focused tests to provide demonstrable and appropriate test coverage and traceability.
Profile data and analyze results (including source to target extraction/comparison), and propose solutions for test accelerators and enhancements.
Identify, log and resolve defects.
Work with environment management teams to provision and refresh reference and transactional test data.
Maintain quality assurance standards and tools to conform to test strategies.
Produce documentation, or run collaborative review sessions, to communicate important information as needed.
Work closely with product development teams for continuous improvement in software quality.

Candidate Profile

Recent graduate with a Bachelors degree (ideally science, mathematics or finance-related) and/or technical testing experience
Capital-markets or financial services background
Computing or bootcamp style training
Demonstrably able to work in a fast-paced environment
Nice to have:
- Selenium with Python or Java, SQL, Postman/API/Rest Assured
- Test management and ALM tools such as GitLab, Jira, Azure DevOps
- NoSQL, XML, JSON, FpML, Fix Protocol, Swift, MQ Series or similar, Excel/VBA, CICD and Build tools such as Jenkins and Maven
- Experience of Order Management Systems, Trade Lifecycle and FS-specific systems
Creative thinker and problem solver.
Ability to work in Waterfall and Agile environments.

Strong written and verbal communication skills (English).
Excellent attention to detail.

Benefits

Competitive salary
Agile/ Flexible working
Professional training and accreditation
401k match
Health Insurance Plan

All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.

Our commitment to you:

We will provide mentoring, training and guidance (technical skills, soft skills and Finance business skills) from our leadership team who have many years of practical experience delivering business outcomes in the Finance arena.

Work pattern:

This is a permanent role with a potential for flexibility for agile ways of working, both formal and informal, that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients.

What we do:

We provide Consulting expertise and delivery services with a focus on a select group of progressive technology platforms which are helping to change the FS Industry.

The evolution of today’s digital business landscape requires firms to reinvent to stay relevant and succeed in the new market, at a pace not seen before. Opportunities and threats are emerging from traditional and non-traditional sectors, driving new strategies across the dimensions of clients, competition, data, innovation and value. A new stack of FinTech platform technologies are enabling firms to reinvent their value proposition to collaborate and compete on customer experience, data insights, operational resilience and time to market.

Location:

You will be based in the NextWave Americas New York office, however, travel may be required for client based projects and some projects will be located fully at client office locations.

NextWave is accepting applications for this position which is anticipated to start in September.

Junior Test Analyst

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