HSBC Group

Why join us?

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If you’re looking for further opportunities to develop your career, take the next step in fulfilling your potential right here at HSBC.

Global Finance is integral to HSBC’s purpose and strategy, playing a valued role in managing costs and deploying capital in the most effective way. Our global team of finance professionals partner with the business to provide trusted insights and forward looking analysis; accuracy; efficiency and control to frame and influence business decisions.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a Associate Test Analyst

What you’ll do:

In this role, you will: 

Value Creation: 

• Provide education to resources on the testing methodology including test approach, test policy, tools, and technique.
• Work with testers for continuous improvement of the testing methodology.
• Provide guidance to Project resources on applicable use of the methodology and project organization for testing.
• Support for test-tool introduction, test planning, staff supervision, and cost and progress status reporting.
• With good understanding of project delivery scope, timeline, and business requirements, define suitable testing approach, test strategy and test execution plan.
• Verify the quality of requirements, define the appropriate test cases, test data/profile and environment requirements.
• Collaborate with IT and ensure appropriate test data/profile and environment are created and set up for testing.
• Identify and arrange any tools and devices needed in order to meet testing deliverables.
• Keep track of testers’ test cases execution and defect management.
• Manage and execute testing, monitor success criteria, defects, fixes, retests and resolution, tracking and reporting.

Operational Performance:

• Identify risk, issues and any blockers that may impact the testing progress and initiate steps to mitigate the risk and remove the blockers.
• Report and update testing status to stakeholders
• Cover testers’ responsibility if necessary.
• Evaluate and recommend approval of UAT test result before sending to business.
• Be the Test SME of the responsible value stream and portfolio.
• Issue User Acceptance Test Plan
• Present and Issue Completion Certificate.

Capability and People Development:

• Documents test results and ensure all test evidences are uploaded into the specified JIRA/QC/Confluence pages.
• Prepares and circulate the UAT Completion Certificate for signoff.
• Conduct the UAT Test Evidence Walkthrough session by presenting test outcomes/results for UAT signoff.
• Participates and provides feedback in the project retrospective or post implementation review sessions.
• Work with Test Leads and Test Manager for continuous improvement of testing methodology.
• Participate in the team engagement to share best practices, lessons learned and improvement opportunities after each project completion

What you will need to succeed in the role:

Requirements:

Knowledge 

• Minimum 5 years experiences in managing and leading a testing team with end to end testing for large scale and major projects.
• Good banking domain knowledge in Loans/Mortgage/Cards/Liabilities, Distribution channel (eg. Contact Centre, Internet Banking), Wealth products.
• Strong experience in managing user acceptance testing, both in an Agile and Waterfall delivery environment.
• Extensive hands-on experience in planning, testing, and defect tracking skills including using a variety of tools such as Quality Centre, JIRA, Confluence.
• Understand application business area and application requirements, specifically in the banking environment.
• Familiar with test-program concerns including test-data management, testing policy, risk and issue reporting and resolution, test design and test development.
• Good knowledge of testing life cycle and proficient in working with test tools.
• Experience in working with diverse teams of different work streams.
• Extensive working knowledge and experience on test management and practices.
• Skilled Business Analyst with relevant experience in the coordination of SIT and UAT for multi phased project, preferably in using Agile practise.
• Language capabilities: Read and write in English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. 

Experience 

• Overall financial services industry knowledge with specific functional expertise
• Some experience gathering requirements, process re-engineering or conducting design activity
• Experience of communicating effectively with a range of stakeholders.
• Exposure to change implementation activity.
• Some experience of data analysis and interpretation.
• Good verbal and written communication skills and some experience in face-to-face presentation.
• Experience on defining and preparing the associated test data and testing profiles, creating test cases, executing the cases, capturing and verifying the test results.
• Experience in monitoring success criteria, testing progress, defects retesting, resolution tracking and reporting.
• Have working experience on test management tools and practices.
• Experience of working under pressure, to fixed timescales.
• Experience of coordinating the delivery of services from multiple internal and external teams.

Capabilities 

• Achieving Excellence
• Business Analysis and Design
• Change and Implementation Management
• Delivery at Pace
• Collaboration
• Due to the urgent hiring need, candidates with immediate right to work locally and no relocation need will be prioritised.

The chosen candidate for this role will be required to undergo enhanced vetting. Subject to local laws, this will require the individual to satisfactorily pass a series of additional checks as part of the recruitment process and on an ongoing basis, if appointed to the role. HSBC Group reserves its position with regard to any steps which it may take in relation to any material adverse findings which arise either when the checks are originally completed, and/or if relevant, on an ongoing basis. For more information about the enhanced vetting for this role please contact the recruiter for this role.