Assistant Vice President, Test Analyst

About CLS:

CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counter parties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars' worth of currency flows through our systems each day.

Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world's most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.

CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle - whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.

Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:

• Pivotal purpose
• Trusted guardian
• Targeted innovation
• Facilitate connections
• Delivering excellence
• Inclusive culture

Job information:

• Functional title - Test Analyst
• Department - Global Testing Services
• Corporate level - Assistant Vice President
• Report to - Director, Global Testing Services (Settlement Portfolio)
• Location - New Jersey - Metropark
• Expected full-time salary range between $130,000 - $150,000 + variable compensation + 401(k) match + benefits.
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    Disclosure as required by NY Pay Transparency Law of the expected salary compensation range for this role.

What you will be doing:

Taking responsibility for the project testing activities. This includes:

• Reviewing requirements, solution, design and other project specific technical documentation
• Reviewing Test documentation
• Providing resource and test effort estimation
• Contributing to the Project Test Plan (with re-planning where necessary)
• Analysing requirements and technical solutions in order to write Test Strategies for planned levels / phases of testing
• Producing Test Strategy and other project specific Test documentation
• Monitoring team's progress on allocated tasks
• Producing (or assist in producing) Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts
• Performing (or assisting in) Test Execution
• Performing the Defect Manager role for assigned projects
• Identifying and escalating Risks / Issues / Dependencies
• Providing regular progress reports to Project and GTS Management
• Liaising with project stakeholders (internal to CLS and third party) to address for example knowledge gaps, queries and any other such dependencies
• Attending / arranging meetings, workshops
• Providing training and assistance to testers to ensure they are following testing and defect reporting processes.
• Assigning and conducting day-to-day monitoring of the project test team's assigned projects, tasks, and activities
• Performing test execution as required; testing the application to ensure it is working as specified, including use of test cases or on an ad-hoc basis, reporting defects and other issues found during testing in the defect tracking system
• Ensuring testing commitments are met within the project test team and monitoring for potential impacts to target dates or other Projects. Communicating potential impacts to target dates to the Project test lead
• Managing the JIRA (defect tracking) database for all testing phases (update, follow-up and escalate overdue issues).
• Reviewing and estimating requirement change requests
• Reviewing and validating test results and defect reports by the Test Executers
• Contributing in daily and weekly testing status meetings with the project test team, and the overall Project team
• Main project will be related to the CLS Settlement service

Supporting testing/training activities

• Taking responsibility for the support for other departments' use of the testing environments, where required. For example - assisting business staff in performing UAT
• Sharing technical knowledge within the team

Following and maintaining processes and procedures

Following, implementing and maintaining processes and…