Job title: Test Analyst

Location: Edinburgh

Role type: Contractor

Hours: 35 hours per week

Who are 2i?

We are a leading software testing and quality assurance consultancy. Since our inception in 2005, we have matured into a thought-leading business that can, and does, support organisations of any sector or size. We have over 200 colleagues across the UK, we work hybrid and have offices across Edinburgh (our Head Office), Glasgow, the Midlands and London.

We provide a combination of high-level consultancy services that identify software delivery risks for clients across different sectors and size. We implement the processes, tools and skills to deliver projects that focus on providing the client with certainty of delivery.

What will your day job look like?

  • We are building a small team from scratch and the timescales and scheduling at times may be demanding - being comfortable in this situation is imperative

Your Responsibilities

  • Regression and Joint runbook scenarios preparation with third parties to facilitate regression and round-trip testing
  • Day to day test execution, evidence documentation, tracking test and bug progress, highlighting risks, etc.   
  • Stakeholder management experience   

About You

  • Must have CRIMS background and experience
  • Test Analyst with experience in Investments and the trading lifecycle using Charles River Investment Management System (CRIMS) 
  • Practical experience in using Azure Devops
  • Extensive experience of Testing Best Practices and Design Techniques 
  • Solid Background in Test Analysis & Scripting, recent demonstrable examples – Website / Application upgrade or implementation
  • Candidate(s) will be an excellent communicator both spoken and written and would never be reluctant to ask questions to ensure their understanding of the task in hand
  • Exposure / Understanding of 1 or more of - Financial Markets Principles, Trading, Asset Classes, Front, Middle or Back Office processing, Fund accounting, Fund Supermarket’s, SIPP’s, Stocks and Shares ISA’s, Retail / Institutional investing
  • Excellent organizational skills and a willingness to embrace complexity and drive out test requirements from the ground up
  • Experience of developing or shaping any application or enterprise level test pack a distinct advantage
  • Experience of Testing Best Practices and Design Techniques 
  • Adept, intermediate to advanced level with Excel and ability to utilise the other Office Suite applications such as Word and PowerPoint
  • Familiar with Agile methodology principles and Azure Dev Op’s
  • Comfortable with  engagements / hosting meetings with Analyst colleagues to ratify collateral and raise issues or queries with them 

What if you are a partial fit?

We value team players who are keen to develop and play their part in an ambitious and growing company. We can offer meaningful learning and development opportunities to match ambition and align skills more closely with the job description.

What is it like to work for us?

We are a professional business, so we treat people as professionals and give them the autonomy to do their job. If something isn’t working tell us; we empower our people to drive change.

Our core values are: inclusivity, learning, openness and sharing and we nurture these in our day-to-day.

We are passionate about Diversity and Inclusion. We celebrate difference and believe it is key to our success.

What we offer you

We unlock our people’s full potential. We do this by fostering trust, investing in them and providing autonomy. We offer meaningful learning and development to support this.

We reward our people. We offer a discretionary company and personal performance bonus and annual salary review aligned to the overall annual performance of the business. We have a range of benefits to reward people. We also have a range of events to celebrate success.

We prioritise health and wellbeing. We have a range of engagement events and initiatives to prioritise this. You can join our Health & Wellbeing programme where you will find advice on how to maintain a healthy mind and body.

We are passionate about giving back to the community. To give a flavour of what we do, each year our people select their ‘Charity of the Year’ that we support and fundraise for.

And much more…

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