Consultant Specialist

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist.

Principal responsibilities:

• Provide consultancy on functional, application programming interface and end-to-end testing for the Client Digital Profile service.
• Translate business requirements and use cases into functional, non-functional and regression test scenarios.
• Work with business analysts, developers and test engineers to clarify requirements, investigate defects and support issue resolution.
• Contribute to test strategy, test estimation, test data preparation and automated test solution design.
• Plan and execute testing across direct-channel onboarding, customer profile services, Host-to-Host processing, File Upload and Connected Banking journeys.
• Ensure test deliverables, test phases and test cycles are completed on time and meet the required quality standards.
• Conduct test result walkthroughs, provide clear testing updates to stakeholders and highlight project risks or issues.
• Capture defects, support root-cause analysis and contribute to corrective action plans and lessons learned for future projects.

Knowledge & Experience/Qualifications:

• Knowledge of software testing methodologies, test planning and test execution.
• Experience in functional, application programming interface, automation and performance testing.
• Ability to analyse business requirements and convert them into clear and comprehensive test scenarios.
• Experience preparing test data and validating data quality for testing purposes.
• Knowledge of regression testing, end-to-end testing, defect management and test reporting.
• Experience working collaboratively with business analysts, developers, test leads and wider project teams.
• Proficiency in SQL and familiarity with testing tools such as Cucumber, Selenium, Tosca, Postman, Jira and relevant programming languages.
• Strong communication, coordination, problem-solving and stakeholder-management skills, with a proactive and customer-focused approach.

What additional skills will be good to have?:

• Experience testing digital onboarding, customer profile management or banking channel services.
• Familiarity with Host-to-Host processing, File Upload, Connected Banking or Treasury application programming interface services.
• Experience testing payment, trade, account or customer servicing journeys.
• Knowledge of Agile delivery practices and Behaviour-Driven Development.
• Experience supporting production validation testing and production issue investigation.
• Ability to contribute to automated testing frameworks and improve test coverage.
• Familiarity with service integration testing, data validation and failure-impact analysis.