VP - Functional Testing - Investment Bank

Opening for VP - Functional testing in a leading Investment bank,Pune.

Education / Experience :

- University Graduate with good honors degree; A degree in Information System or Finance/Accountancy is a plus

- MBA or equivalent masters degree in a plus

- 8-10 years relevant work experience in testing coordination and execution, release management roles - Financial Institutions Risk

- Solid understanding of project delivery lifecycle from initiation to rollout including all phases of testing - SIT, Functional testing, UAT, Impact testing and End to End testing in Risk

- Testing experience with a leading consulting firm within financial services with prior project management and business analysis n Risk experience would be advantageous.

Skills :

- Excellent analytical skills, numerically competent;

- Proven track record of coordinating project activities in a cross functional and global set up

- Ability to collaborate across teams and manage the testing phase of project delivery with the appropriate level of rigor and discipline

- Strong background creating project and test plans and getting them executed via various teams involved in delivery process

- Understands business analysis and functional specification design;

- Strong system implementation/ projects and testing experience;

- Understands data flows, business processes, financial products and risk management;

- Test case development (including test scenarios and test scripts) - plus but not mandatory

- Issue tracking and resolution;

- Proficiency in MS Excel and MS Access;

- Excellent SQL/VBA skills (preferred).