Senior QA Analyst (RLAM)

Royal London Mutual Insurance Society
London
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Job Title: Senior QA Analyst

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: London

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 3rd March 2025

We are looking for a Senior QA Analyst to join the RLAM business. You will perform quality assurance and testing on various applications that are central to the RLAM business, with particular focus on data engineering. You will be working initially on the ESG projects in RLAM where you will have a focus on loading and using relevant ESG data, regulatory reporting, and an internally developed UI.

You will lead a team of 2 to 3 consultant QAs in terms of day-to-day progress, issue resolution and continuous improvement, and appropriate planning for the 2 week sprints. However, the role will have no career management responsibilities for those colleagues and will be 90% or more hands on.

You will also contribute to the overall aim to provide an effective testing framework that will ensure confidence and control around the system change process for RLAM business applications.

About the role

  • Live and encourage the use of test automation to embed an automate first capability whenever feasible.
  • Create / identify / adapt reusable test scripts to provide full coverage of business requirements together with regression testing that will meet appropriate levels of control.
  • Execute test scripts and provide MI and evidence that will meet appropriate levels of control.
  • Investigate issues identified and if appropriate raise as defects, working with developers, BA's etc. to ensure their timely resolution.
  • Review and provide feedback on Business Requirements / User Stories to ensure that they are fully understood, unambiguous and testable.

About you

Significant & demonstrable QA analyst experience of:

  • Data in an Asset Management or other investment environment
  • Creating comprehensive test cases from complex business requirements
  • Data transformation / ETL technologies
  • Cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
  • UI testing
  • PowerBI testing
  • Test execution, raising informative defects and managing them through to resolution
  • Timely, informative and accurate updates / reporting, including escalation to achieve the best results
  • Test planning and estimation
  • Automated testing methods / tools / frameworks in Datawarehouse environments and for UIs
  • Agile methodologies
  • Strong SQL skills
  • Windows skills

About Royal London Asset Management

Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), part of the Royal London Group, is one of the UK's leading fund management companies working with a wide range of clients across the globe to achieve their investment goals. Our long-term, client-driven focus means that we have a long-standing commitment to responsible investment. We act as responsible stewards of our clients' capital, exercising their rights and influencing positive change.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.

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