Assistant Technology Change Delivery Analyst in MBPR UAT Services

at  Bank of England

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW

Markets, Banking, Payments and Resolution “MBPR” is one of four Deputy Governorships in the Bank and plays a critical role in the Bank’s mission to promote monetary policy and financial stability. It leads the Bank’s sterling market operations, runs the UK’s high value payments system, manages the UK’s foreign exchange reserves on behalf of HM Treasury, and acts as the ‘bank’ within the Bank of England. It uses its presence, expertise and influence in financial markets to inform and shape the Bank’s policy decisions and priorities and is home to the FinTech Hub to prepare the Bank for developments in financial technology. It is responsible for both the execution of resolutions when necessary and developing policy to make banks more resolvable both within the UK and internationally and to implement the resolution part of the post financial crisis agenda.
The newly formed Strategic Change & Operations (SCO) directorate is central to the success of MBPR. With around 120 staff, it works to devise and implement the operational strategy of the area and takes the lead on cross-divisional issues relating to: operational resilience; change delivery; business planning and oversight; challenge and mitigation of operational risk; people strategy including promoting diversity and inclusion; management and control of end-to-end business process and data flows in relation to market operations.

JOB DESCRIPTION

SCO Change Delivery are looking for a Scale H Senior Test Analyst to deliver change across a number of high profile M&B Projects and systems such as T24, FCRM and ISO2022 Swift messages.
The primary focus is to analyse change requirements documentation, implement and at times lead high quality and rigorous testing for Markets and Banking systems, and support the Test Leads with producing key test documentation. Providing challenge, both within the team and to stakeholders, on their requirements will also play a part. The successful candidate will need to use their analytical skills to review testing documentation in order to provide input to the overall test plan which is circulated to a wide audience across Markets, Banking and Technology.
This role offers good exposure within Markets and Banking, and requires a mix of skills from ensuring correct governance is followed to overseeing safe implementation of change to our critical systems, strong testing experience and an ability to mentor and coach more junior members of the team.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• Review and analyse requirements documentation to identify scope, produce estimates, with support from Test Analysts. Produce test conditions and scripts and circulate to stakeholders for sign-off.
• Complete and run the test functions across UAT Services and coordinate the defect management process. Track issues with business areas and Technology to ensure resolution is acceptable and received in a timely manner. Produce daily progress reports and raise any potential delays / issues to the Test Leads.
• Engage with business stakeholders when initially scoping out change. Especially around more complex changes, to understand the requirements and allow for informed detailed estimates to be produced. These form a key part of the UAT plans.
• Support the team, in particular by coaching and mentoring the Test Analysts (Scale I) to allow them to develop skills and knowledge of Markets and Banking systems and processes. Support a ‘buddy’ system for new members of the team.Support the Test Leads in producing test documentation (UAT plans,) and work with the team day-to-day to ensure these are followed, by both the Test Analysts and any relevant business stakeholders.

This role offers a salary of circa £32,000-£35,000 . In addition, we also offer a comprehensive benefits package as detailed below:

• A non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/95th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/50th) or decrease (to 1/120th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year.
• A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
• A 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
• 26 days’ annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection