Test Analyst, Open Link – UAT Services Team (23 month FTC/Secondment)

Job Description

Job title: Test Analyst, Open Link – UAT Services Team (23 month FTC/Secondment)

Company: Bank of England

Job description: The Bank of England is the central bank of the UK. We are a diverse organisation. Our staff are committed to public service and dedicated to our mission of promoting the good of the people of the United Kingdom by maintaining monetary and financial stability.

Markets, Banking, Payments, and Resolution (MBPR) plays a critical role in our mission. They lead and support our sterling market operations, run the UK’s high value payments system, manage the foreign currency reserves on behalf of HM Treasury, and act as the ‘bank’ within the Bank.

Department Overview

OpenLink is a third-party application used to provide trade capture, risk monitoring, settlement, and accounting solutions across our financial market operations. It is a critical system with over two hundred users across MBPR, Finance and Risk and is integral to delivering critical business functions. It is supported by teams within the newly formed Strategic Change & Operations (SCO) directorate in MBPR and Financial Systems Solutions in Technology.

We are currently preparing to upgrade OpenLink and its accompanying hardware. This will be delivered via a project and, post-upgrade, the intention is to form a product team and continue delivering enhancements and functionality. This is a new role that will ultimately develop and deliver the OpenLink testing framework.

Role Description

We are looking for 2 Test Analysts on the UAT Services Team within SCO Change Delivery. The team is responsible for the co-ordination and execution of user acceptance testing for system change across MBPR. The primary focus of this role will be to perform high quality, robust testing of changes developed for the OpenLink system. This role offers will great exposure to the Operational Business teams.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is interested in working hands on with system change. Tasks include reviewing business user’s system needs, crafting test to endure those needs are met, performing testing, identifying and re-testing any defects. Along with supporting the Test Lead with the daily reporting to stakeholders.

Within the role, you will be responsible for tasks including:

• Engage with business stakeholders especially around more complex changes, to understand the requirements and have the ability to extract key information from documents, identify gaps and seek out the answers to questions with business areas will be important.
• Review and analyse requirements documentation to identify scope, produce estimates, produce test conditions and scripts and circulate to stakeholders for sign-off.
• Performing user acceptance testing in OpenLink and sending test evidence to business users for approval.
• Raising, recording and tracking defects through to resolution and helping to identify their impacts on planned testing.
• Producing test progress reports for business users and raising potential delays early to the Test Lead

Role Requirements

Essential Criteria

• Effective organisation and time management skills
• Attention to detail and active listening skills
• The ability to multi-task, act with urgency to meet deadlines, often operating to fixed time limits and working calmly under pressure
• A genuine interest in system change and user acceptance testing to help drive the ‘why’s’ of what you’re doing rather than just the ‘what’ and ‘how’
• Good IT skills with the ability to learn and understand the OpenLink system
• A proactive approach to work, seeking answers to questions and filling knowledge gaps to help optimise your performance and contribution to the team.
• Good oral and written communication skills with the ability to adapt to different audiences
• A team player, willing to help others to achieve results with the ability to work on your own initiative

Desirable Criteria

• An understanding of or experience in user acceptance testing.
• An understanding of how OpenLink operates at high level, either from a business, policy or technical point of view
• Able to identify and implement new processes or update current processes to be more efficient

The successful candidate is likely to demonstrate most of the following attributes and experiences, but please don’t be put off applying if you don’t think you have everything on the list

Qualifications

Our Approach to Inclusion

The Bank values diversity, equity and inclusion. We play a key role in maintaining monetary and financial stability, and to do that effectively, we believe we need a workforce that reflects the society we serve.

At the Bank of England we want all colleagues to feel valued and respected, so we’re working hard to build an inclusive culture which supports people from all backgrounds and communities to be at their best at work. We celebrate all forms of diversity, including (but not limited to) age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status. We believe that it’s by drawing on different perspectives and experiences that we’ll continue to make the best decisions for the public.

We welcome applications from individuals who work flexibly, including job shares and part time working patterns. We’ve also partnered with external organisations to support us in making adjustments for candidates and employees in the recruitment process where they’re needed.

For most roles where work can be carried out at home, we aim for colleagues to spend half of their time in the office, with a minimum of 40% per month. Subject to that minimum requirement, individuals and managers should work together to find what works best for them, their team and stakeholders.

Finally, we’re proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme. You can find more information on what this means . If you wish to apply under this scheme, you should check the box in the ‘Candidate Personal Information’ under the ‘Disability Confident Scheme’ section of the application.

Salary and Benefits Information

This specific role offers a base salary of circa £32,000 – £36,000 per annum (depending on skills and experience) on a full-time basis. We encourage flexible working, part time working and job share arrangements. Part time salary and benefits will be on a pro-rated basis as appropriate.

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 7% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits. (Note that from April 2023 and for the Benefits year 2023/24, this will increase to 8%)
• 26 days’ annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
• Private medical insurance and income protection.

National Security Vetting Process

Employment in this role will be subject to the National Security Vetting clearance process (and typically can take between 6 to 12 weeks post offer) and the passing of additional Bank security checks in accordance with the Bank policy. Further information regarding the vetting and security clearance requirements for the role will be provided to the successful applicant, and information about how the Bank processes personal data for these purposes, is set out in the Bank’s Privacy Notice at

The Application Process

Important: Please ensure that you complete the ‘work history’ section and answer ALL the application questions fully. All candidate applications are anonymised to ensure that our hiring managers will not be able to see your personal information, including your CV, when reviewing your application details at the screening stage. It’s therefore really important that you fill out the work history and application form questions, as your answers will form a critical part of the initial selection process.

The closing date for applications is 2 February 2024. The assessment process will comprise of two stages.

Please apply online, ensuring that you complete your work history and answer ALL the application questions fully and in detail as your application will not be considered if all mandatory questions are not fully completed

Expected salary: £32000 – 36000 per year

Location: London

Job date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 03:21:06 GMT

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