Technical Business Analyst - CMC Markets : Job Details

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Analyst with a quality assurance background to join the team. You will work within a dedicated in-house technology team to create and manage a work pipeline to deliver new features and technology advancements to CMCMarkets’ customer facing proprietary trading platforms across Web and Mobile Apps.

Business & Technical Analysis

• Help with analysis, specification and documentation of requirements of new product features in close cooperation with stakeholders, developers and other analysts;
• Create confluence specifications, UIwireframes, and Jira tickets to provide a clear pipeline of work for the team, conduct walkthrough sessions with stakeholders and technology team members;
• Help with work and resource planning for change delivery, in collaboration with the development team throughout;

Quality Assurance

• Work alongside other analysts, developers and other test analysts to review business and technical requirements and prepare test cases;
• Execute test cases in a systematic and organised fashion, raising defects and preparing reports on test coverage;
• Conduct regular regression testing across the trading platforms and help produce and maintain regression test packs;
• Provide help investigating issues in the test and development environment;
• Assist the support and customer facing teams to investigate and resolve live issues;

KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• A strong financial services background with a good understanding of financial markets and retail trading platforms
• Experience working on requirements analysis and quality assurance testing within a technology team;
• Experience of using story/bug workflow tools (e.g. Jira) and confluence (or similar) to capture and articulate requirements analysis;
• Experience creating UImockups/wireframes for feature design on customer facing platforms across web and mobile
• Strong understanding of at least one tool for managing test cases and test coverage;
• Experience of manual testing on web and mobile platforms;
• Preferred experience of automation testing on web and mobile platforms;
• Basic understanding of waterfall and agile development methodologies;
• Demonstrable track-record of work in an agile environment;
• Strong problem solving skills;
• Able to work effectively with minimal supervision, taking ownership of tasks large and small;
• Some experience of automated testing would be advantageous.

CMC Markets is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability, or age.