Test Engineer Specialist

Role Overview

The Test Engineer Specialist will be responsible for overseeing quality assurance activities across projects and maintenance initiatives within a Front Office Lending environment. This role combines hands-on testing, documentation, requirements analysis, and quality governance responsibilities.

The Specialist will also ensure that quality standards are consistently maintained across day-to-day activities and that best practices are followed by all team members.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the implementation of projects and individual maintenance tickets
• Analyse and document existing business rules within Front Office Lending systems
• Gather, analyse, and document user requirements for new IT developments, including related reporting needs where applicable
• Prepare comprehensive project documentation (business case, planning documents, detailed requirements, test documentation, etc.)
• Design, execute, and oversee software testing activities across lending systems and impacted downstream systems
• Develop and maintain structured test plans and test cases
• Identify, isolate, document, and track defects through resolution
• Provide first-line support and resolve end-user issues
• Ensure quality standards, testing methodologies, and best practices are applied consistently across the team
• Support continuous improvement of QA processes and testing frameworks

Mandatory Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Project Management, Business Management, or a related field
  • In the absence of a degree, a minimum of 11 years of equivalent professional experience may be accepted
• Professional proficiency in English

Mandatory Experience

• Minimum 11 years of experience in software testing and quality assurance

Preferred Experience & Competencies

• Experience within financial services, insurance, or similar regulated environments
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies and experience with agile planning tools (e.g., Jira)
• Proven experience designing and implementing test strategies and plans
• Experience with functional testing and test automation scripting
• Experience providing front-line user support in a financial institution
• Strong analytical and documentation skills
• High attention to detail and defect management expertise
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong collaboration and team leadership capabilities