Test Lead Engineer - Finance and Accounting Systems

Client overview:

A great opportunity to join a rapidly growing Professional Digital Services organization to spearhead a flagship project for a prestigious insurance firm client. If you are passionate about quality assurance and have experience in finance and accounting systems, then this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Responsibilities:

• Provide expertise in delivering QA solutions for Finance & Accounting systems.
• Work with stakeholders to establish test strategy, approach, and UAT process.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to prepare comprehensive finance test strategies.
• Set up test data requirements strategy.
• Develop and implement an automation test strategy.
• Ensure all requirements are testable.
• Run finance reconciliations and other period end processes.
• Validate API calls and file load processes.
• Manage test defect resolution and reporting.
• Lead a QA team based in London and Mumbai.
• Support resolution of QA team escalations and issues.
• Mentor and guide the team on QA processes and best practices.

In short, you will be responsible for providing QA leadership and expertise for Finance & Accounting systems. You will work with stakeholders to develop and implement test strategies, and you will lead a team of QA engineers. You will also be responsible for ensuring the quality of Finance & Accounting systems through testing and reporting.

Skills and Experience:

• 12+ years of experience in finance and accounting testing.
• 5+ years of experience working with clients in the insurance industry.
• Expertise in a variety of testing methods, including manual, automated, and performance testing.
• Strong understanding of the trial balance, profit and loss account, invoicing, credit notes, and general ledger management processes.
• Ability to write SQL queries for testing data population.
• Experience with API testing using Postman or similar tools.
• Knowledge of Azure Dev Ops pipelines and testing processes.
• Experience in defect management.
• Proficient in Agile / Scrum project methodology.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Education:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience