Quality Assurance Support – Test Leader | S2 | Core Banking
Country: United Kingdom
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We have an exciting opportunity for a Quality Assurance Test Support to join our Core Banking Partenon and Gravity support team who are responsible for many of the bank’s key applications.

We are a diverse team of skilled analysts and developers looking for a skilled QA Test Support with extensive experience in the Software delivery process for Production (PRO) incidents, Software changes and Projects to test the End-to-End solutions for Personal Accounts and Payments for Retail and Corporate.

If you’re someone who’s performed a similar role already, this is the perfect opportunity to develop your career as Santander digitally transform our platforms and services to build the bank of the future.

The difference you’ll make:

• Leading testing, working with a small team both onsite and offshore
• Testing Digital Web applications (UI and Functional testing), Providing analysis in Build Automation Test based in Customer Journeys
• Provisioning Automation and Manual Test for the numerous applications covered by the Core Banking Personal Accounts team running on various platforms including IBM Mainframe, Linux, Oracle and Microfocus
• Analysing and reporting accurately, explaining and reporting test status progress and issues to both technical and a non-technical audience
• Delivering high quality supporting Zero Production incidents as QA principles

What you’ll bring:

These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:

• Extensive IT and Financial Services experience
• Experience in working across all stages of Software Testing Life Cycle - Requirement Analysis, Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test Case Preparation, Test Case Execution, UAT (Support) and Deployment (Support), Defect Reporting
• Experience in Personal Account process as Front End (branches and Internet portals), Customer Communications (Statement and Letter) and Back End (product parametrizations, accounts transactions and balances reconciliations process)
• Proven experience to manage and query data from Personal Account DB IBM COBOL and Oracle (Gravity)
• Experience working in Scrum framework and involved in Scrum events like PBI estimation, sprint planning, daily scrum calls, sprint review and sprint retrospective

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Knowledge in writing SQL queries
• Experience in API Testing
• Knowledge on IT project budget management, applied to test estimation calculation and tracking
• Proven experience in Payment’s transaction as part Personal Account support, Domestics, International Payments and Cheques

What else you need to know:

This permanent role is based in Unity Place – Milton Keynes.

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).

If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.

We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

Application process

If your application is successful a member of our recruitment team will be in touch. We will arrange a short call with you to learn more about you and what you are looking for from your next career move, as well as answer any questions you have about working in the Santander tech team. If both sides agree we will send your CV to the hiring manager to review. For this position, the interview process will be :–

1st Stage – Technical Interview – this will a 30/60 min technical interview with one of the team

2nd Stage – A one-hour formal interview where we will ask competency-based questions. This can be done virtually or face to face depending on your situation.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, please let us know.

Inclusion

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we’ll reward you.

As well as a salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.

• £500 annual cash allowance to spend on our great range of benefits.
• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.
• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.
• 27 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 28 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.
• Free access to a range of digital health services, including GP.
• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.
• 24/7 access to an online employee discount platform including retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more.
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates. Including: medical insurance, dental insurance, and health assessments.
• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans.
• Support your favourite causes through charitable giving and our community partnerships.
• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.

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What to do next:-

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.
If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at resourcing@santander.co.uk or call 0870 414 9080.