QA Analyst- London

Role overview

Testing and release responsibilities

• Review requirements and acceptance criteria, assess risk and define test approaches for BAU changes, releases, production fixes and hotfixes.
• Design and execute functional, system integration, regression, smoke, sanity and defect-retest scenarios across Front, Middle and Back Office processes.
• Test Front Office/trading and wider investment-banking applications, considering end-to-end trade flows, interfaces and upstream/downstream dependencies.
• Use SQL to validate data, transformations, interfaces, batch outputs, reconciliations and downstream reporting.
• Log and manage defects through their lifecycle in Jira/Xray, support triage and root cause analysis, and verify fixes before closure.
• Maintain audit-ready requirements-to-test-to-defect traceability and supporting evidence.
• Prioritize test coverage by production impact, system criticality and business deadlines.
• Report test progress, defects, risks and release readiness, and support UAT and regression automation when needed.

Required experience and skills

• Strong hands-on functional, system integration and regression testing experience in investment banking, capital markets or a similar regulated environment.
• QA experience with Front Office/trading or investment-banking systems and a good understanding of trade flows across Front, Middle and Back Office.
• Strong SQL and data validation skills, including reconciliation across source and target systems.
• Experience testing APIs, middleware, interfaces and batch-processing solutions.
• Experience using Jira and Xray, or equivalent tools, for test management, traceability and defect management.
• Strong analytical and defect-investigation skills, with a sound grasp of risk-based testing for hotfixes and business-critical changes.
• Clear communicator, confident working with business users and technical teams and raising quality risks early.

Desirable experience

• Knowledge of securities products (fixed income, equities or derivatives), regulatory reporting (MiFID II, EMIR, SFTR), or automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Postman, Java or Python is desirable.
• ISTQB certification is desirable.

Workplace

• The role is hybrid and based in London.

Benefits

• FDM advertises career coaching, mentoring, upskilling, annual leave and a workplace pension.
• FDM also advertises assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad.