QA Analyst- London

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking an QA Analyst (BAU & Platform Support) to work for our client within the Financial Services sector. This is initially a 6 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in London.

Our client is seeking an experienced QA Analyst to join its Run the Bank (RTB) QA team within Architecture & Engineering. The team supports Capital Markets and Corporate Banking. It tests changes to business-critical applications to reduce the risk of operational disruption, processing errors and compliance issues. You'll test BAU changes, releases and production fixes, combining hands-on functional and regression testing with SQL data validation, defect investigation and test evidence. You'll work closely with Business Analysts, Developers, Production Support, Release Management and business users across a range of investment banking applications.

Responsibilities:

• Review requirements and acceptance criteria, assess risk and define proportionate test approaches for BAU changes, releases, production fixes and hotfixes.
• Design and execute functional, SIT, regression, smoke, sanity and defect-retest scenarios across Front, Middle and Back Office processes.
• Perform hands-on testing across Front Office/trading and wider investment banking applications, understanding 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, supporting triage and root cause analysis, and verifying fixes before closure.
• Maintain audit-ready requirements-to-test-to-defect traceability and supporting evidence.
• Apply a risk-based testing approach, prioritising coverage by production impact, system criticality and business deadlines.
• Report clearly on test progress, defects, risks and release readiness, and support UAT and regression automation where needed.