Data Analyst

This role involves leading test scenario and test case development, UAT coordination and execution, data reconciliation, defect management, requirements traceability, interface testing, and stakeholder coordination for a core system migration in a financial services environment. You will translate business requirements into traceable test cases, coordinate UAT cycles, support parallel-run reconciliation, manage defects through closure, maintain requirements traceability, validate system interfaces, and prepare comprehensive testing documentation and status reports.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT, Mathematics/Statistics, Business Administration/Management, Commerce, Economics, Finance, Accounting, or related disciplines. Minimum of 3 years in software testing, quality assurance, business analysis, or data reconciliation, preferably within banking, payments, or financial services. Demonstrated experience designing and executing structured test cases, with a working understanding of positive, negative, boundary, and regression testing approaches. Skilled in SQL, with the ability to query and reconcile data independently across source and target systems. Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to interpret complex data, isolate the root cause of a variance, and distinguish a system defect from a difference in business rule interpretation. Excellent working knowledge of MS Excel for reconciliation, variance analysis, and test reporting, including lookup and pivot functions on large datasets. Proficient in test management and project tracking tools such as Jira, Test

Rail, Azure DevOps, or equivalent. Exceptional attention to detail, with the discipline to capture test evidence completely and consistently under schedule pressure. Excellent communicator, able to guide non-technical business testers through execution and to articulate defects clearly to technical teams and to the vendor. Prior involvement in a core system migration, card management system implementation, or payment scheme migration is strongly preferred.

Key responsibilities

Translate approved business requirements into atomic, traceable test scenarios and test cases covering positive, negative, boundary and data-flow conditions, with particular attention to boundary conditions on derived fields such as days past due, delinquency bucket, account status and end net receivables. Coordinate and execute UAT cycles, prepare test environments and test data, schedule and facilitate testing sessions, guide business testers through execution, and capture results with supporting evidence. Support parallel-run reconciliation between legacy and target platforms, comparing report outputs measure by measure across consecutive monthly cycles and investigating variances to root cause. Log, classify, and track defects raised during UAT through to closure, assigning severity and business impact, maintaining the defect register, and preparing defect ageing and severity analyses. Maintain the requirements traceability matrix linking each business requirement to its acceptance criteria, test scenarios, test cases, execution results, and sign-off evidence. Support testing of interfaces between the new card management system and the Loan Origination System, Collections system, Fraud Monitoring system, and Cloud Data Platform. Prepare and present UAT status reports covering execution progress, pass and fail rates, open defects by severity, and outstanding risks to sign-off. Maintain complete and current testing documentation including test plans, test scripts, execution logs, evidence files, reconciliation results, and sign-off records. Act as a coordination point between business testers, internal IT teams, and the vendor's implementation and testing resources during test execution.