Hybrid Functional Test Analyst

at ZILO™

• Job title: Functional Test Analyst
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Functional Test Analyst responsible for software quality assurance in the evolving technology landscape. Engaging with teams to uphold quality and validate vendor deliverables throughout project lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in refinement sessions, questioning and clarifying requirements to uncover gaps, ambiguities, or assumptions.
• Ensure acceptance criteria are clear, testable, and aligned with business value.
• Promote a culture of quality across the team, pushing back where deliverables do not meet agreed quality standards.
• Review and validate work produced by third-party vendors/outsource partners, ensuring outputs meet contractual KPIs and SLAs.
• Define comprehensive test strategies that include positive, negative, boundary, edge, and exploratory testing.
• Plan targeted regression suites, ensuring appropriate test coverage for both functional and non-functional aspects.
• Consider upstream and downstream system impacts, ensuring end-to-end integrity of the business process.
• Incorporate vendor-delivered scripts into overall test coverage plans, ensuring alignment with internal quality expectations.
• Design, develop, and execute functional and UAT test cases to validate business requirements, including data validation (numbers, calculations, and results integrity).
• Verify integration and data flows between systems, ensuring downstream processes are not adversely affected by changes.
• Work closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and other stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of quality goals.
• Use automation and AI-assisted testing where appropriate to increase efficiency and accuracy.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years in software quality assurance, functional testing, or a related role with financial services experience (TA experience an advantage).
• Strong knowledge of testing methodologies, including boundary analysis, equivalence partitioning, negative testing, and regression testing.
• Proficiency in creating clear, detailed, and traceable test plans, scripts, and reports.
• Solid understanding of SQL and ability to validate data in back-end systems.
• Experience working within agile/scrum teams, with the ability to contribute to sprint refinement and planning.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to challenge and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Adaptable and able to multi-task across multiple scrums.
• ISTQB certification (Foundation or higher) is advantageous.

Benefits

• Enhanced leave - 38 days inclusive of 8 UK Public Holidays
• Private Health Care including family cover
• Life Assurance – 5x salary
• Flexible working – work from home and/or in our London Office
• Employee Assistance Program
• Company Pension (Salary Sacrifice options available)
• Access to training and development
• Buy and Sell holiday scheme
• The opportunity for “work from anywhere/global mobility”