Assistant Vice President, Global Testing Services

About Cls:

CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem.  Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective.  Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day. 

Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies.  We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.

CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.

Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people.  Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:

• Pivotal purpose
• Trusted guardian
• Targeted innovation
• Facilitate connections
• Delivering excellence
• Inclusive culture

Job Information:

• Functional title – Global Testing Services
• Department - Technology
• Corporate level - Assistant Vice President
• Report to – Director, Global Testing Services
• Location - New Jersey - Metropark, onsite 2 days per week
• Expected full-time salary range between $70,000 - $85,000 + variable compensation + 401(k) match + benefits.
• Note: Disclosure as required by NY Pay Transparency Law of the expected salary compensation range for this role.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Analyze requirements and technical solution documents to write Test Strategies for planned levels / phases of testing
• Contributing to the Project Test Plan (with re-planning where necessary)
• Produce Test Strategy and other project specific Test documentation
• Monitoring team's progress on allocated tasks
• Producing (or assist in producing) Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test Scenarios and Test Scripts
• Performing (or assisting in) Test Execution
• Performing the Defect Manager role for assigned projects
• Identifying and escalating Risks / Issues / Dependencies
• Providing regular progress reports to Project and GTS Management
• Liaising with project stakeholders (internal to CLS and third party) to address for example knowledge gaps, queries and any other such dependencies
• Attending / arranging meetings, workshops
• Providing training and assistance to testers to ensure they are following testing and defect reporting processes.
• Assigning and conducting day-to-day monitoring of the project test team’s assigned projects, tasks, and activities
• Performing test execution as required; testing the application to ensure it is working as specified, including use of test cases or on an ad-hoc basis, reporting defects and other issues found during testing in the defect tracking system
• Ensuring testing commitments are met within the project test team and monitoring for potential impacts to target dates or other Projects. Communicating potential impacts to target dates to the Project test lead
• Managing the JIRA (defect tracking) for all testing phases (update, follow-up and escalate overdue issues).
• Reviewing and estimating requirement change requests
• Reviewing and validating test results and defect reports by the Test Executers
• Contributing in daily and weekly testing status meetings with the project test team, and the overall Project team

What We’Re Looking For:

• At least 10 years of experience working in the field of IT to demonstrate sufficient knowledge on SDLC, IT Security challenges, Operation/support challenges and industrial standards on project end to end execution within a finance / banking environment
• At least 5 years of strong practical experience of leading testing initiatives, experience on producing effective Test Artifacts and monitoring of test execution
• Experience and knowledge on Infrastructure, Networking, Hosting setup, Monitoring, Performance indicators, System Failure and Recover, Disaster Recovery, IT Security and Operational supports
• Hands-on experience of delivering complex IT change projects in a fast-moving organization
• Experience of managing or working with teams within an offshore service model with different time zones
• Experience in producing various Test artefacts including Test Strategy / Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts
• Experience in Defect Management
• Experience testing XML, DB2/SQL, Linux/Unix, IBM MQ
• Familiarity with the ISO 20022 Universal financial industry message scheme.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including business analysts, architects, PMO, vendors and business users. Represent the team in working group meetings and collaborate effectively to achieve project goals. 

Our Commitment To Employees:

At CLS, we celebrate inclusion and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued. All employees have access to our inclusive benefits, including:

• Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.
• 2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.
• Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.
• Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
• Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.
• Employee Networks (including our Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about inclusivity.
• Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don’t.
• Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.
• Monthly ‘Heads Down Days’ with no meetings across the whole company.
• Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.
• Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
• Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.
• Annual flu vaccinations.
• Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
• Discounted Gym membership – Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
• All employees have access to Discover – our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
• Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.