Planning and Testing Business Analyst, Senior Associate

We are looking for a structured and highly organized business analyst to provide integrated planning, requirements traceability and testing coordination across our Payments Business Risk and Resiliency Programs. The role will support SWIFT resiliency and other resiliency program delivery ,anomaly detection and payment traceability with particular responsibility for maintaining plans, test governance, evidence, defects, readiness and cross-workstream dependencies.

The three work streams share applications, data, controls, technology dependencies and operational stakeholders. A dedicated planning and testing role will help ensure that requirements are covered, test activity is coordinated, evidence is complete and go-live decisions are based on transparent readiness criteria.

• Maintain the integrated project plan, milestone schedule, dependency log, RAID log, decision log and cross-workstream action tracker.
• Support conversion of BRDs and charter commitments into deliverables, requirements traceability matrices, user-story coverage and acceptance criteria.
• Develop the integrated test strategy and detailed plans for functional, integration, regression, UAT, operational readiness, resilience and cutover testing.
• Coordinate test environments, data, users, scripts, execution windows, entry and exit criteria, evidence standards and sign-off checkpoints.
• Maintain test cases linking Swift resiliency fail overs, anomaly rules, traceability lifecycle scenarios, access controls, dashboards, alerts, case management and other resilience scenarios to requirements.
• Manage defect logging, severity assessment, ownership, ageing, retesting and transparent reporting to workstream leads and governance forums.
• Coordinate end-to-end scenarios covering payment creation, screening, anomaly decisioning, holds, repair, market ACK/NACK, client communication and audit evidence.
• Support volume, cut-off, high-alert, access-control, failover and recovery test planning with Technology and Operations.
• Maintain go-live readiness checklists covering procedures, training, communication, access, support, controls, monitoring, data quality, outstanding risks and contingency plans.
• Prepare concise status reporting, test metrics and recommendations for go-live or remediation decisions.

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Strong planning, testing, PMO or business analysis experience in a controlled financial-services environment.
• Ability to manage detailed requirements, test evidence, defects, dependencies and reporting across multiple work streams.
• Understanding of payment processing, operational controls or technology delivery is highly desirable.
• Strong Excel, Jira or equivalent workflow-tool, documentation and presentation skills.
• Excellent organisation, follow-through, stakeholder coordination and attention to detail.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business, finance, technology or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in project planning, business analysis, testing or PMO delivery.
• Testing, Agile, project management or business analysis certification is advantageous.

State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we make our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we have helped our clients safeguard and steward investments, providing investment servicing, data and analytics, investment research and trading, and investment management to institutional clients.

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