Join a collaborative quality assurance team supporting a major transformation initiative in a fast-paced financial services environment. This onsite Manual QA Analyst role in Boston offers the opportunity to work closely with business and technology partners to shape testing strategy, strengthen UAT efforts, and help ensure high-quality delivery across the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Review business and technical requirements to confirm they are clear, testable, and aligned to expected outcomes
• Design, document, and maintain manual test cases with strong traceability back to requirements
• Plan and execute pre-UAT testing to validate functionality before business testing begins
• Support system integration testing by collaborating with technical teams and understanding downstream testing needs
• Assist business users during UAT by providing guidance, clarifying issues, and helping triage defects
• Record testing results and manage defect tracking and reporting within JIRA
• Monitor test progress, defect trends, and resolution status, sharing updates with the test manager as needed
• Identify risks, raise concerns early, and escalate issues appropriately to keep testing on track
• Contribute to end-of-phase reviews, test summaries, and sign-off readiness discussions
• Support continuous improvement by sharing lessons learned and recommending enhancements to testing practices
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to build positive working relationships and champion quality throughout the delivery process

Skills

• 5–7 years of relevant testing experience in a change and technology environment
• Hands-on experience with manual testing, including test planning, test design, execution, and documentation
• Strong ability to translate requirements into clear test scenarios and test cases
• Experience maintaining traceability between requirements, test cases, and execution results
• Solid background in defect logging, tracking, and reporting using tools such as JIRA, Quality Center, or Azure DevOps
• Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and problem-solving skills
• Effective communication skills with the ability to work well with both business and technical teams
• Ability to manage competing priorities, work independently, and stay organized in a fast-moving environment
• Experience with data testing and a good understanding of investment management data
• Proficiency in SQL and Excel formulas
• Strong stakeholder management, presentation, and collaboration skills
• Comfort working within structured SDLC/STLC processes and quality-focused delivery methods

Preferred Skills

• Experience with regression testing and building regression test suites
• Exposure to automation testing, including setup and execution
• Background in data warehousing or data transformation activities
• Experience with data acquisition, data quality checks, and data presentation
• Familiarity with AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, or SQL Server
• Experience with Tableau or other BI visualization tools
• Knowledge of asset management tools, reporting, or investment operations
• Familiarity with Aladdin or Aladdin Data Cloud
• Experience supporting performance, security, or usability testing when needed
• Ability to contribute ideas that improve testing processes, tools, and team efficiency

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