Defect Manager - Test Specialist, Derivatives, Banking

Defect Manager - Derivatives, Test Specialist, Testing, Defect Management, Quality Center, Banking - £350p/d - £450p/d

Our client's business is at the very heart of the London banking community and is a stable member and well regarded institution within city finance circles. Our client's IT systems help support the trading of items such as derivatives swaps and fixed income products. Our client's position in London will further benefit as the banking world adjusts to a more regulated and structured environment. As a highly established and one of just two preferred suppliers to this client we have been asked to recruit a Contract Defect Manager to join within the Derivatives Programme team.
OVERALL FUNCTIONAL OBJECTIVE
To ensure the effective administration of defects within each of the Derivatives projects comprising the Programme. Tasks to include: producing defect status and progress reports both periodically and on request, and ensuring the project members follow the guidelines in recording and maintaining defects.

Role requires:
1. Experience of performing a defect management role in an IT project environment,
2. Experienced use of Quality Center to administer and extract management reports, and
3. Advanced level knowledge of Excel to produce management reports to spec.
Tasks:
*Ensuring that the Defect Management system (using Quality Center) is used appropriately
*To set up the system to enable recording and maintaining of defects
*To develop processes in using the system so that both the company standards are followed and the project specific objectives are met
*To educate users in how to use the system
*To police the usage and ensure corrections are made
*To support each test stream lead in the administration of defects within the various test phases
*Ensuring the defect status, priority and other information reflects the correct state of play of the project
*To run meetings where defects are analysed and actions taken to set appropriate status or priority
*To assign and manage actions taken
*To provide support to ensure defects are updated accordingly
*Ensuring defect status, progress of being resolved, comparison between phases, cycles or releases, or general information can be reported
*To take various customer requests and produce solutions to suit all
*To extract the information from QC and format the reports using advanced Excel to produce graphs and charts
*To produce and distribute reports both run periodically and on demand
*To work with others on the project team to ensure the Synapse solution is delivered to quality and on time
*Contribute to the development of the Synapse solution by working with the Project Managers, QA Manager, Test Managers and Leads in providing the support processes.
*Assist in any audit investigations on the project
[1] Qualifications
*General computing and IT Projects experience
[2] Skills/Knowledge required
*Defect management experience
*Quality Center - to level of creating custom Excel reports using VBA for defect reporting
*Advanced Excel - to level of producing formula driven graphs and charts for management
*VBA experience
*Financials (Derivatives)
*MS Project
*Rational Clearcase
*API Experience
As an agency we are committed to offering a consultative, intelligent service. Est 1997. ISO9001:2000 certified REC technology member. We have an office at Fenchurch Court and are happy to meet with appropriate individuals in Central London. Please forward a copy of your CV to peter.hirst@deerfoot.co.uk in the first instance.

Defect Manager, Derivatives, Testing, Quality Center, Banking