Payments Planning and Testing Business Analyst, Senior Associate

State Street • Quincy, MA

1d • $58,240 - $84,760 • Onsite

About The Position

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.

Why this role is important to us?
The three workstreams 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. Join us if contributing to Payments Business Risk and Resiliency Programs is a challenge you are up for.

Requirements

• 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 workstreams.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Testing, Agile, project management or business analysis certification is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive and vary by location.
• You will have access to flexible work arrangements, development programmes and educational support designed to help you reach your full potential.
• You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift programs and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.
• retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
• insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
• paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
• access to our Employee Assistance Program
• incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards
• eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree