Handelsbanken
QA Test Analyst - London - 6 Month FTC/Contract
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Job Introduction
Handelsbanken combines a long-established relationship banking model with secure, resilient, and customer-focused technology. Our technology teams enable the Bank’s decentralised way of working, delivering systems built for stability, trust, and long-term value.
We are on a multi-year technology and digital transformation journey to enhance customer experience and improve how colleagues work together. By modernising platforms, simplifying processes, and better connecting data and systems, we help relationship teams focus on customers and less on complexity.
Our decentralised culture extends to technology. Teams are trusted to take ownership, make informed decisions, and deliver sustainable, high-quality solutions. We value engineering excellence, pragmatic problem-solving, and strong collaboration across technology, business, and risk.
We offer technologists the opportunity to build lasting careers, deepen their expertise, and contribute to meaningful change. We look for people who care about quality, security, long-term impact, and who want to shape the future of a relationship-led bank.
Check our Handelsbanken website for further information.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a QA Test Analyst, in support of our IT modernisation efforts who will be required to drive forwards the multi level/multi stage testing of key system developments. The role holder will be responsible for testing a catalogue of new features, working collaboratively with UK and Swedish development teams (3rd parties where appropriate), whilst focusing on the timely delivery of agreed outcomes that meet both business and staffing needs.
The successful candidate will have knowledge and extensive experience in testing complex business and staff applications, to enable high quality delivery of business-critical features for the bank. Experience of test planning, the ability to develop a test strategy and test approach, particularly tailored to individual releases, will also be essential. As the UK Bank becomes accustomed to more agile ways of working, it is also important that the successful candidate is very familiar with agile concepts and has proven experience of one or more agile methodologies and/or frameworks.
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This is an exciting time for Handelsbanken UK, and this role presents a significant opportunity that will enable the chosen candidate to play a key part in the UK Bank’s digital and modernisation journey. The role will sit in under the Quality Assurance department.
Key Responsibilities
Test Planning & Analysis
- Review business requirements and functional specifications.
- Identify test conditions, risks, and acceptance criteria.
- Estimate testing effort and contribute to test planning.
- Ensure requirements (functional & non-functional) are testable and complete.
Test Design & Preparation
- Create detailed test scenarios and test cases.
- Prepare test data.
- Maintain traceability between requirements and test cases.
- Prioritise tests based on business risk.
Test Execution
- Execute manual and/or automated test cases.
- Record test evidence and results.
- Perform functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance support testing.
- Re-test fixes and conduct regression testing.
Defect Management
- Log defects with clear reproduction steps and supporting evidence.
- Assess severity and priority.
- Work with developers and business analysts to resolve issues.
- Verify fixes and close defects once resolved.
Reporting & Quality Assurance
- Report testing progress, risks, and quality metrics.
- Produce test completion reports.
- Support go/no-go decisions for releases.
- Recommend process improvements and contribute to continuous improvement.
What We’re Looking For
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- Significant experience in a senior QA role and creating detailed test artefacts
- Demonstrates initiative and pragmatic-solving by challenging assumptions, asking the right questions and driving testing forward despite unclear, evolving or incomplete documentation.
- Experience working in data testing role – ETL/Data Migration, reconciliation (desirable)
- Test planning, strategy and approach with testing experience of; MS365 Applications (Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, CoPilot), DocuSign, SharePoint, API’s is desirable
- Experience working in Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban and contributing to the Agile ceremonies
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- The ability to act with courage and integrity including appropriate challenge when necessary
- Be able to actively participate in team meetings and other test forums
- The ability to build effective networks with stakeholders, both internally and externally
- Tooling – Hands on experience working on JIRA (Zephyr - desirable) and Confluence
- Cross–role/domain experience (e.g. banking, analysis, change management end user adoption) is desirable
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Why Join Handelsbanken
We want everyone at Handelsbanken to feel supported, motivated, and able to do great work. That’s why, alongside brilliant colleagues, meaningful work and training and development opportunities, we provide a variety of benefits designed with your wellbeing in mind.
In addition, there is a flexible benefits package with the key highlights detailed below.
Application Next Steps
Your journey with us begins once you have submitted your application. One of our Handelsbanken Talent Acquisition Partners will be reviewing your details and will later organise a phone conversation if your experience aligns with our requirements, we will extend an invitation for you to participate in an interview.
This advert will be live for a minimum of two weeks. However, please note that after the two weeks, the closing date could change at any time depending on the number of responses received.
The Bank is deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice into all of our activities. This is so that we are an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work that encourages everyone to apply, regardless of socio-economic background, age, disability, pregnancy and/or parental status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), veteran status, marital and civil partnership status, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.
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