Senior Test Specialist Accounting

Varrlyn is a consulting firm which was founded in 2010 and is based in The Netherlands. We help financial institutions with system implementations and provide some serious application support, concentrating on the way they process transactions and deploy reporting applications.

Varrlyn has a proven track record: we have worked for financial institutions in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Paris, New York, Frankfurt, and Sydney. We help improve cost efficiency, simplify application architecture, optimize time to market, enhance straight-through processing, and ensure compliance with financial regulations. In other words: You do the deal, we’ll do the project.

At Varrlyn, we are trained to think ahead. With advanced digital tools, we enjoy turning any obstacle into a chance to thrive. It’s all about thinking in terms of opportunities, together.

A positive mindset - that's what got us this far. Thinking of doing something deemed impossible? Once you realize nothing is impossible, you are free to dream. We’ll help you plan and thrive. Because at Varrlyn we believe that if something is achievable, we can - and will - achieve it together.

Varrlyn has expertise in:

• Dealing room & Sustainability services
  We’ll unburden you by taking care of your entire trade lifecycle. Get ready a for positive, sustainable change!
• Asset management
  Step up your game as a data-driven organization: digitise your processes without losing sight of the legal picture.
• Finance & Risk
  Get a grip on the rapid changes and the unpredictable influences that keep hitting the financial services sector.
• Digital services
  Our triple engine - dealing room, asset management, and finance & risk - is powered by our love for data and technology.

The role

You possess the capability to determine the test vision and strategy within the accounting team and translate it to actionable steps. You feel comfortable being the go-to person whom other testers can rely on for advice and guidance. Hands-on involvement with applications, drafting and executing test cases, collaboration with the development and business teams, and transforming (regression) tests into automated spec flow tests are aspects you definitely recognize as valuable contribution to a desired level of Quality Assurance.

What you would do

On behalf of our client, we are looking for a senior Test Specialist. In this role you have outstanding analytical skills and an eye for detail. Both on strategy/vision and hands on. You have a proactive attitude and you are able to adequately manage expectations. You have a willingness to develop or enhance your t-shaped skills.

Skills:

This is whaty you bring

• At least a higher professional degree in IT or software engineering / quality assurance;
• Proven experience as test lead or similar role, with a handson mindset;
• Strong knowledge of testing methodologies (ISTQB/ T-Map), tools (HP ALM) and best practices;
• Experience with test automation frameworks and tools (Spec flow or MF-ALM and UFT)
• Excellent leadership and communication skills with the ability of effective collaboration;
• Knowledge of Asset Management in particular Accounting (products and processes) is a plus;
• Proven ability to work closely with the business and translate test needs into specifications, test scripts and implement them;
• Highly developed communication skills in English (at least C1 level);
• Experience with Agile working is a plus.

Required

• Accounting
• Data structures
• Asset management
• Object-Oriented
• Design Patterns

Job location: Heerlen (partly remote)

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