Role Title : Defect Manager
Location : Hybrid - travel to office as and when required
Target Start Date : ASAP
Contract duration : 12 months
Deloitte
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Role:
We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Defect Management Lead to play a critical role in ensuring the successful delivery of a large and complex programme within the Investment Management/Asset Servicing domain.
Deliverables :
* Creating and refining a robust E2E defect management approach, leveraging lessons learnt from historical projects and clearly defining priority and severity for defects.
* Proactively identifying areas for improvement in existing defect management processes and implement changes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
* Collaborating across multiple development and test workstreams to efficiently assign fix teams, obtain fix ETAs and maintain a single source of truth in the chosen test.
* Facilitating defect triage meetings with stakeholders to assess impact, urgency, and assign ownership for resolution.
* Tracking defect resolution progress, identifying bottlenecks, and escalating issues as needed to ensure timely resolution.
* Ensure the Test Management tool is the source of truth for defects, capturing updates in a timely fashion and maintaining traceability of defects to test cases and other relevant artifacts.
* Produce daily and weekly defect reporting, demonstrating resolution progress and next actions and capturing key trend metrics/analysis, with clear exec summaries.
* Support with production SteerCo reports and other programme-level reports requiring defect metrics.
* Facilitate defect management training to support stakeholders in the defect management process and ensure defects are raised to the appropriate standard.
* Maintain a strong understanding of asset servicing operations, including, but not limited to, trade processing, settlements, corporate actions
Essential Skills & Experience:
* Proven Defect Management experience on large/complex programmes
* Investment Management/Asset Servicing experience (knowledge and understanding of Asset Classes, Investment processes, Portfolio Management etc), either through industry or programme delivery
* Test management tool expertise (JIRA/HP ALM)
* Strong leadership and management skills
* Excellent stakeholder management and communication
Additional Good to Have Experience:
* A proven track record in a top tier consultancy
* Exposure to Investment Management/Asset Management platforms such as, CRD, BlackRock Aladdin, SimCorp, Thinkfolio etc
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