Sr QA Analyst

This is a Non-Employee Contingent Worker Role providing services for TIAA's family of companies and will be employed by TIAA's preferred 3rd Party Supplier. As a Non-Employee CW, perform a variety of moderately complex business planning, support, and project-related duties. Demonstrates an exceptional standard of quality and holds themselves accountable to achieving excellent results.

This role will sit onsite, likely in a hybrid capacity, at the location(s) listed in this posting.

The anticipated term of this engagement will be 5 months. This term could be extended based on company business needs.

CW-Lead Business Systems Analyst
The Lead Business Systems Analyst approves that designed system solutions are appropriate for business needs and consistent with the overall design of the organization's information systems architecture. Working closely with senior leadership, this job manages large projects, processes and establishes operational plans.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Provides senior level consulting services to business groups on process improvement projects designed to improve IT and business management results.
• Develops and implements new processes, standards or operational plans that will have impact on the achievement of functional results.
• Participates in defining and formulating senior leadership's IT strategy through the review of business objectives and value proposition.
• Advises senior leadership on future business direction and aligns IT with business priorities, strategies, and operating models.
• Recommends solutions or improvements to business processes that can be accomplished through new technology or alternative uses of existing technology.
• Recommends long-term improvements and changes to organization's IT systems to support future business direction and growth.
• Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level professionals.

Educational Requirements

• University (Degree) Preferred

Work Experience

• 5 Years Required; 7 Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level
9IC

SUMMARY: The Sr Testing Analyst will sit within Nuveen's Data Strategy Technology team - a group of cross skilled technology professionals that partners with Nuveen's Data Management Business Unit. This position will focus on validating the various applications within the data strategy program.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The following duties are generally representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive.

• Participate in functional testing, integration testing and regression testing (manual and automated)
• Test planning, developing test cases/test scripts, test execution, error reporting, analysis and error verification
• Diagnose, analyze and solve application and data issues.
• Providing test reports and documenting problems found, steps to reproduce in the issue tracking tool and team site

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university
• 7+ years of relevant work experience
• Experience with automated testing tools and methods
• Ability to work cross-functionally to deliver results
• 4+ years or experience in Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL
• Experience in Capital Markets and Asset/Wealth Management Industry.
• Self-directed, self-starter, and motivated with the ability to work with minimal supervision
• Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize tasks
• Solid technology background, including an understanding of technology-governance frameworks, and applications used in financial services

Preferred Skills:

• Responsive and proactive in answering questions
• Exposure to Business Intelligence tools such as OBIEE, Tableau or Power BI.
• Working knowledge of JIRA and Confluence preferred

Start Date: 14-Nov-2022

End Date: 30-Apr-2023

Travel Required: No

Base Pay Range: $73.57/hr. - $79.29/hr.

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location.

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