Business Analyst / QA - fixed income, mortgage, equities and derivatives

RiskSpan is a leading source of analytics, modeling, data, and risk management solutions for the consumer and institutional finance industries. They are seeking a business-oriented Functional QA Analyst to ensure that their data-driven financial products and analytics platforms meet rigorous quality standards, focusing on translating business requirements into comprehensive test strategies and validating financial calculations and data outputs.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own the end-to-end QA test strategy, partnering with business stakeholders to translate requirements into clear, business-driven test plans and acceptance criteria
• Lead functional, business acceptance, and regression testing efforts, with a primary focus on validating financial calculations, data outputs, and business logic against expected outcomes
• Manage defect lifecycle, root cause analysis, and communication of business impact
• Document and maintain comprehensive test cases and test scripts
• Use of strong SQL skills to independently investigate data discrepancies and validate key figures; a dedicated data analyst will execute more complex queries and build automated DBT tests based on your recommended test strategy
• Validating Power BI reports against underlying data
• Serve as the primary point of contact for business stakeholders during testing cycles, communicating defect status, risks, and quality metrics in clear, non-technical terms
• Review data lineage and business workflows to ensure end-to-end traceability of financial data from source systems to reporting outputs
• Identify patterns in recurring bugs to drive long-term solutions
• Collaborate closely with product managers, developers and analysts to ensure requirements are met
• Recommend business/functional test cases that are required to attest to data quality based on business requirements; partner with the dedicated data analyst to ensure these are implemented and automated correctly

Requirements:

• 3–5 years of experience in quality assurance or business analysis, with demonstrated strength in functional testing of financial data products or analytics platforms
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies and SDLC best practices
• Strong SQL proficiency sufficient to run queries