Harrington Starr are currently working with a leading Financial Institution to help recruit a Senior Test Analyst to work with them on their FX platform on a permanent basis.

The right candidate will have excellent test execution experience and the ability to communicate at all levels and advise on best practices to help make changes within the business. you must be able to stand your ground but articulate you point to senior steak holders within the business.

The role

• Preparation of the test plan including planning and estimation
• Coordinating test case reviews
• Execution of test cases
• Reporting progress during preparation and execution test phases
• Supporting and Utilising company standards for development and testing
• Effectively follow the software development life cycle, including defect management
• Proven experience in testing

Key experience needed

• Knowledge of the FX products, including Options and NDFs
• Understanding of Agile development methodology
• Ideally worked on Murex deliveries on Murex 3.x
• Ideally worked in Investment Banking Environment
• Understanding of architectural principles, interfaces, multi-threaded applications and STP processing

Harrington Starr are currently working with a leading Financial Institution to help recruit a Senior Test Analyst to work with them on their FX platform on a permanent basis.

The right candidate will have excellent test execution experience and the ability to communicate at all levels and advise on best practices to help make changes within the business. you must be able to stand your ground but articulate you point to senior steak holders within the business.

The role

• Preparation of the test plan including planning and estimation
• Coordinating test case reviews
• Execution of test cases
• Reporting progress during preparation and execution test phases
• Supporting and Utilising company standards for development and testing
• Effectively follow the software development life cycle, including defect management
• Proven experience in testing

Key experience needed

• Knowledge of the FX products, including Options and NDFs
• Understanding of Agile development methodology
• Ideally worked on Murex deliveries on Murex 3.x
• Ideally worked in Investment Banking Environment
• Understanding of architectural principles, interfaces, multi-threaded applications and STP processing

Harrington Starr are currently working with a leading Financial Institution to help recruit a Senior Test Analyst to work with them on their FX platform on a permanent basis.

The right candidate will have excellent test execution experience and the ability to communicate at all levels and advise on best practices to help make changes within the business. you must be able to stand your ground but articulate you point to senior steak holders within the business.

The role

• Preparation of the test plan including planning and estimation
• Coordinating test case reviews
• Execution of test cases
• Reporting progress during preparation and execution test phases
• Supporting and Utilising company standards for development and testing
• Effectively follow the software development life cycle, including defect management
• Proven experience in testing

Key experience needed

• Knowledge of the FX products, including Options and NDFs
• Understanding of Agile development methodology
• Ideally worked on Murex deliveries on Murex 3.x
• Ideally worked in Investment Banking Environment
• Understanding of architectural principles, interfaces, multi-threaded applications and STP processing

Harrington Starr are currently working with a leading Financial Institution to help recruit a Senior Test Analyst to work with them on their FX platform on a permanent basis.

The right candidate will have excellent test execution experience and the ability to communicate at all levels and advise on best practices to help make changes within the business. you must be able to stand your ground but articulate you point to senior steak holders within the business.

The role

• Preparation of the test plan including planning and estimation
• Coordinating test case reviews
• Execution of test cases
• Reporting progress during preparation and execution test phases
• Supporting and Utilising company standards for development and testing
• Effectively follow the software development life cycle, including defect management
• Proven experience in testing

Key experience needed

• Knowledge of the FX products, including Options and NDFs
• Understanding of Agile development methodology
• Ideally worked on Murex deliveries on Murex 3.x
• Ideally worked in Investment Banking Environment
• Understanding of architectural principles, interfaces, multi-threaded applications and STP processing

QA and Release Manager 

London 

Harrington Starr are currently working with a leading financial institute who are looking for a Murex Technical Consultant. You will be an active member of the first post-trade derivatives platform utility.

This platform will allow worldwide investment banks to leverage IT services, to decrease significantly their cost base, while increasing their ability to invest and increasing their operational efficiency.

You will act as Murex Subject Matter Expert in a Technical Support for several Murex instances (MxG2000 and MX.III) – that includes EOD chain support, weekend releases preparation and coordination, incident solving, configuration management for development/integration environments.

Responsibilities:

• Provide quality technical support on / around the entire Murex production chain.
• Analyze and manage incidents and propose solutions
• Identify underlying root causes for recurring problems. Promote and implement improvements on IT processes.
• Monitor technical services activity. Propose improvement for performance.
• Manage the Technical Releases
• Manage all Murex environments (excl. production environments) v2 and v3.
• Propose and develop enhancements to improve the technical support team work, where possible.
• Write and update documentation covering technical aspects of/around the Murex platforms.
• Write troubleshooting procedures, ‘’How to’s’’ and other technical advanced documentation.
• Share knowledge and coach newcomers, leverage your expertise through a continuous training program

Expected experience and knowledge:

• At least 7 years of relevant technical experience around Murex.
• Strong knowledge of MxG2000 v2.11 and v3.1 architecture, main services and around audit/debugging functionalities.
• Good knowledge of Real Time, Datamart, MxMl Exchange, Workflows and End of Day chain
• Understanding of Bonds, Repos and Credit Derivatives is a plus.
• Strong skills in either UNIX or Linux.
• Strong SQL skills (query building and performance analysis).
• Past experience with a scheduler is a must.
• Good scripting Skills (Unix shell, …).
• Programming Skills (Java, C, XML) is a plus.
• Client orientation is a must.
• Strong sense of cross group collaborative work and team spirit.
• Past experience with offshore is a plus.
• Fluent in English
• Fluent in French is a plus.

Sound interesting please contact James Platt on  0203 587 7007

QA and Release Manager 

London 

Harrington Starr are currently working with a leading financial institute who are looking for a Murex Technical Consultant. You will be an active member of the first post-trade derivatives platform utility.

This platform will allow worldwide investment banks to leverage IT services, to decrease significantly their cost base, while increasing their ability to invest and increasing their operational efficiency.

You will act as Murex Subject Matter Expert in a Technical Support for several Murex instances (MxG2000 and MX.III) – that includes EOD chain support, weekend releases preparation and coordination, incident solving, configuration management for development/integration environments.

Responsibilities:

• Provide quality technical support on / around the entire Murex production chain.
• Analyze and manage incidents and propose solutions
• Identify underlying root causes for recurring problems. Promote and implement improvements on IT processes.
• Monitor technical services activity. Propose improvement for performance.
• Manage the Technical Releases
• Manage all Murex environments (excl. production environments) v2 and v3.
• Propose and develop enhancements to improve the technical support team work, where possible.
• Write and update documentation covering technical aspects of/around the Murex platforms.
• Write troubleshooting procedures, ‘’How to’s’’ and other technical advanced documentation.
• Share knowledge and coach newcomers, leverage your expertise through a continuous training program

Expected experience and knowledge:

• At least 7 years of relevant technical experience around Murex.
• Strong knowledge of MxG2000 v2.11 and v3.1 architecture, main services and around audit/debugging functionalities.
• Good knowledge of Real Time, Datamart, MxMl Exchange, Workflows and End of Day chain
• Understanding of Bonds, Repos and Credit Derivatives is a plus.
• Strong skills in either UNIX or Linux.
• Strong SQL skills (query building and performance analysis).
• Past experience with a scheduler is a must.
• Good scripting Skills (Unix shell, …).
• Programming Skills (Java, C, XML) is a plus.
• Client orientation is a must.
• Strong sense of cross group collaborative work and team spirit.
• Past experience with offshore is a plus.
• Fluent in English
• Fluent in French is a plus.

Sound interesting please contact James Platt on  0203 587 7007