Business Analyst / QA Test Coordinator – Regulatory Reporting & Data Testing

The role focuses on the planning, coordination and execution of end-to-end testing activities, with a strong emphasis on SIT, UAT, data validation and regulatory reporting workflows.

• Plan and coordinate the overall testing approach for SIT and UAT
• Prepare, document, maintain and execute test cases, including regression tests
• Coordinate and track defects, ensuring clear documentation, prioritisation and resolution follow-up
• Support business users during UAT and facilitate structured business sign-off
• Report test progress, results, risks and issues transparently to the project team
• Contribute to go-live readiness by ensuring that testing completion criteria and quality gates are met
• Validate data pipelines and reporting workflows, including source-to-target mapping, data reconciliation and discrepancy analysis
• Work closely with business stakeholders, IT teams and external vendors

For our client, a leading financial institution in Zurich, we are looking for an experienced Business Analyst / QA Test Coordinator to support a regulatory and data implementation project.

This is a 100% contract role starting as soon as possible and running until 18 December 2026, based in Zurich.

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst, Test Specialist, QA Analyst or Test Coordinator in IT transformation or regulatory projects
• Strong experience in SIT and UAT, including test case preparation, test execution and regression testing
• Experience in regulatory reporting projects within financial services, ideally with exposure to AnaCredit or similar regulatory reporting topics
• Good understanding of data requirements, reporting workflows and financial/regulatory datasets
• Experience with data validation, source-to-target mapping, reconciliation and identification of data discrepancies
• Familiarity with defect tracking tools such as JIRA or similar
• Knowledge of structured testing methodologies and test documentation standards
• SQL knowledge is highly beneficial
• ISTQB Foundation or a similar testing certification is an advantage but not mandatory