Functional and Database Test Analyst Location: London The Opportunity Are you an experienced QA professional with strong functional testing and SQL skills? We''re looking for a Functional and Database Test Analyst to help ensure applications perform as expected and business-critical data is accurate, consistent and reliable. Working closely with business analysts, developers, product owners and end users, you''ll play a key role in validating application functionality, testing end-to-end business workflows and investigating data issues across integrated systems. This is an opportunity to apply your technical testing expertise within a financial services environment, helping deliver high-quality applications that meet complex business and data requirements. Key Responsibilities Analyse business requirements, functional specifications, user stories and data mappings to establish clear testing objectives and acceptance criteria. Design and maintain test plans, scenarios, test cases and test data covering positive and negative scenarios, boundary conditions and exception handling. Execute smoke, sanity, system, integration, regression and end-to-end testing across applications and connected systems. Write and execute SQL queries using joins, subqueries, grouping and aggregate functions to validate data, calculations and business rules. Perform source-to-target data reconciliation, identifying missing, duplicate, inaccurate or inconsistent records and verifying data ..... full job details .....