Lighthouse Technology Services is partnering with our client to fill their Lead QA Analyst position! This is a 12+ month contract opportunity and will be hybrid in Buffalo, NY. This role will be a W2 employee of Lighthouse Technology Services.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Act as the functional lead for high-impact banking projects spanning core loan servicing systems and financial applications.
• Gather, document, and validate business requirements related to banking operations, compliance, and risk mitigation.
• Design and execute detailed SIT and UAT test plans to ensure systems meet regulatory and operational standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across technology, compliance, risk, and operations to align solutions with bank-wide initiatives.
• Participate in system design sessions and ensure regulatory, audit, and data security needs are considered in all functional specifications.
• Analyze data and application behavior to support enterprise-level system conversions, regulatory implementations, and M&A activity.
• Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) on banking systems, ensuring requirements reflect regulatory changes and customer impact.
• Provide support during post-implementation review, issue triage, and resolution, ensuring banking systems perform to expectations.

What You’ll Need to Have:

• Experience coordinating SIT and UAT for banking or loan servicing systems
• Proven ability to write business requirements and test scripts/cases
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Minimum 6 years of combined business analysis or analytics experience, ideally in a financial institution
• Deep understanding of banking processes, regulatory considerations, and operational workflows
• Strong documentation skills using tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps, Excel, and Visio
• Experience working in Agile and Waterfall environments in a financial services organization

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with risk & compliance frameworks and regulatory change management
• Previous experience with system integrations, legacy banking systems, or core banking software
• Exposure to SQL, data mapping, and system migrations within banking contexts

Pay Range: $40-$46/hr

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