Akron Intel
Website:
akronintel.com
Job details:
Job Description: Fixed Income Testing Analyst
Relevant Experience: 3 - 7 years
Location: Hyderabad, India
Shift: UK Shift
NP – Immediate/ Not more than 30/ Buy outs
Role Overview:
We are seeking a Fixed Income Testing Analyst with strong knowledge of fixed income
products, investment analytics, and data validation. The role will support testing, analysis,
and validation of fixed income data, risk measures, performance calculations, and portfolio
analytics within investment management platforms. The ideal candidate will possess strong
analytical skills, experience with investigating data discrepancies, and an understanding of
fixed income instruments, performance attribution, performance and risk analytics.
Key Responsibilities
Design, execute, and maintain functional, integration, regression, and data-validation test
scenarios for fixed income investment management platforms.
Validate fixed income data, portfolio attributes, returns, benchmarks, attribution outputs,
risk metrics, and reporting results.
Test and validate bonds, structured products, swaps, and fixed income derivatives,
including pricing, cash flows, accrued interest, duration, convexity, yield, spread, and
sensitivity measures.
Analyze fixed income risk, attribution, and analytics outputs to ensure accuracy and
completeness.
Investigate data discrepancies, calculation issues, and testing exceptions through root
cause analysis and defect resolution.
Perform data quality reviews and collaborate with Performance Management, Fund
Operations, Technology, and Data teams to resolve issues.
Support user acceptance testing (UAT), release validation, production checks, and issue
triage activities.
Prepare test plans, test cases, defect reports, execution summaries, and supporting
documentation.
Communicate testing progress, risks, findings, and recommendations to business and
technology stakeholders.
Required Skills and Experience
3–5 years of relevant hands-on experience in fixed income analytics, performance
measurement, testing, and reporting.
Business analysis and platform-testing experience within investment management.
Experience validating calculation engines, market and reference data, security-level and
portfolio-level results, and upstream/downstream interfaces is highly desirable.
Proficiency in SQL, Excel, Agile delivery, requirements traceability, UAT, regression
testing, reconciliation and defect management is preferred.
Strong understanding of return calculations, performance attribution, benchmarks, risk
measures, and portfolio reporting.
Strong understanding of fixed income products including government bonds, corporate
bonds, agency securities, structured products, swaps, futures, options, and other fixed
income derivatives.
Experience testing investment-performance or fund-operations applications, data flows,
calculations, and reports.
Expertise in one or more leading performance measurement platforms.
Strong analytical, reconciliation, problem-solving, documentation, and stakeholder-
management skills.
Ability to interpret business requirements and translate them into comprehensive test
scenarios and expected results.
Preferred Experience
Fixed Income Attribution
Fixed Income Risk Analytics
Performance Measurement
Investment Analytics
Portfolio Analytics
Data Quality Validation
Reconciliation & Exception Analysis
Investment Management Platforms (Aladdin, FactSet, Eagle, SimCorp, etc.)
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with Aladdin is preferred but not required. Candidates with strong fixed
income analytics, attribution, risk, or performance measurement experience on other
investment platforms will also be considered.
Familiarity with SQL, data-query tools, test-management tools, and defect-tracking
platforms.
Knowledge of fund accounting, portfolio accounting, market data, and investment
operations.
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science,
or a related discipline; relevant investment or testing certifications are advantageous.
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