Rule Financial has a wealth of experience in this field, appreciating the mass of corporate, technical, strategic, resourcing and cultural influences at work when designing innovative solutions from conception to delivery. Our Business Analysts know what’s needed and when’ they influence the solution design at all business and technical levels, helping to define the technological framework within which business initiatives can be realised.

Rule Financial has developed and evolved a Business Analysis approach through extensive delivery within the banking sector across

· Equities
· Fixed Income
· Derivatives
· Commodities
· Securities Finance
The methodology consists of the following elements:
 
Test Management

Rule Financial’s Testing Management competency offers a structured, repeatable methodology, tailored to meet any given project objective. Our skill is to incorporate the testing strategy at the programme/project level, and the detailed approach and techniques at the later execution stage.

It provides management visibility throughout the whole testing lifecycle, and ensures the engagement of the project team, and business, by providing the tools and processes to deliver high quality software solutions.

Rule Financial provides test teams of experienced consultants with a strong track record of successful Test Management - incorporating Test Team set-up, strategies / methodologies, execution and delivery, including regression. All our testers have experience of working with testing tools such as WinRunner and Test Director.

The testing lifecycle defines the in-scope testing phases and phase ownership.

The testing strategy details the test phase objectives, scope, approach and deliverables (including key entry and exit reviews and sign-offs).

The testing process focuses on technical and business requirement analysis.
 
Systems Development and Integration

Businesses of all kinds compete in competitive and dynamic environments, moving into new markets whenever possible, trading new instruments as they’re developed, and conforming to the inevitable new regulations which follow. To support this constant state of flux, banks need a flexible and capable IT Project Delivery engine.

Rule Financial’s System Development and Integration service combines the Business Consulting expertise of our project managers and analysts, with the “brilliant technologists” in our Technical Consulting team. Together they build and/or integrate the bank’s new systems on time and budget to whatever specifications the business demands.

Following our flexible project approach - based upon Prince 2 and RUP - Rule Financial has delivered many projects across various banking domains and involving various technology platforms such as Java, C++, C#, VB, Oracle, Linux, XML.

Rule Financial’s exceptional technical staff is frequently engaged to ensure the client’s offshore development resources deliver systems which meet the client’s quality, performance and delivery timescale expectations. Rule has also developed a specialised methodology to enable the successful delivery of high quality, offshore software.

And remember, it isn’t easy getting a job at Rule Financial. All our technologists are rigorously tested prior to joining top make sure they’re within the top 10% of their profession.