Job Description:
- Executing Business Analysis best practices and Engagement of Stakeholders across Front-to-Back functions.
- Responsible for all analysis of functional requirements arising from the requirements of business stakeholders, business users and technology.
- Mapping the identified functional requirements and define a solution.
- Designing and executing the test cases for the IT business requirements.
- Defect reporting and triage.
- Multi-tasking: Work in Agile - Scrum environment as a BA & PM/Scrum Master.
- Should be able to refine/groom future stories & perform BA tests within the sprint time-box.
- Managing the requirements and provide design options for the solutions available and guide the team.
- Evaluation of alternative IT solutions and provide appropriate recommendations.
- Provide Payments domain expertise to help define a viable business solution, working with the key business sponsors.
- Ensuring that the services delivered conforms with, and contributes to the development of the business strategy.
- Assess the impacts on the project plans resulting from change requests, adhoc projects, or technology issues.
- Coordinating with various users groups and interface teams and getting them on board as interface services for various financial services.
- Managing stakeholders, risks, issues, quality, and project controls.
- Work closely with the technical implementation team in bridging the gap from translating functional to technical details
- Involve in QA activities when needed.
- Provide functional Guidance to the Team, working closely with developers/Tech Leads for assisting in resolution of queries.
Requirements:
Qualifications and Profile:
- The position requires a minimum of 7 years of relevant business analyst experience with banking IT systems (Payment systems and Core Banking applications).
Key Functional Skills :
- End-to-End payments system knowledge with detailed insights on payment file format ISO20022, SWIFT and SEPA payments. Experience with payments field/value mapping and validations.
- Must Have:
- Hands on experience on payment systems and exposure to Payments Hub, Clearing and Settlement, Automated clearing house programs and channels.
- Good knowledge on payment life-cycle (Client Clearing) for High Value, Payments. Also, experience on handling R-Msgs.
- Proficient in Functional & System Integration testing of banking and financial applications, User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Strong understanding of SDLC and Software Testing Lifecycle.
- Break FSD & EPICs into developable stories for developers by creating linkage & traceability of requirements.
- Should have high experience in creating Cucumber test cases (gherkin) & working with developers in Behavior Driven Development (BDD).
Good to have:
- Functional automation of Test cases using SOAP UI / Selenium and other automation tools.
- Should be able to connect dots from bigger picture to smaller chunks and maintain Change requirements.
- Experience in following areas is a plus: Corporate Banking, Corporate commercial Payments, International & Domestic Payments, Payment Hub/Factory, Correspondent Banking, Real Time Payments, Cash & Liquidity Management, Compliance/AML, FX, & Messaging (Swift and ISO).
Other Professional Skills and Mindset:
- Should be experienced working as Scrum Master /PM on payments related projects with exposure to sprint/project planning & monitoring, stakeholder management.
- Hands-on experience in driving the sprint along with various sprint ceremonies.
- Should be experienced on Agile tools (Atlassian), BA tools (MS Word, Excel, MS Visio), QA tools and standard documents.
- Ownership & requirements management: Create, Maintain & periodically update specifications documents.
- Knowledge of all phases of IT system development and implementation life cycle.
- Highly analytical and detail oriented in approach with Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience converting highly complex information into clear, concise documentation.
- Capable to effectively interact with development & delivery teams, should have worked in cross-functional departments.
- Strives to deliver the solution in the most effective and timely manner.
- Team spirit - Like explain and share knowledge.
- Hands on and versatile.
- As part of an integrated organization across 3 main sites (Paris, SQY, Singapore), be able to forge close relationships with program director, others team leads, architecture functions and quality assurance teams. It could be a limited travel aspect for this role.
