Qualifications and Profile
This position requires a minimum of 5+ years of relevant experience as an IT Business Analyst supporting the development of enterprise-wide complex information systems within major organizations, ideally in a banking environment. Must have Vast work experience with large data volumes and data warehouse technology.
Main responsibilities
Main responsibilities of the role:
· Liaise with project stakeholders (onshore IT teams and business users) in defining detailed functional specifications and clarifications.
· Proactively communicate and collaborate with stakeholders to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artefacts as needed: detailed functional specifications, use cases, test strategy and test cases.
· Analyze and transform business requirements into solutions with the help of Development teams.
· Prepare, maintain and communicate functional documentation.
· Plan, prepare and execute the qualification strategy and tests of the target solutions.
· Perform System Integration Testing (SIT) before allowing transition to the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase.
· Identify test data required to complete the test activities.
· Steering of the User Acceptance Tests (UAT) and reporting status to project stakeholders.
· Report and escalate key risks and issues related to project execution to the project manager.
· Deliver thoroughly tested products on time, up to production deployment.
· Support the project planning, schedules and milestones in coordination with project teams.
· L3 support, troubleshooting of production incidents.
· Work with large data volumes, analysis and troubleshoot of data anomalies/inconsistencies.
Mandatory
· Hands-on experience of coordination between the business and IT teams (various locations) and as primary functional support for development teams.
· Strong ability to interpret business needs and translate them into requirements.
· Knowledge in software development life cycle and software testing life cycle.
· Experience in writing test documents and performing functional tests.
· Risk awareness, ability to evaluate and predict risks and drawback of target solution.
· Identify and determine enhancements to improve business processes and to mitigate/reduce risks.
· Exceptional understanding of data modeling (ERD, dimensional).
· Proficiency in SQL database queries (complex queries).
· Ability to prepare dataset for analysis and validation purposes.
· Strong experience in working with Microsoft Office tools, JIRA.
Nice to Have
· Knowledge of performance testing and associated tools
· UI/UX experience is a great plus.
· Banking sector domain knowledge: payments, accounting, SWIFT, global markets, accounting, etc.
· Ability to speak or understand French
Other Professional Skills and Mind-set
· Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
· Proactive style of working.
· Strong communication (written, and verbal) and organizational skills.
· Ability to multi-task and work independently with minimal supervision.
· Team player mindset.
· Ability to work under pressure.
· Understanding and respect of cultural diversity.
We are looking for BA who is data centric... meaning the candidate must have good stills in database & data warehouse.
