Sr Business & Functional Analyst, AVP

Deutsche Bank; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave policy

Parental leave

Childcare reimbursement

Certifications sponsorship

Employee assistance program

Health insurance for you and family

Life insurance

Health screening

Job summary

Deutsche Bank in Pune, India, seeks a Sr. Business & Functional Analyst (AVP) to drive requirement analysis, user story definition, UAT management, and functional testing for the Avaloq core banking platform across EMEA and APAC.

You will operate at squad level, oversee deliverables quality, analyze complex business flows, and test end-to-end scenarios to ensure business outcomes are fit for purpose. Strong domain knowledge in wealth/core banking is essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in functional testing and requirements analysis.
• Experience from requirements through system-level specs, user stories, backlog grooming, and UAT ownership.
• Wealth management and core banking domain knowledge.
• Experience across multiple domains: payments, portfolio management, equity, fixed income, funds, FX, etc.
• Familiarity with Agile tools and cross-location teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements, plan solutions, and provide estimates.
• Collect and document business and technical requirements with interfacing apps.
• Review core banking requirements and assess upstream/downstream impacts.
• Define testing requirements, create test cases, and review interfaces; execute UAT.
• Coordinate with QA, business, and vendors across regions.
• Provide post go-live support and monitor risks/issues.

Skills

Fluent in English

Years of experience in testing

UAT ownership

User story definition

Backlog grooming

Wealth management domain

Core banking knowledge

Testing types (regression, integration

JIRA and Confluence

Excellent communication

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Position Overview

Job Title- Sr. Business & Functional Analyst, AVP

Location- Pune, India

Role Description

• Candidate will perform a Senior BFA role to support Avaloq core banking application regarding Requirement analysis, User story definition, UAT Test management and functional testing activities of Deutsche Bank EMEA and APAC regions within the PB – Private Banking department.
• Candidates need to operate at Squad level and provide an oversight of quality of Squad deliverables. They will analyze and test new features with an end-to-end business view to determine that the business outcome is fit for purpose.
• The Senior BFA should analyze complex business flows and functions and help to implement Test automation scripts wherever possible to achieve regression testing. You are motivated to work in a challenging environment, committed to results, while preserving a highly collaborative and supportive work environment.

What We’ll Offer You

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy

• Best in class leave policy
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your Key Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements specification, plan & design solutions, support project estimates and provide planning input regarding solution engineering and development.
• Collect business and techno-functional requirements in collaboration with the business area as well as with interfacing applications and document these
• Review and validate business requirements on Core banking platform as well as any impact to upstream or downstream systems within short timelines
• Supports the design and conceptualization of new business solution options and articulates identified impacts and risks.
• Identify potential impacts of new change on existing process through analysis and highlight any associated risks/issues.
• Liaising with multiple vendors involving multiple interfacing systems of the Core Banking System
• Defines testing requirements including test plans, test cases, test-data and review of interface testing between different applications. Execute test cases and resolve functional issues arising from user acceptance testing.
• Support and co-ordinate UAT, defining (and executing) testing requirements together with the QA & Testing Team as well as the business area
• Ensure adherence to application and technology related architectural standards and development policies
• Perform data analysis to support tasks as required
• Providing hands‑on, functional post go‑live support to users
• Identify risks/issues and escalation to Program Management accordingly.

Your Skills And Experience

• Fluent in English (written/verbal)
• 10+ minimum years of experience in Functional testing and Requirement analysis of Core banking Business flows.
• Experience working with business requirements through to system level functional specifications, requirement gathering, user story definition, backlog grooming, and UAT ownership (Must have)
• Domain Expertise in core business processes and products in the Wealth Management portfolio.
• Good knowledge in at least 4 to 5 business domains – Payments, Portfolio Management, Equity, Fixed Income, Funds, FX, MM, Alternative Investments, Derivatives, Structured Products …etc.
• Good to have experience in Wealth Core banking systems.
• Knowledge of various test levels and test types: white/black box, system, performance, integration, regression testing.
• High analytical capabilities.
• Familiar with Agile Team management tools (JIRA, Confluence).
• Excellent communications skills: ability to translate complex business processes and technical designs and concerns into easy‑to‑understand language.
• Experience with distributed/multi‑locations teams.
• Comfortable working in multi-disciplinary, self‑organized teams with functional stakeholders of various levels.
• Able to control multiple assignments and to manage priorities.

Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

How We’ll Support You

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About Us And Our Teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.html

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.

Together we share and celebrate the successes of our people. Together we are Deutsche Bank Group.

We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.