Senior Business Analyst

Crédit Agricole CIB; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading corporate and investment bank is seeking a Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager to join their Core Banking IT department in Singapore. The role involves managing software quality assurance and testing functions while collaborating with technical teams on payment systems projects. Candidates should have at least 10 years of total experience with a strong background in payments and project management. The position offers a competitive remuneration package based on qualifications and experience.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years total experience with 5-7 years in project management for payment systems.
• Good knowledge of payment systems including ISO20022, SEPA, and SWIFT.
• Hands-on experience with various types of payment products.

Responsibilities

• Manage software quality assurance and collaborate with QA team.
• Lead testing activities including System Testing, UAT, and Regression Testing.
• Coordinate with different teams to align testing schedules and environments.

Skills

Knowledge in payment area and file formats

Extensive knowledge of payment products

Experience in User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Strong analytic skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

XRAY

JIRA

Job description

Overview

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Banking (Crédit Agricole CIB) is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, world’s 10th largest bank by total assets.

Our Singapore center ("ISAP" or "Information Systems Asia Pacific") is the 2nd largest IT setup (after Paris Head Office) for Crédit Agricole CIB's worldwide business. We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by: envisioning and preparing the Bank’s futures information systems; partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects; providing premium in-house banking applications.

This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market. We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenge.

Position

In a challenging and multicultural environment, we seek a Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager to join our Core Banking IT department in charge of the development and maintenance of the international Core Banking System of Crédit Agricole CIB. This information system is deployed in 25 business units all around the world. The system has multiple modules to manage reference data, commercial back office functions (payments, remittances, loans, deposits, guarantees, letters of credit), accounting, management control and credit risk monitoring. The system caters to local regulatory reporting needs and head office reporting, based on a data warehouse.

Main Responsibilities

• Be responsible for managing the software quality assurance functions across the internal project engineering team as well as manage QA team, while ensuring the delivery of high-quality products
• Collaborate with team of software quality assurance and automation engineers through an Agile software development lifecycle across various software teams, platforms and products
• Review test strategies, encourage the development of new test strategies, and maintain a continuous improvement environment to improve quality and efficiency
• Relevant experience in leading and coordination of testing activities such as System Testing, System Integration, End to End, Regression and User Acceptance Testing
• Maintain strong communication across departments and divisions to develop needs analysis, requirements, and operational planning
• Demonstrated experience in working with suppliers/vendors, technical team, business and operational teams in supporting and delivering program testing outcomes
• Work with multiple teams (external parties) to align test schedules, test environments, test data and govern across all the phases of testing
• Review test plans, test results, risk analysis and release documentation
• Identify and resolve constraints, dependencies and issues and manage project risks, supporting different teams, chairing and documenting meetings
• Preparing various documents like UAT, End to End Test scenarios and Test Cases
• Experience in Agile world is a plus
• Handle the cash management system’s and payment system’s various test phases: regression tests, integration tests, functional tests, E2E tests and test automation
• Good knowledge and working experience of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Defect Life Cycle
• Maintain up to date test libraries (test scenarios, test cases)
• Working with SIT and UAT Testing Team, reviewing, testing scenarios, test cases and helping developers and testers in clearing their doubts about the requirements
• Recording defects, utilizing defect tracking tool with priority and severity and alert the management
• Prepare regular reports on test results
• Lead Defect Management related activities
• Knowledge on testing tools XRAY/JIRA

Qualifications and Profile

The position requires a minimum of 10 years of total experience and 5 - 7 years of relevant project management experience with payment systems and cash management applications. Experience in payment systems and exposure to Payments Hub, Clearing and Settlement, Automated Clearing House programs and channels.

Functional

• Good knowledge in payment area like interaction with Clearing, payment file format ISO20022, SEPA and SWIFT. Hands-on experience with such data mapping and testing
• Hands on experience on payment systems and exposure to Payments Hub, Clearing and Settlement, Automated clearing house programs and channels
• Extensive knowledge on various kinds of payment products such as TT, RTGS, LVP, Payroll, Cheque, DD, Cashier Order, Mass and Bulk payments
• Proficient in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), End to End, Functional and System Integration testing of banking and financial applications
• Experience in following areas is a plus: Retail Banking, Wholesale and Corporate Banking, Corporate commercial Payments, International and Domestic Payments, Payment Hub/Factory, Correspondent Banking, ACH, Real Time Payments, Cash and Liquidity Management, Compliance/AML, FX, Messaging (Swift and ISO)
• Functional testing experience in GPP-SP (Global PayPlus – Service Platform) is mandatory

Other Professional Skills and Mindset

• Work on complex systems and a challenging international work environment
• Knowledge of all phases of IT system development and implementation life cycle and IT Testing life cycle
• Highly analytic and detail oriented in approach with excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience converting highly complex information into clear, concise documentation
• Strong analytic skills
• Capable to effectively interact with multiple stakeholders (including technical teams)
• Strives to deliver the solution in the most effective and timely manner
• Proactive with excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
• Team spirit - like to 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, other team leads, architecture functions and quality assurance teams. It could be a limited travel aspect for this role.

We offer a competitive remuneration package, consistent with your qualifications and experience.

For fair employment practices, we are keen on Singaporeans ONLY. We offer a competitive remuneration package, consistent with qualifications and experience.

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Visit us on: http://www.ca-cib.com