Senior Business Analyst

KRIS INFOTECH PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A finance technology company based in Singapore is seeking a Senior Business Analyst with over 8 years of experience in Payment systems and Core Banking applications. Responsibilities include requirement gathering, preparing critical documentation, and overseeing testing phases. The role demands strong analytical skills, extensive knowledge in payment solutions, and the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders. This opportunity offers a challenging environment with a chance to impact the banking efficiency significantly.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience with Payment systems and Core Banking applications.
• Experience with Agile methodologies is a plus.
• Strong analytical and detail-oriented approach.

Responsibilities

• Conduct requirement gathering and validation with various stakeholders.
• Prepare documents like BRD, FSD and oversee testing phases.
• Liaison between business users, developers, and operations.

Skills

Payment systems knowledge

Core Banking applications

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Agile methodologies

Defect Management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Testing methodologies

Stakeholder interaction

Education

8+ years relevant business analyst experience

Tools

ALM/QC/JIRA

Kafka

Kibana

Cucumber

Job description

Job Description

As a Senior Business Analyst

• Understanding the BRD and conducting requirement gathering by various means like brainstorming, workshops, Questionnaire and working with different stakeholders of the cash management team like Product Managers (Global as well as In Country), Client Services, Implementation, Operations and Finance.
• Mapping the identified functional requirements and define a solution.
• Identifying the scope of the requirements, validating the requirements.
• Working with Lead Business Analyst & Technology partner i.e., Solution Architects to agree on the solution.
• Working as a liaison between Business users, operations and Developers.
• Preparing various documents like BRD, FSD and reviewing SIT Test scenarios and Test Cases. Experience in Agile world is a plus.
• Working with different stakeholders for product collateral and training needs.
• Working with Integration partners and other vendors within bank.
• Identify & resolve issues and manage project risks, supporting different teams, chairing & documenting meetings.

As a Functional Tester

• Handle the core banking system’s and payment system’s various test phases : regression tests, integration tests, functional tests, test automation.
• Good Knowledge and working experience of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Defect Life Cycle.
• Define functional test scenarios for core banking and payment systems.
• Overall responsible for ensuring User acceptance testing for all the streams.
• Maintain up to date test libraries (test scenarios, test cases).
• Working with SIT & UAT Testing Team, reviewing, testing scenarios, test cases and helping developers and testers in clearing their doubts about the requirements etc.
• Recording defects utilizing defect tracking tool with priority and severity and alert the management.
• Manage planning, communicate with stakeholders.
• Prepare regular reports on test results.
• Supporting the business users for User Acceptance Testing.
• Supporting Operations team / Business Users team to complete the testing.
• Managing testing at times when required and found the issues / testing not closing or moving as expected.
• Lead Defect Management related actives.

Requirements

Qualifications and Profile

• The position requires a minimum of 8 years relevant business analyst experience with Payment systems and Core Banking applications.

Functional

• Good knowledge in Payment area like interaction with Clearing, payment file format ISO20022, SEPA Products (SCT, SDD and Instant SCT) and SWIFT (Cross Border Payments). 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 & Bulk payments.
• Good knowledge of reporting products like Intraday/End of period accounting statements - (CAMT53, CAMT54, MT942 & MT940 formats), Debit and Credit advises – (CAMT52, MT900 & MT910- formats) and Payment status reports – (XML Pain.02 format).
• Proficient in User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional & System Integration testing of banking and financial applications.
• Experience in following areas is a plus: Retail Banking, Wholesale & Corporate Banking, Corporate commercial Payments, International & Domestic Payments, Payment Hub/Factory, Correspondent Banking, ACH, Real Time Payments, Cash & Liquidity Management, Compliance/AML, FX, Messaging (Swift and ISO) & Trade Finance.

Technical

• Hands on experience on testing methodologies.
• Working knowledge of ALM/QC/JIRA.
• Experience is creating Feature files for Cucumber.
• Understanding of Graph based Database like JanusGraph and Elastic search.
• Experience is Kafka platform for event storage and real time streaming of data.
• Knowledge on Kibana visualization tool for log and time-series analytics and application monitoring.

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.
• 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.
• 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.