Commercial Lending Consultant, BFS Consulting
Location : Chennai ONLY
Notice Period : Immediate Joiner to 60 days
Education : B.E/MBA
SKILLS / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- Must have at least 7-10 years of experience, of which at least 5 years in the finance industry as a Business Analyst or 8+ years of consulting experience in commercial lending services and related platforms.
- Strong experience in agile methodology is an absolute must.
- Solid experience in having developed user stories and acceptance criteria is essential.
- In-depth experience in coming with up test plans, test strategies, test cases and control sets for testing purposes.
- Ability to translate business requirements into technology specific actions
- Design and execute test cases for application development and implementation projects
- Knowledge of Bank loan products will be a significant plus
- Excellent Oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work closely and productively with cross cultural teams, spread across geographies and time zones.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Identify and document backlog of user stories, details within user stories, acceptance criteria and ensure they adequately cover the requirements.
- Interact with business users and explain the user stories, acceptance criteria and get their sign off
- Participate in functional discussions with COTS vendor(s) during sprints
- Document reporting requirements
- Ability to identify control set of data for testing purposes
- Write test cases to cover all user stories and ensure they are tested and signed off
- Coordinate with vendor(s) regarding user stories, acceptance criteria and test cases and get their sign off.
- Test (Sprint level testing, SIT) the solutions provided/developed
- Help business users document UAT test cases and during UAT.
- Document issues and coordinate with the vendor or internal teams in finding an appropriate solution.
- Test reports developed/configured against requirements, identify issues, if any, analyze the cause of such issues, raise relevant tickets with external vendor, participate in meetings with Vendor to resolve the issue, test the fix provided by Vendor.
- Interface with business clients and share test results, and get their approval to move the report/fix to production
- Document test results in the required format.
- Coordinate with internal control teams in getting required clearances for go-live.
- Work closely with the Project Manager, development team, solutions architect and business users
BA specific
- Strong working knowledge of agile framework
- CBAP certification will be a big plus.
- The following skills are absolutely essential:
- Analytical thinking and problem solving
- Well organized and ethical
- Commercial lending domain cycle, concepts and processes with full life-cycle implementation experience using any of the off-the-shelf products or custom development
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to communicate well with all levels, technical as well as non-technical stakeholders
- Facilitation, Negotiation, Leadership and Influencing skills
- Good working knowledge of Querying Language like SQL, advanced Excel skills
- Must have worked on different types of requirements and has a very strong knowledge of how requirements are elicited, documented and elaborated.
- Having worked on ADO will be a big plus.
- Ability to work directly with clients and management independently and to facilitate and navigate discussions with stakeholders to ensure clarity, prioritization, and consensus.
Interested candidates , please feel free to share your updated resume to AthiAravinthkumar.Selvappandi@cognizant.com