Opportunities at Expleo Group

Overview

This is an intermediate role with 3-5 years solid Business analysis experience in a Information Security environment, and/or in a Data Analysis environment. Works independently taking full responsibility for a certain area within Business Analysis. Primary role in Business Analysis acting as a key interface between the technical project team and user
communities. This position serves as a liaison between the technical team and subject matter experts/end users

Responsibilities

• Works on multiple phases of a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments.
• Applies standards and methodologies, provides expertise and support on use of methods and tools.
• Responsible for needs analysis, project or task planning, process/data analysis and modelling and/or logical database design.
• Ensures that own projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed, and that lessons learned are recorded
• Identifies and assesses risks to the success of the project. Agrees the project approach with stakeholders, and prepares realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans) and tracking activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate.
• Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from
• investigations into business requirements and problems, and identifying potential benefits and available options for consideration.
• Produces specific business cases and scenarios and defines and documents system acceptance criteria.
• Defines routine, integrated processes and documents using basic formal process charting techniques.
• Works on formal requirements gathering and documentation. Assists in the collection of functional and technical requirements and in the development of design documents.
• Works on projects using available frameworks and tools and establishes plans for projects with on-time and on-budget project goals.
• Maintains the status of projects and provides guidance to the work of junior team members. Works across teams to achieve group goals.
• Test coverage analysis, risk prioritisation, analysis of defect trends, and identification of risks associated with issues identified in the project.
• Prepares project scope. Provides inputs to test strategy and approach.
• Preparation of training material for the team and vertical practice.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• Knowledge of Business Analysis

Desirable:

• Additional course or certification in Business Analysis

Skills

General:

• Professional attitude, has developed a reputation as a trusted advisor.
• Good client-facing skills, experience in developing partnerships with the team and client and collaborating with others to exceed client expectations.
• Good problem solving skills, has experience in proposing different options and solutions for approaching and resolving issues.
• Adaptable and responds positively to changing business issues, sees change as an opportunity to improve performance.
• Excellent communication skills, adapts style accordingly and demonstrates an understanding of the audience’s perspective. Uses discretion when dealing with sensitive information.

Technical:

• Intermediate theoretical knowledge in business analysis methodologies and has awareness of new and emerging technologies and developments.
• Has good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge and has practical experience of tools and frameworks required to deliver.
• Good understanding of the business analysis lifecycle including working knowledge of requirements elicitation, structured analysis, stakeholder management, use case definition and other Business Analysis techniques.
• Advanced knowledge in MS Excel and working knowledge of PowerPoint and Word.
• Knowledge of iterative development process and object-oriented, multi-platform projects.
• A proven record in analysing data and effectively presenting to clients to support proposed solutions. Able to challenge client hypotheses and solutions with robust data

Experience

Management:

• Good people skills, with experience in supporting others in raising their performance and working out their development goals.
• Experience in supporting team success and motivating others to keep morale and performance high.
• Good self management. Can set and work to quantified goals and standards. Delivers by being aware of and considering the commercial impacts.
• Must be flexible, independent and self motivated

What do I need before I apply

• 3-5 years solid Business analysis experience in a information security environment, and/or in a Data Analysis environment.
• 2-3 years Retail industry desirable
• Experience in and an understanding of Information security including Cyber Security with understanding of (Data loss prevention, privileged access management, endpoint security, encryption )

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Overview

Works autonomously and acts as a senior providing professional advice, managing and/or coordinating an area within Business Analysis. Leads technical areas within Business Analysis projects using available frameworks and tools and establishing project plans with on-time and on-budget project goals.

Responsibilities

• Leads multiple phases of technical areas within a project and/or multiple small projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments, responsible for a certain area and conditions.
• Applies standards and methodologies. Provides expertise and support on use of methods and tools.
• Able to synthesise large amounts of information and identify logical business applications.
• Develops service models and prototypes and creates and implements customer feedback mechanisms.
• Responsible for needs analysis, task planning, process/data analysis and modelling and/or logical database design with relational databases.
• Identifies and assesses risks to the success of the project. Agrees the project approach with stakeholders, and prepares realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans) and tracking activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate.
• Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from investigations into business requirements and problems, identifying potential benefits and available options for consideration.
• Sets up project files, compiles and distributes reports. Provides guidance on procedures, processes, tools and techniques.
• Maps full business processes and implements solutions for technological and process improvements within the context of overall business processes.
• Identifies relationships and linkages with data. Anticipates issues and identifies root causes and effects.
• Elicits and discovers requirements from key business stakeholders and selects appropriate techniques for the elicitation of detailed requirements.
• Develops a network to support and add value to client engagements including company, clients and external professional networks.
• Provides inputs on effort estimation.
• Handles training and builds competency within the vertical practice.
• Supports developing domain reusable assets – repositories, utilities, etc.

Qualifications

Essential

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• Additional course or certification in Business Analysis

Desirable:

• Project Management qualification
• Management qualification or relevant years of experience

Skills

General:

• Has achieved trusted advisor status at a senior level with the client.
• Excellent client-facing skills, takes time to establish underlying needs of client beyond those initially expressed.
• Has an innovative approach, develops new approaches to improve or replace existing procedures or systems.
• Excellent communication skills, maintains confidentiality, shares ideas and information, facilitates discussions and transfers knowledge to diverse audiences to achieve collective objectives.

Technical:

• Intermediate theoretical knowledge in business analysis methodologies and has awareness of new and emerging technologies and developments.
• Has good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge. Has practical experience of and is proficient with business analysis tools and frameworks required to deliver.
• Strong understanding of the business analysis lifecycle, including requirements elicitation, structured analysis, stakeholder management and user case definition.
• Proven ability in assuring project meets quality standards by providing guidance and developing procedures relating to product quality.
• Experience in applying problem-solving methodologies and tools to diagnose and solve operational and interpersonal problems.
• Experience in providing technical guidance to enable others and solving technical queries from junior colleagues.
• Highly proficient in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Experience with iterative development process and object-oriented, multi-platform projects.
• Experience in all phases of software development and/or package selection.
• Knowledge of systems flows, engineering documentation, tools and architecture concepts required.
• Experience of using recommended project control solutions for planning, scheduling and tracking.
• Is skilled at co-ordinating the information gathering and reporting process, reviewing trends and comparing to expectations.

Management:

• Good people skills. Experience of introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions.
• Renowned as an effective coach and sounding board.
• Good self management. Takes on high commitments and works to achieve results. Keeps momentum going over time despite setbacks, showing resilience in the face of challenges and looking for ways to beat previous standards.
• Experience in managing upwards with multiple people, gaining their trust quickly.

Budget:

• Ability to manage own expenses and ensure adherence of others to the expense policy.
• No specific budget assigned.

Experience

Domain Experience

Experience in many of the following VAS services:

• Wallet
• Money Transfers
• Saving and Gift cards
• Insurance
• Airtime and Data
• Bills and Tickets

Management:

• Good people skills, with experience in supporting others in raising their performance and working out their development goals.
• Experience in supporting team success and motivating others to keep morale and performance high.
• Good self management. Can set and work to quantified goals and standards. Delivers by being aware of and considering the commercial impacts.
• Must be flexible, independent and self motivated.

Budget:

• Ability to manage own expenses and adhere to the expense policy.
• No specific budget assigned.

What do I need before I apply

• 5 years of experience in Business Analysis in a Financial Services/Banking domain within a retail environment
• 5 years of experience in ERP systems
• 2-3 years of experience in the Retail industry

A strong technical background is required:

• Technical skills – knowledge of software and IT skills
• Data analysis – able to use logical techniques to analyze, describe, and evaluate data
• System analysis –able to find solutions to a given business function.
• System integration specification – able to bring different technological entities together to solve a given problem
• Functional specifications – able to explain in detail how a given technological solution would meet a given business requirement.

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Overview

3-5 Years experince as a Test Lead / Test Manager. Works autonomously and acts as a senior providing professional advice, managing and/or coordinating the work of others. Maintains the status of projects and monitors the activities of team members, leading Quality Assurance projects using available test frameworks and tools and establishing project plans with on-time and on-budget project goals.

Responsibilities

• Leads multiple phases of a project and/or multiple projects of moderate scope and sometimes complex assignments.
• Responsible for managing own and team's time within a certain test area and conditions with respect to analysis and design, implementation and system integration, execution as well as results evaluation, problem resolution and planning.
• Assures the project team meets quality standards by allocating work and providing guidance in planning, designing, executing testing, and developing procedures relating to product quality.
• Participates in formal reviews of business requirements and application designs and ensures proper test coverage based on requirements and design specifications.
• Talks to relevant business stakeholders on strategies and methods to improve test plans and processes. Has an understanding of the overall test strategy.
• Leads the test execution and creation of scripts as per test plans, co-ordinating schedules, work and resource plans; leading the progress of all activities against the overall plan.
• Determines the potential causes of problems and analyses multiple alternatives, risks, and benefits for a range of potential solutions. Translates these to best practices.
• Analyses and reports on overall test status and results, identifying issues and reporting to relevant stakeholders, manages risks to the success of the project.
• Identifies and manages the critical path of testing and ensures execution of project regression tasks. Defines regression tests for future projects and defines and co-ordinates production verification and validation.
• Develops a network to support and add value to client engagements including company, clients and external professional networks.
• Supports test management in developing project plans and tracking against key milestone dates

Qualifications

Essential

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Advanced

Desirable

• Additional course or certification in Quality Assuranc

Skills

• Excellent client-facing skills, takes time to establish underlying needs of client beyond those initially expressed.
• Has an innovative approach, develops new approaches to improve or replace existing procedures or systems.
• Excellent communication skills, maintains confidentiality, shares ideas and information, facilitates discussions and transfers knowledge to diverse audiences to achieve collective objectives.
• Intermediate theoretical knowledge in quality assurance methodologies and has awareness of new and emerging technologies and developments.
• Has good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge and has practical experience of and is proficient with testing tools and frameworks required to deliver.
• Strong understanding of the software development process including analysis, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution and planning.
• Proven ability in assuring project meets quality standards by providing technical guidance in planning, designing, executing testing, and developing procedures relating to product quality.
• Good people-leading skills, experience of introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other. Encourages mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions.
• Renowned as an effective coach and sounding board.
• Good self management, takes on high commitments and works to achieve results. Keeps momentum going over time despite setbacks, shows resilience in the face of challenges and looking for ways to beat previous standards.

Experience

General:

• 3-5 yrs Proven experience in Test Management within cross-functional delivery areas and multiple projects
• 3-5 yrs Test Lead / Management and Team Management within multinational and cross-functional delivery areas
• Has achieved trusted advisor status at a senior level with the client.

Technical:

• Experience in applying problem-solving methodologies and tools to diagnose and solve operational and interpersonal problems.
• Experience in being responsible for directing and monitoring the work of team members and providing guidance and training to enable others.

Management:

• Experience in leading and managing others, offering the appropriate balance of supervision and empowerment.
• Experience in managing upwards with multiple people, gaining their trust quickly.

What do I need before I apply

• 3-5 yrs Proven experience in Test Management within cross-functional delivery areas and multiple projects
• 3-5 yrs Test Lead / Management and Team Management within multinational and cross-functional delivery areas
• 1-3 yrs JIRA
• 3-5 yrs Microfocus ALM QC 
• 3-5 yrs Integration/Continuous Delivery Experience
• 3-5 yrs Testing in a Retail / Financial sector
• 3-5 yrs Test Environment Management
• 3-5 yrs Expertise in systems testing, systems integration testing, end-to-end testing, user acceptance testing, manual testing 
• 3-5 yrs Google Suite / MS Office Suite
• 3-5 yrs Expertise in structured test methods and processes
• 3-5 yrs Proven experience in testing complex user interfaces.

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Overview

Works independently taking full responsibility for a certain test area. Primary role in Quality Assurance in the areas of analysis and design, implementation and execution, in line with agreed plans and strategies.

Responsibilities

• Works on multiple phases of a project and/or multiple projects.
• Takes responsibility for a certain test area and conditions as well as results evaluation, problem resolution and planning.
• Selects appropriate standards, methods, tools and applications for project use.
• Reviews quality assurance plans, data, procedures, and scripts.
• Creates test cases independently and helps prepare for evaluations. Runs tests and retests as necessary, executing test scripts in area of accountability.
• Investigates defined issues with uncertain cause and solicits input in gathering data that help identify and differentiate the symptoms and root causes of defined problems
• Identifies test issues, reports risks and defines regression tests for current and future projects.
• Creates traceability records, from test cases back to requirements, reporting on system quality and collecting metrics on test cases.
• Works on quality assurance projects using available test frameworks and tools focusing on ontime and on-budget project goals.
• Maintains the status of projects and provides guidance to the work of junior team members, works across teams to achieve group goals.

Qualifications

Essential

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
• ISTQB Foundation

Desirable

• Additional course or certification in Quality Assurance

Skills

• Good client-facing skills, experience in developing partnerships with the team and client and collaborating with others to exceed client expectations.
• Good problem solving skills, has experience in proposing different options and solutions for approaching and resolving issues.
• Excellent communication skills, adapts style accordingly and demonstrates an understanding of the audience’s perspective. Uses discretion when dealing with sensitive information.
• Good people skills, with experience in supporting others in raising their performance and working out their development goals.
• Good self management. Can set and work to quantified goals and standards. Delivers by being aware of and considering the commercial impacts.
• Must be flexible, independent and self motivated

Experience

General:

• Professional attitude, has developed a reputation as a trusted advisor.
• Adaptable and responds positively to changing business issues, sees change as an opportunity to improve performance.

Technical:

• Intermediate theoretical knowledge in quality assurance methodologies and has awareness of new and emerging technologies and developments.
• Has good applications/technology knowledge, building on specialist domain knowledge and has practical experience of testing tools and frameworks required to deliver.
• Good understanding of the software development process including analysis, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution and planning.

Management:

• Experience in supporting team success and motivating others to keep morale and performance high

What do I need before I apply

• 3-5 Years' experience in Software Testing in a retail / financial environment.
• Experience in Web-platform Technologies & Mobile Application Testing
• Experience in working with complex data sets and multiple integration points
• Experience with API Testing, Postman, SQL and other technical testing techniques
• Testing experience in an Agile environment.
• Strong knowledge of functional testing, system testing, integration testing, regression testing.
• Thorough knowledge of structured test methods and processes.
• Proven experience in testing complex user interfaces.
• Excellent understanding of testing concepts and the role of QA within Agile development methodology / Scrum management techniques