Policy Automation Testing Lead - C13 Pune jobs at Citi Group in India, Chennai

Responsibilities:

• Utilize knowledge of applications development procedures and concepts, and basic knowledge of other technical areas to identify and define necessary system enhancements, including using script tools and analyzing/interpreting code
• Consult with users, clients, and other technology groups on issues, and recommend programming solutions, install, and support customer exposure systems
• Apply fundamental knowledge of programming languages for design specifications.
• Analyze applications to identify vulnerabilities and security issues, as well as conduct testing and debugging
• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
• Identify problems, analyze information, and make evaluative judgements to recommend and implement solutions
• Resolve issues by identifying and selecting solutions through the applications of acquired technical experience and guided by precedents
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• 4-8 years relevant experience in Data Analytics OR Big Data
• Hands on experience over SQL , Python, Pyspark, with Spark components
• 2-4 years of experience as Big Data Engineer to develop, optimize, and manage large-scale data processing systems and analytics platforms.
• 4 years of experience in distributed data processing & near real-time data analytics using PySpark.
• ETL Experience preferred over Abinitio.
• Strong understanding of PySpark execution plans, partitioning & optimization techniques.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Other Relevant Skills

Responsibilities:

• Conducts strategic data analysis, identifies insights and implications and make strategic recommendations, develops data displays that clearly communicate complex analysis.
• Mines and analyzes data from various banking platforms to drive optimization and improve data quality.
• Deliver analytics initiatives to address business problems with the ability to determine data required, assess time & effort required and establish a project plan.
• Consults with business clients to identify system functional specifications. Applies comprehensive understanding of how multiple areas collectively integrate to contribute towards achieving business goals.
• Consults with users and clients to solve complex system issues/problems through in-depth evaluation of business processes, systems and industry standards; recommends solutions.
• Leads system change process from requirements through implementation; provides user and operational support of application to business users.
• Formulates and defines systems scope and goals for complex projects through research and fact-finding combined with an understanding of applicable business systems and industry standards.
• Impacts the business directly by ensuring the quality of work provided by self and others; impacts own team and closely related work teams.
• Considers the business implications of the application of technology to the current business environment; identifies and communicates risks and impacts.
• Drives communication between business leaders and IT; exhibits sound and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills to exchange complex information.
• Conduct workflow analysis, business process modeling; develop use cases, test plans, and business rules; assist in user acceptance testing.
• Collaborate on design and implementation of workflow solutions that provide long term scalability, reliability, and performance, and integration with reporting.
• Develop in-depth knowledge and proficiency of supported business areas and engage business partners in evaluating opportunities for process integration and refinement.
• Gather requirements and provide solutions across Business Sectors
• Partner with cross functional teams to analyze, deconstruct, and map current state process and identify improvement opportunities including creation of target operation models.
• Assist in negotiating for resources owned by other areas in order ensure required work is completed on schedule
• Develop and maintain documentation on an ongoing basis, and train new and existing users
• Direct the communication of status, issue, and risk disposition to all stakeholders, including Senior Management
• Direct the identification of risks which impact project delivery and ensure mitigation strategies are developed and executed when necessary
• Ensure that work flow business case / cost benefit analyses are in line with business objectives
• Deliver coherent and concise communications detailing the scope, progress and results of initiatives underway
• Develop strategies to reduce costs, manage risk, and enhance services
• Deploy influencing and matrix management skills in order to ensure technology solutions meet business requirements
• Performs other duties and functions as assigned.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• MBA or Advanced Degree Information Systems, Business Analysis / Computer Science
• 6-10 years experience using tools for statistical modeling of large data sets
• Process Improvement or Project Management experience

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
• Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning while monitoring end results
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards
• Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with overall technology function to achieve established goals
• Provide evaluative judgement based on analysis of facts in complicated, unique, and dynamic situations including drawing from internal and external sources
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as necessary
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in applications development
• Experience in management
• Experience managing global technology teams
• Working knowledge of industry practices and standards
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

Required Skills (Essential)

• Programming skills – including concurrent, parallel and distributed systems programming

• Expert level knowledge of Java

• Expert level experience with HTTP, ReSTful web services and API design

• Messaging technologies (Kafka)

• Experience with Bigdata technologies Developer Hadoop , Apache Spark ,Python, PySpark

• Experience with Reactive Streams

Desirable Skills:

• Messaging technologies

• Familiarity with hadoop SQL interfaces like hive, spark sql, etc.

• Experience with Kubernetes

• Good understanding of the Linux OS

• Experience with Gradle, maven would be beneficial

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Transaction Management will be responsible for supporting multiple aspects of the lending lifecycle including but not limited to loan closing and servicing coordination, facilitating complex client onboarding, data management, and quality control. The team will be accountable and responsible for operational oversight of the closing and servicing of all loan transactions of the business division being supported to ensure all internal and external requirements are met.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the build and development team to support loan origination and lifecycle management which includes large complex syndicated and bilateral loans covering but not limited to corporate, commercial, real estate, structured lending and trade.
• Assist with the creation of processes, standards, procedures, controls, training, and implementation of transaction management.
• Aid in the design and implementation of technology including testing and rollout.
• Provide training and support to transaction management staff and business constituents.
• Partner with each of the originating and coverage business lines, credit risk, operations, legal, etc.
• Ensure that quality of data, controls and processes performed meet internal policies and regulatory requirements/expectations.
• Work with lines of business, transaction management, and loan operations to define and implement operational metrics and risk and control reviews to ensure all stakeholders have end to end transparency.
• Constantly improve processes, controls and efficiencies within the group and front to back across loan lifecycle
• Participate in projects to enhance performance and efficiency.
• Take part in loan remediation and loan system testing / migrations.
• Actively manage and maintain a deal closing pipeline of loan transactions.
• Coordinate and close loan transactions/lifecycle events, capture data, store documentation, troubleshoot issues/roadblocks, perform quality control
• Focus on achieving/exceeding key operating standards within a KPI/metrics driven culture
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 1-2 years of experience
• Individual must have excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work well under tight deadlines, manage priorities, and complete assigned tasks with minimal management follow up.
• Strong Excel and other Microsoft based programs.
• Experience with Loan IQ, transaction capture tools, etc.
• Keen attention to detail
• Developed analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Client relationship and solution skills

Additional non-core qualifications which will be considered are:

• Experience within a large global team supporting wholesale lending at large financial Institution
• Knowledge of wholesale loan (syndicated / bilateral) product and business, including an understanding of legal loan documentation, loan a plus
• Experience working with clients under time constraints to facilitate a transaction or process.
• Proven ability to collaborate with team members, Senior management, and other business constituents
• Critical decision-making capabilities including the ability to identify, escalate, and propose solutions to problems
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent deadlines through the practice of strong organizational and time management skills
• Understanding and awareness of appropriate corporate and regulatory policies in relation to Lending
• Deep understanding of operational processes supporting Wholesale lending a plus
• Ability to work in an environment where priorities are frequently changing

Education:

• Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience

Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Pega Senior Programmer Analyst is lead development position responsible for driving strategic business process management initiatives using Pega technologies. Will be a key member of a dynamic team with responsibility below:

• Drive all aspects of project lifecycle. Partner with IT vendors and business to define requirements and develop functional specifications. Design, estimate, build and deploy Pega PRPC application as well as perform project oversight.
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement
• Consult with users/clients and other technology groups on issues and recommend / install programming solutions
• develop solutions for updating or improving existing applications and infrastructure to meet IT commitments to the business
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes
• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts

Technical Skills:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience working on Business Process Management (BPM) solutions demonstrating expertise on Pega Infinity
• Proficient in application design and development using Pega Infinity 8.3 or higher
• Proficient in SQL with working knowledge of designing relational databases in Oracle
• Should have at-least CSSA certification; LSA highly preferred.
• Hands on experience on Cosmos, Survey and DX APIs will be a big plus
• Knowledge of Rest Web Services, Micro Services and CI/CD is a plus
• Knowledge of cloud technology or Pega deployment on containers is a plus
• Experience in Agile methodology and CI/CD is a plus

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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Responsibilities:

• Conducts initiatives related to User Acceptance Testing (UAT) process and product rollout into production. Testing specialists who work with technology project managers, UAT professionals and users to design and implement appropriate scripts/plans for an application testing strategy/approach. Responsibilities may also include software quality assurance testing.
• Conducts a variety of tests and analyses to ensure that systems and or applications meet or exceed specified standards and end-user requirements.
• Works closely with key stakeholders to understand business and functional requirements to develop test plans, test cases and scripts.
• Works complex testing assignments.
• Executes test scripts according to application requirements documentation.
• Identifies defects and recommends appropriate course of action; performs root cause analyses.
• Coordinates multiple testers and testing activities within a project.
• Retests after corrections are made to ensure problems are resolved.
• Documents, evaluates and researches test results for future replication.
• Identifies, recommends and implements process improvements to enhance testing strategies.
• Interfaces with development teams if clarification is needed on requirements or to convey test results.
• Exhibits good understanding of concepts and principles in own technical area and a basic knowledge of these elements in other areas.
• Requires basic understanding of how own area integrates within IT testing to achieve objectives.
• Makes evaluative judgments based on analysis of factual information.
• Participate in test strategy meetings,
• Has direct impact on the team and closely related teams by ensuring the quality of the tasks services information provided by self and others.
• Resolves problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and guided by precedents
• Requires sound and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills to exchange complex information.
• Provides informal guidance to new team members.
• Performs other duties and functions as assigned
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• 5-9 years experienceExperience in all phases of functional testing, from test case design and execution to defect tracking and reporting
• Proven track record of developing and maintaining automated test frameworks using Selenium and Cucumber
• Good knowledge of Foreign Exchange markets and Agile methodology.
• Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and QA methodologies Knowledge of Quality Process Knowledge of relevant operating systems, languages and database tools Knowledge of defect tracking systems and processes; including change management Knowledge of automated regression testing tools.
• Requires methodical approach to testing and problem solving.
• Specific software languages will be dependent of area of business

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

• Experience of working in SDLC/STLC, Agile/Scrum development process.
• Experience in writing clear and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• Experience of developing stubs and drivers.
• Hands-on experience on both Black box and white box testing.
• Working knowledge on Oracle / SQL and scripting.
• Experience in test analysis and manual testing.
• Hands-on experience on developing, extending and executing test automation frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of test methodologies and experience of implementing test automation best practices.
• Functional Testing Tools (Any one)/ Frameworks - Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber, JUnit, Selenium Grid, Test Complete
• Test Management , Tracking and Configuration Management Tools – JIRA
• Build Management Tools - Maven, Jenkins

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