Cognizant
Senior Business Analyst (SC Cleared)

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About the Role
Role will be part of our Quality Engineering & Assurance (QE&A) Practice. With more than 650 clients across industry verticals and a global footprint, Cognizant QE&A practice is a recognized thought leader in quality engineer and Assurance.
As enterprises simplify, modernize and secure their legacy environments for the digital era, robust quality Engineering and assurance is essential. Quality takes an end-to-end connotation and must straddle both legacy and digital systems. Cognizant QE&A is reimagining QE&A, employing an end-to-end ecosystem approach with intelligent and automated QA processes. In so doing, increasing quality and speed to promote faster business and technology change, as well as a better customer experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Stakeholder Management: Work with product owners, risk teams, and tech leads to clarify project goals.
- Requirements Gathering: Run workshops to document functional and non-functional needs for Banking and payment systems.
- Process Mapping: Draw current-state and future-state data flows for transaction processing.
- Backlog Grooming: Write clear user stories and acceptance criteria in Jira for Scrum teams.
- Gap Analysis: Check how new features fit into legacy banking architecture.
- Compliance and Regulatory Focus - Regulatory Alignment, Data Security: Review requirements for strong customer authentication (SCA) and fraud detection. Audit Readiness: Maintain clear traceability matrices from business needs to final code delivery.
- Testing and Delivery Support - UAT Support: Help business users write and execute user acceptance test scripts. Defect Triage: Review failed tests and clarify expected behavior with developers.
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Essential Criteria (all roles)
- Good experience in working within financial institutions delivering Banking and Payments projects, with a focus on Trading, Investment Banking and/or Treasury.
- Should have experience of Testing Lifecycle to support BDD framework of requirement definitions and creating Testing suites for technology team to consume and build Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing.


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Specialist Expertise (at least one of the following)
- FCRM (Financial Crime Risk Management): Anti Money Laundering, Fraud Detection and Sanctions screening solutions.
- ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), preferably SAP.
- Data Business Analyst: data requirements, data modelling, data quality, lineage, reporting and analytics solutions.
- Loan valuation, asset-based securities, risk modelling and collateral knowledge.
- Financial markets, securities settlement or market infrastructure, including familiarity with CREST and post-trade processes.
- CRM (Customer Relationship Management) platforms and related customer, stakeholder and operational process transformation initiatives.
Very strong BAs with a ‘general’ Banking and Payments background will also be considered, provided they meet the minimum and essential criteria.
Additional Requirement
Candidates should be SC Cleared.
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