Senior Associate

About BNP Paribas India Solutions
Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, European Union's leading bank with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. India Solutions services three business lines: Corporate and Institutional Banking, Investment Solutions and Retail Banking for BNP Paribas across the Group. Driving innovation and growth, we are harnessing the potential of over 10000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.

About BNP Paribas Group
BNP Paribas is the European Union's leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group's commercial & personal banking and several specialised businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment, and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At BNP Paribas, we passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued, respected and can bring their authentic selves to work. We prohibit Discrimination and Harassment of any kind and our policies promote equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, irrespective of, but not limited to their gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, colour, national origin, age, religion, social status, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status etc. As a global Bank, we truly believe that inclusion and diversity of our teams is key to our success in serving our clients and the communities we operate in.

About Business Line/Function
Global Markets IT is the complete gamut of IT solutions that facilitate and enable the Global Markets business of BNP Paribas. Within Global Markets IT, Trade Processing is the domain, which comprises of the range of asset-specific applications that manage the lifetime and workflow of deals right from their capture through to their settlement and reporting.

Job Title
Senior Associate

Date

Department
FX, Commodities & Settlements

Location:

Chennai

Business Line / Function
GM IT

Reports To
(Direct)

Project Manager

Grade
(if applicable)

(Functional)

Number Of Direct Reports
Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

Techno Functional Tester Will Be Responsible For

• Working in collaboration with Development & BA team
• Creating and executing the functional testing suite.
• Design and create the automation test plans and the automation test scripts for NRT
• Should be self-motivated, proactive and a good team player.
• Should have experience in work effectively in fast paced environments.
• Proactive Communication on issues / risks / status
• High Quality Focus, follow the defined workflow and ensure the project KPIs are within the limits
• Gain application, business and functional knowledge

Responsibilities
Direct Responsibilities

Design And Create a Test Plan

• Integrate and assimilate the specifications provided by BA (Business Analyst) / Product Owner.
• Write the test plan which will prove that the programs fulfil the required functions.

Submit the test plan to the BA

• Communicate with the BA for validation.
• Integrate the remarks and update the test plan.

Prepare the test environment

• Stay informed on the preparation of the test's environments by development team
• Create the necessary tests data, in collaboration with development team.

Delivery of development

• Stay informed on the scheduling of delivery of development.
• Take account of the results of tests from development team, to decide to start testing.

Execute the test plan for SIT

• Execute the tests defined in the test plan.
• Update the Acceptance report and the defects database.
• If any problem, contact the development team and BA.

Monitoring and Test Report

• Periodically report the testing progress to Application management
• Highlight test and quality risks to Application management

Contributing Responsibilities

• Ability & motivation to work in tight deadlines
• Must have good analytical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must be flexible, independent and self-motivated
• Strong writing, communication and presentation skills to audiences of different sizes and levels of seniority

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Experience: 5 to 7 years

Skills

• Automation Testing
• Agile, JIRA, HP-ALM
• SQL Server
• Selenium / Cucumber
• Strong Functional testing experience in Investment Banking/Capital Markets domain
• Exposure to Hedge Funds, Mutual Funds, Collateral Management, Accounting, Risk, Settlements and Pricing
• Hands-on Funds Financing Activity and Mutual Fund Trading Activity would be ideal profile for this position
• Create test cases and test data as per requirements.
• Experience in writing SQL queries for backend validation
• Analyze test cases thoroughly to ensure adequate coverage of requirements.
• Execute test cases, analyze test results and should be able to deep data analysis and troubleshoot issues.
• Should possess good knowledge with Testing concepts (Test Strategy, Test Plan, Estimations, Test Closer reports, etc.).
• Closely work with Dev teams/BA to resolve issues and to develop a good understanding of the project and test objectives.
• Understanding the existing Automation framework
• Enhance the Automation framework
• Automation test execution & tool maintenance
• Automate manual test cases using Selenium-Cucumber
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Should be able to communicate effectively with IT teams as well as Business Teams
• Must be flexible, independent and self-motivated
• Hands on experience in JIRA and HP-ALM.
• Should be able to perform all testing-related duties.

Behavioural

• Must be flexible, independent and self-motivated
• Should be adaptable with the tools used as part of testing
• Perform other testing-related duties as required

Specific Qualifications (if Required)

• Hands-on experience of Automation tools, techniques and framework development in particular,
• Selenium Automation with Core-Java Language
• Candidate should have experience in automation framework development
• Should have working experience with POM/Test NG (Selenium)
• Test script experience in Angular web applications
• Should work on Key word / Data Driven automation framework
• Should work on IE, Edge, Chrome browser-based application with Data Base validation
• Extended experience on Locators finding (Xpath & CSS)
• Exposure to web services testing (Preferred)
• Good automation experience in CI/CD under Agile – Dev. Ops model.

Skills Referential
Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to deliver / Results driven

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Creativity & Innovation / Problem solving

Adaptability

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Ability To Develop Others & Improve Their Skills
Analytical Ability

Ability to understand, explain and support change

Ability to develop and adapt a process

Ability to set up relevant performance indicators

Education Level
Master Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 5 years