Lead Systems Analyst
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Job Description
The Deposits value stream develops, implements, and supports the full application stack for several banking applications and products, including checking, savings, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts. Solutions are implemented using a variety of technologies such as Java, Spring, ReactJS, Mockito, Cucumber, Cloud Foundry, AWS, Git, Unix, Jenkins (CI/CD), Finacle and business process management
What You’ll Do
- Design and develop solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or network concerns.
- Perform systems management and integration functions.
- Design and develop solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or network concerns.
- Perform systems management and integration functions.
- Lead technical efforts and liaise with the vendor to support, integrate, and maintain test automation tools.
- Be responsible for technical QA delivery platform of new capabilities to support continuous integration or continuous delivery of applications integrating with Jenkins.
- Work with other internal information technology teams to complete project activities, such as Infrastructure, Architecture and Database teams and serve as the technical project lead for internal projects, overseeing and reviewing the activities.
- Act as technical resource for, and participate in, the change management review and problem incident report discussions.
- Implement capacity management as business practice for release environment management team, working with other middleware and infrastructure teams.
How You’ll Do It
- Perform root cause analysis and problem-solving involving various infrastructure, such as databases, middleware platforms, and vendor applications across test environments.
- Analyze existing procedures. Develop recommendations for improvements and strive to automate manual processes for existing tools and operations.
- Support users of test environment (development team and other partner groups) for particular application systems, such as Modes and ALM.
- Participate in planning and implementation of project code deployments and infrastructure updates to test environments with minimal intervention to testing.
- Collaborates with Test Planners, Test Leads and QAs to understand project and test requirements and consult for appropriate test environment needs.
- Test entrance readiness, applications making changes, code overlaps across all projects testing in the same release/environment, quality center structure, test planning, test plans as appropriate etc.
- Collaborate with Test Automation, CICD teams to improve automation capabilities.
Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, and engineering, or related field
- 2+ years of experience in application development and testing or in infrastructure/middleware support, or related field
- In lieu of a degree, 4+ years of experience in application development and testing or in infrastructure/middleware support, or related field
Bonus Points If You Have
- Java certification
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience
- Unix/Linux Commands and Scripting
- Version control software (Git/SVN)
- SQL Database experience (Oracle)
- Banking/Lending industry experience
- Finacle Core Banking implementation, troubleshooting, and support experience
- Finacle production support and customer remediation experience
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