QA Lead - TOSCA

Looking for an experienced Business Analyst with a strong data analytics background in Supply Chain Domain and willing to learn new technologies. This role is responsible for developing and enhancing products in supply chain, manufacturing, and unstructured data.  

What You'll Do

•       Discuss with customers/SME to understand business processes and formulate solutions to intricate requirements.

•       Working with large datasets from disparate systems to derive trends, patterns, and correlations that integrates with data-driven solutions. 

•       Play a key role in enhancing the value of products and services.  

•       Produce quality deliverables like, high and detailed level designs including data model, API specifications, wireframes, program logics, user requirement documents etc.

•       Collaborate with the development team to ensure development is carried out as per the specifications. Guide the young development team with creative logics to solve complex requirements.

•       Create test scripts and carry out functional testing, generate test results and ensure development is done as per expectations.

•       Create WBS of new project/activity with task timelines and milestones with business outcomes . Estimate efforts required for each task.

•       Ensure delivery of the tasks are as per the project timelines. Contribute to the achievement of Project KPI’s.

•       Follow project management process as defined for the project (JIRA / any other application).

•       Attend daily or periodic meetings with the clients, present status and discuss requirements, challenges and manage situations. 

•       Establish good relations with the clients and look for new business opportunities identified by gaps or pain points faced by them.

•       Acting as a single source of contact for the business requirements for the delivery team. 

•       Prioritize, Manage & Deliver multiple tasks meeting aligned timelines, with optimal quality and optimize customer satisfaction.

•       Work in a distributed team environment across multiple time-zones.

•       Requirements

•       Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

•       5+ years of experience in the role of a Business Analyst.

•       A positive and welcoming attitude to undertake multiple complex tasks despite time constraints and effectively managing them. 

•       Self-directed, self-driven and proactive approach to solve problems leveraging available resources.

•       Possess analytical way of thinking and troubleshooting issues.

•       Excellent client-facing, interpersonal and communication skills.

•       Hands-on with SQL Data analysis.

•       Proficient in Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint.

•       Proficient in Jira - decompose business processes into epics, user stories, acceptance criteria and manage product backlog.

•       Ability to create good project documentation.

•       Nice to Have

•       Functional experience in SAP/JDE in Supply chain: production/procurement/sales and distribution. 

•       A good understanding of business processes in cross functional areas.

•       Experience and knowledge in analyzing supply chain tables/data of at least one ERP system, SAP or JDE. Knowledge in how tables can be joined to bring out a business reporting requirement.

•       E2E ERP implementation experience is an added advantage.

•       An understanding of Visualization tools (e.g. Tableau/Power BI/Graph UI)

•       Experience on Consumer, Pharma/Life-Sciences industry.

•       Basic ability to understand technical code ABAP / Python etc. 

He will perform several important roles within our organization.

1.  Primarily responsible for timely research, planning, and implementing new products /services for our company.

2.  Will also be required to oversee the entire development process of new products and programs within the dept and ensure timely delieveries

3.  Active participation will be required from the initial planning phase to implementation or production and timely final rollout .

4.  Would be required to keep track of all the costs related to the creation of these new products and decide what ideas are worth pursuing.

5.  Should also be proactive to stay informed on what is happening in the research and development field at large to make sure the company is up-to-date and current with the most advanced R&D developments.

6.  He will be required to laison around and take permissions if required

for with various governmental and non governmental agencies .

7.  Complete knowledge of getting various certifications relating to IPR & various certifications like OEM registrations etc is also required for making the processes successfully

8.  Traveling as per the requirement of the project need

Qualification, Experience & Critical Capabilities

• Graduation in Engineering (Preferred Computer Science)/ Post Graduation with 8 years (+) hands on experience working in SAP MDM / MDG.
• Experience in writing User Story/Business Requirement Specification, USDD (User Story Design Document)/Functional/Technical Specifications and understand Devops, Agile methodology/framework.
• Act as a partner to the Business for Business Process Query Incidents, Small Change (Projects), Problem Management and define right solution from Design and Cost perspective by aligning with Chief Architect Group (CAG) as and when needed.
• Coordinates with business users and other IT departments to design, develop, implement, enhance and maintain complex solutions.
• Be able to support and challenge the Partners (Vendors) on quotation of Change efforts, Fulfill the role of a SME (subject matter expert), Oversee and support the development of the solution, Validate the functionality as per business needs, support testing (IST & UAT) and User training.
• Experience in collaboration with different domains (functions) within Syngenta and third-party Partners (Vendors).

Relevant Experience

• 8 years (+) experience working as SAP MDM / MDG Functional Analyst.
• Should have worked on implementation of MDM.
• Good to have: Exposure to migration of SAP MDM to MDG.

MDM:

• Experience in MDM configuration.
• Experience in Integrating business process requirements with the technical implementation of SAP Master Data Management / Governance.
• Set up Validation (Business) rules, Workflow process, Import/Syndication Maps.
• Setup and use of MDM Transport Management.
• Design understanding of material / products master repository architecture.
• Experience working on SAP MDM Production Support and New Enhancements.
• Knowledge of handling MDM integration with different systems. Ex MDM <> ECC, SFDC etc.
• Understanding the Business problem and the different Master data used in the Organization (say if its Material Master/Customer/Vendor/Finance Master data etc.).
• Develops and implements strategies to translate business requirements and models into feasible and acceptable designs to ensure that business needs are met.
• Once the understanding phase is done Functional Analyst will have to work with vendor to provide a Solution through SAP MDM and then design and Implement the solution end to end.
• Strong hands on experience in MDM Console, Data Manager, Import Manager, Syndicator, Workflow, Data modeling, Standardization, Cleansing and SAP ECC.
• Consultant should try to wider there view for all the different platforms that are used with MDM such as Netweaver , XI, ABAP etc.
• Identifies areas for data quality improvements and helps to resolve data quality problems through the appropriate choice of error detection and correction, process control and improvement, or process design strategies.

MDG:

• Configuration exposure with MDG product / material data objects.
• Experience in UI modelling (Design and Creation of UI, Value restriction and Derivation rules).
• Understanding and familiarity with MDG application framework and various governance API's.
• Able to perform MDG configurations and customizations in areas like data modeling, process modeling, key mapping, duplicate checks, validations, replication and MDG error handling.
• Knowledge in activation and configuration of the MDG modules & components.
• Expertise in Data Model Enhancement, Data Transfer (DIF/DEF), Data Replication Framework (DRF) via ALE / IDOC, key and value mapping.
• Able to perform MDG Configurations and Customizations in areas like Data Modeling, Process Modeling, Key Mapping, Duplicate checks, validations and MDG error handling experience.

General Experience and Prerequisites 

• Excellent written and verbal communication around issues, managing escalations.
• Experience in client facing and managing outsourced partners.
• A Team player with a collaborative attitude, proactive and ability to work under pressure.
• Good understanding of agile ways of working (DevOps model), knowledge on ITIL processes.
• Knowledge of Lean/ 6 Sigma, Design Thinking, Agile methodology.
• Certification in SAP MDM / MDG preferred.

Company and Founders
Egregore Labs (http://www.egregorelabs.com/" target="_blank">www.egregorelabs.com) is a financial software company founded in 2017 by Prashant Vijay (ISB, Tulane) & Hari Balaji (IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Madras) both of whom have spent over a decade each in Financial Services, with a majority of their experience at Goldman Sachs across New York, Hong Kong & Singapore in roles across Trading, Quant & Technology. More about the founders is available here and here

We operate at the intersection of Unstructured Data and Finance. We run multiple products, including Romulus (http://www.romulus.co/" target="_blank">www.romulus.co) and Robana (http://www.robana.ai/" target="_blank">www.robana.ai) - all our products work on the same underlying principles and set of technologies.

Ideal Background

• At least 2 years experience in back-end development in a fast-paced environment, working in Python
• Deep understanding of technologies used in web-deployed SaaS products, including Rest APIs
• Exposure to AWS, Azure, or other cloud providers
• Sound understanding of computer science principles
• Exposure to any of the following
  • Financial services
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Robotic Process Automation
  • Intelligent Document Processing
  • Document Management and Repositories

Opportunity
We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:

• Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
• Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
• Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
• Build POCs for client deployments
• Integrate our products with 3rd party products/tools/services
• Document your code, write test cases, etc.

Skills

• Hands-on experience with Python (2+ years)
• Sound understanding of Postgres and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB
• Deep familiarity with UNIX, major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), DevOps
• Understanding of databases, and related tools, paradigms
• A computer science education would be great, but other engineering disciplines are ok as well

Desirables
We are looking for a person who has :

• Resourcefulness- - we're looking for versatile developers who are good at figuring out what they need to use, learn, build, re-purpose to get the job done quickly and efficiently.
• Ownership- - We like to be directive and not prescriptive in our management. We- d love for you to take ownership of what you work on, and tell us what to do, rather than the other way round.
• Work Ethic- - We've grown up on Wall Street. We work hard and have aggressive goals. We want our teammates to be focused, goal-oriented, and consistent high achievers.
• Execution Focus- - Our business is about getting things done and getting things done right. We want outcome-focused colleagues who can multi-task, and execute quickly and elegantly.

Interested?
We are an early-stage company. Working here is not for the faint-hearted. An intense and unstructured work environment, lots of excitement, and a group of motivated colleagues are what we bring to the table. We ask you to bring your undivided attention, strong worth ethic & resourcefulness. We are Delhi-based and work 6 days a week. Currently, due to the pandemic, we are operating remotely since Feb 2020.

Responsibilities and Duties
You'd be responsible to:

• conceptualize new content ideas,
• research on the assigned topics,
• and create high-quality content around mobile games.
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Qualifications and Skills

• Impeccable written and verbal command over English is a must.
• Graduate/post-graduate in English literature or Technology would be a plus.
• Must NOT be over 28 years old in age.