Key Area of Responsibilities (KAR):

• • Project Planning & Execution:
    • Develop detailed project plans outlining project scope, objectives, timeline, and deliverables.
    • Coordinate and manage the execution of IT projects, ensuring alignment with business goals.
    • Identify and manage dependencies between tasks and across project work streams to ensure successful delivery.
  • Team Collaboration & Coordination:
    • Lead and manage cross-functional project teams, including IT specialists, business analysts, and external vendors.
    • Assign tasks, set expectations, and monitor progress to ensure that project milestones are achieved.
    • Foster a collaborative team environment, ensuring all members have clear roles and responsibilities.
  • Stakeholder Management:
    • Engage with business leaders, project sponsors, and other stakeholders to define project goals and objectives.
    • Communicate regularly with stakeholders to provide updates on project status, risks, and changes.
    • Manage stakeholder expectations and resolve conflicts or concerns as they arise.
  • Risk & Issue Management:
    • Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues throughout the project lifecycle.
    • Proactively address issues that may impact project delivery, ensuring minimal disruption to timelines and outcomes.
    • Develop contingency plans to address unforeseen challenges or changes.
  • Project Monitoring & Reporting:
    • Monitor project progress, identifying and addressing deviations from the original plan.
    • Prepare and present regular project status reports, dashboards, and performance metrics for senior leadership.
    • Maintain and update project documentation, including project plans, timelines, risk logs, and issue trackers.
  • Quality Assurance:
    • Ensure that all project deliverables meet the required quality standards and business requirements.
    • Oversee testing, validation, and user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure project success.
    • Review and ensure compliance with organizational and industry standards for IT projects.
  • Continuous Improvement:
    • Contribute to improving the organization’s project management processes, tools, and techniques.
    • Share lessons learned from completed projects to help refine best practices and improve future project outcomes.
    • Encourage a culture of learning and process optimization within the project management team.
  • Any other duties related to this role.

Basic Requirements:

• Extensive PMO experience in core banking projects, trade finance projects or corporate lending projects.
• Proven ability to lead PMO tasks independently.
• Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Finance, or related fields.
• Experience:
  • Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in IT project management or a related role in Corporate Banking (Trade Finance, Lending, CASA, Payment) field.
  • Proven experience in managing IT projects, including software development, infrastructure, or system implementation.
  • Experience working with both Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies.
  • Familiarity with project management tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, Jira).
• Skills:
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact with stakeholders at all levels.
  • Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple projects.
  • Problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to issue identification and resolution.
  • Strong leadership and team management abilities, with the ability to motivate and guide project teams.

• Preferred Skills:

  • Certifications:
    • PMP, Agile/Scrum certification, or other relevant project management certifications.
  • Technical Expertise:
    • Familiarity with Corporate Banking systems, software development life cycle (SDLC), cloud technologies, or enterprise applications.
  • Tools:
    • Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as MS Office Tools, Jira, Confluence, or others.

Key Area of Responsibilities (KAR):

• Lead the full lifecycle of System Acceptance Testing (SAT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring alignment with defined requirements.
• Create and manage detailed test plans covering testing strategy, scope, resources, timelines, and deliverables.
• Design comprehensive test cases with clear objectives, data inputs, execution steps, and expected results, ensuring traceability to system requirements.
• Set up and manage realistic and reliable test environments that reflect the project landscape.
• Oversee test execution across functional, non-functional, regression, performance, and load testing domains.
• Maintain end-to-end traceability between test cases and project requirements to confirm comprehensive coverage.
• Manage the complete defect lifecycle, ensuring timely logging, prioritization, escalation, tracking, and resolution.
• Review and validate key testing deliverables such as test plans, test results, and requirement traceability matrices with project stakeholders.
• Deliver data-driven test progress reports including defect summaries, test completion status, risks, and issues.
• Ensure robust documentation practices throughout the testing process.
• Any other duties related to this role.

Basic Requirements:

• Diploma / Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in software testing and quality assurance leadership roles within IT projects.
• Professional certification in quality assurance/testing (e.g., ISTQB, CSTE, or equivalent) is highly desirable.
• Proven experience managing SIT and UAT phases in complex IT projects.
• Strong skills in planning, documenting, executing, and reporting on software testing activities.
• Solid understanding of middleware architecture, systems integration, and BPM tools.
• Proficiency with QA tools (Tosca Tricentis), test management systems, and defect tracking platforms.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Attention to detail and a structured approach to problem-solving and quality control.
• Prior experience or competency in Business Analysis (BA) is considered a plus.
• Strong communications skills to handle impromptu requests.
• Meticulous and attentive to details.