DescriptionThe Role
This role will be an integral part of a global team that will deliver technical solutions in a quality and efficient manner to clients around the world.
Performance Objectives:
Excellence
- Provides expertise in the clients business and in the industry where the client belongs.
- Responsible for the analysis and definition of the business and system requirements recommends solutions to improve the clients business.
- Communicates the business requirements and recommends solutions clearly to the Project Manager or Development Team. Has a good understanding of what it takes to deliver solutions.
- Participates in the development of solutions and ensures that solutions and other deliverables satisfy the business requirements.
- Creates technical documentation and functional user documentation.
- Develop comprehensive test plans for system implementations.
- Performs unit and comprehensive testing with system developers for overall quality assurance of functional and technical quality of deliverables.
- Trains users on the system and provides ongoing technical support.
- Identifies and raises risks and issues related to business needs and the teams capability to meet these in a timely manner
- Support management and business development team in the assessment of new clients business needs to capture new businesses by evaluation writing and presenting proposals.
- Provides inputs to project management for use in schedule planning.
- Assists Project Manager in determining work effort and scheduling.
- Tracks the project status and communicates status to project manager or lead consultants or to client as appropriate.
- Ensures that assigned tasks are accomplished within the planned work durations.
- Ensures that accomplishments and work hours are accurately accounted for in Extensity (or equivalent timesheet tool) and in weekly status reports.
- Manages the business and system requirements of the clients ensures that these needs are satisfied in all system and system-related deliverables.
- Ensure that business requirements are controlled in accordance with the project scope.
- Reviews deliverables/output. Ensures conformance of deliverables to agreed business needs of the clients.
- Ensures conformance to defined standards and processes.
- Collaborate in defining standards and processes to be followed to ensure quality in undertaking tasks and producing deliverables.
- Assists in developing standardized work processes tools and methodologies that improve quality and profitability.
- Experience with test automation is a plus.
- Ability to learn/use automated testing tools and AI for QA
Clients
- Communicate effectively with clients and project teams.
- Attend team or client meetings as appropriate to present project specifications or report project status.
- Develop strong client relationships from middle to senior management.
- Ensures that clients business expectations are always aligned with commitments.
Financial
- Assists project managers or other lead consultants in determining and monitoring overall project direction scope work plans and budgets.
- Assist in determining requirements for estimating new project budgets
QualificationsThe Requirements
- Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering Management Information Systems or related areas.
- At least five years of relevant work experience
- Experience or training in: Web-based applications and tools
- Experience with test plan creation testing procedures and test plan execution is preferred.
- Experience in the Financials Human Resources or Benefits domain areas is preferred but not required
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
- Experience working with US and/or UK colleagues is preferred.
- Ability to work on virtual teams with members from different geographic areas
- Ability to multi-task and be mindful of deadlines.
- Self-motivated and ability to remain focused on assigned projects.
- Committed to quality and continuous improvement
WTW is an Equal Opportunity Employer