IT Officer, Business Solutions I

Job #: req11253

Organization: World Bank

Sector: Information Technology

Grade: GF

Term Duration: 2 years 0 months

Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment

Location: Sofia,Bulgaria

Required Language(s): English

Preferred Language(s): Closing Date: 3/26/2021 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

About the World Bank Group:

Established in 1944, the World Bank Group (WBG) is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, the WBG works with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges.

ITS Vice Presidency Context:

Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) enables the WBG to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in a sustainable way by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150 locations.

Our vision is to transform how the Bank Group accomplishes its mission through information and technology. In this fast-paced, ever-changing world, the formulation and implementation of the ITS strategy is an ongoing, iterative process of learning and adaptation developed through extensive consultations with business partners throughout the World Bank Group.

ITS shapes its strategy in response to changing business priorities and leverages new technologies to achieve three high-level business outcomes:

business enablement, by providing Bank Group units with innovative digital tools and technologies to transform how they deliver value for their clients;

empowerment & effectiveness, by ensuring that all Bank Group staff are connected, able to find information, and productive to accelerate the delivery of development solutions globally; and

resilience, by equipping the Bank Group to provide risk-based cybersecurity and robust data protection for a global network and a growing cloud platform.

Implementation of the strategy is guided by three core principles. The first is to deliver solutions for business partners that are customer-centric, innovative, and transformative. The second is to provide the Bank Group with value for money with selective and standard technologies. The third principle is to excel at the basics by providing a high performing, robust, and resilient IT environment for the organization.

The IT Officer, Business Solutions will join the ITSBG department under Project Lifecycle Management (PLM) Program from 04/01/2021, for 2 years to support Automation testing across different applications/requirements and will be playing a Team Lead role to manage cross applications. The Team Lead will be leading the cross-ITSBG applications and provide support to the team members. This role requires a seasoned professional with a versatile QA skill-set capable of coordinating components of a large-scale and complex project and adeptly interfacing with multiple stakeholders in a matrix organizational structure; while ensuring delivery is within scope, schedule, and budget.

As a unit within the Finance ITS (ITSFI), ITSBG provides distinct and complex financial solutions support to the operation of the World Bank Group Finance& Accounting, Development Finance, Treasury, and Global Climate Change Vice presidencies.

Responsibilities:

  • Play a key role in leading, managing, and delivering on project objectives.
  • Ensure project delivery is on-time, within scope, and within budget.
  • Manage relationships with clients and all stakeholders, and conduct project status reporting and communications.
  • Assist in the definition of project and sub-project stream scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring business and technical feasibility.
  • Develop and maintain comprehensive project plan(s) to monitor and track progress.
  • Prepare, manage, and report on the project budget based on scope of work and resource requirements.
  • Manage changes to the project scope, schedule, and budget, leveraging appropriate methodologies and tools.
  • Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques. Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals and milestones.
  • Perform risk management to minimize and mitigate project risks (create and maintain a comprehensive risk register).
  • Report and escalate issues and risks to management, as required.
  • Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for successful project execution, as required.
  • Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
  • Measure project performance to identify areas for improvement and capture lessons learned.
  • Utilize industry project management best practices, techniques, and standards throughout the entire project lifecycle.
  • Clarify behavior and high-level requirements by writing test scenarios.
  • Setup and manage an integration environment to run the tests.
  • Automate Web based application testing using Selenium.
  • Run automated scripts, analyze the results and report to the interested parties.
  • Maintain, update and support existing automation test scripts.
  • Follow and improve the coding and security standards adopted in the team.
  • Work according Agile Scrum methodologies.
  • Perform manual testing where necessary.
  • Report defects to your colleagues, work together to get them fixed.
  • Propose changes to improve quality in the future.

Selection Criteria

  • Masters with minimum of 5+ years of experience, or Bachelors with minimum of 7+ years of experience in test automation with Selenium and Leadership skills.
  • Should have experience in leading the team of at least 10 members.
  • Flexibility to work in close co-ordination with on-site and offshore teams, as well as support end-users across the globe.
  • Make Smart Decisions - Leverages available data and makes timely decisions.
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, internationally diverse work environment are essential.
  • Strong familiarity with project management tools, methodologies, and best practices.
  • Mentor production support staff.
  • Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, high motivation, responsibility, self-organization, and willingness to work in a dynamic atmosphere
  • Strong collaboration and group facilitation skills.
  • Ability to function independently with limited direction and guidance.
  • Strong working experience with Java based automation testing tools like Selenium or similar.
  • Experience with BDD, Behavior Driven Development (Cucumber, Gherkin)
  • Experience with programming languages (.NET, Python, Java)
  • Knowledge on automation framework and experienced in data-driven and keyword-driven approaches.
  • Good communication skills in English, both written and oral.
  • Strong commitment to quality and out of the box mindset.
  • Having knowledge of methodologies and testing techniques while creating scenarios for automation.
  • Having knowledge of primary standards and peculiarities of backend and web applications testing.
  • Experience in automation of API and RESTful services.
  • Having good English communication skills.
  • Experience in using test management/tracking tools ( Azure Devops, Jira etc..)

Note:

"The selected person will be hired on two year renewable Term contract which can be extended based on business needs and performance."

Poverty has no borders, neither does excellence. We succeed because of our differences and we continuously search for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds from around the globe.

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