Consultant Specialist

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist.

Business: Enterprise Technology

Principal responsibilities

• Analyze business requirements, scope, to identify testing needs and approach

• Liaising with product owner and developers for clarity on stories, acceptance criteria and testing scope

• Prepare testing schedule and related testing activities while identifying and resolving all potential risks and issues

• Participate in project workshop to generate testing approach and perform risk assessment

• Coordinate with various participants and teams to prepare test cases, data set-ups and test environments, as well as manage the defect and define the process of path to live. Ensure the stories delivered meet business requirements and are delivered on time and within budget to an agreed level of quality.  

• Attend every standup and other agile ceremonies

• Participate in project meetings despite their nature and have to ensure that all the findings of the meetings are getting practically addressed in the project.

• Work closely with architecture team to deliver solutions that appropriately address business needs and timelines.

• Play a key role to contribute in designing, developing automated test cases during development process and make sure the test cases are incorporate into the daily build process

• Familiar with Public Cloud security, monitoring and analytics tools

• Abilities to evaluate future cloud application and make recommendations for implementation, deployment, and provisioning applications on public cloud platform. (Mainly on GCP / AliCloud)

• Capabilities to provide best practices guidance on the architectural design and development to the implementation team

• Ability to work with different stakeholders from different locations (China, Hong Kong, UK)

• Provide guidance to Cloud DevOps engineers on the engineering approaches to implement solution.

• Have knowledge on data model and database design, such as table structure design, index design, stored procedures, triggers, etc. design and development capabilities.

• Have proficiency in SQL statements, including add, delete, modify, query SQL and complex queries such as JOIN, subquery and other statements.

• Proficient in Alibaba Cloud products MaxCompute, DataWorks and OSS will be prioritized.

• 7+ years experiences in in IT development, testing, SME and support activities

• A university graduate with degree in computer science or a related discipline 

• Strong analytical, design and problem solving skills; excellent team player with ability to work under pressure with minimal supervision

• Experience of working in a DevOps focused environment and working in an Agile Team

• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills with good command of written and spoken English

• Experience on converting data and related techniques to acquire data needed to support testing, training, and other application development activities

• Solid knowledge of external cloud providers such as Google Cloud, or Ali Cloud.

• Strong knowledge of architecture discipline and the ability put the governance into practice, knowledge of industry standard architecture frameworks would be an advantage

Technical Skills – must-have

• Python / Java / SQL

• Linux, Bash/shell scripting.

• DevOps principles & tools (CICD, Bamboo/Jenkins, Github/Bitbucket, JIRA, Confluence).

• Agile development principles (Scrum, Kanban, MVP).

• Data (databases, management, transformation, metadata).

• Security (IAM, roles, service accounts, entitlements).

What additional skills will be good to have?

Technical Skills – nice-to-have

• AliCloud certified.

• Containers/Docker/Kubernetes.

• Big Data, HDP (Hadoop ecosystem).

• Automation toolset (Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible).

• Experience of streaming data using frameworks/tools (Spark/Flint/Storm etc).

• Nexus, Git, GitHub.

• Network configuration, VPC, VPN.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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