Co-operative Bank Jobs in Kenya

System Performance Engineer

At Co-operative Bank “The Kingdom bank”, great ideas have a way of becoming

great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. 

Bring passion and dedication to your

job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish. Imagine what you could do

here.

We’re looking for a System Performance Engineer who is confident in their

ability to manage mission critical business – facing internal tools. 

This person should be a great

communicator; creating specifications, proposing designs for systems, and

generally collaborating with others to engineer robust and reliable

systems. 

This person carefully considers

redundancy and availability in their designs, and they understand the value of

developing good monitoring and dashboards.

This person is not afraid to take a

stand and propose a new procedure or best practice, or to ask questions when

something doesn’t work to their satisfaction.

Reporting to the head of ICT Quality Assurance, the System Performance Engineer

will support the performance test function within the technical test team using

the bank’s enterprise tools and product specific simulators. 

The successful candidate will be

responsible for conducting system performance testing to ensure system

reliability, capacity and scalability and project resource requirements on

systems to handle future business growth in volumes and feed into the demand

and capacity planning team for planning and budgeting. 

He/she will be working with internal

customers to translate nonfunctional requirements into real world user

scenarios to simulate the transactions and volumes the system is required to

support and to ensure that the application / product under test meets

requirements.

The Role
 

Specifically, the successful

jobholder will be required to:

• Understand the architecture and associated
  
  components of the applications and systems under evaluation.


• Work with product owners and business analysts
  
  to understand and help translate the non-functional requirements into
  
  documented performance test scenarios.


• Put together and agree a plan for performance
  
  testing for the systems under test, with the help of technical team lead
  
  and assist in project planning, scheduling, budgeting and tracking
  
  activities.


• Agree with stakeholders on monitoring requirements
  
  to effectively plan capacity requirements before system deployment and
  
  determine system load handling capacity accurately.


• Use performance testing tools and technologies
  
  to develop effective performance testing and monitoring approaches for different
  
  IT solutions in an integrated environment.


• Have a strong grasp of system performance
  
  matrices in a Service Oriented architecture.


• Conduct system performance testing and
  
  continuous system monitoring to ensure system reliability, capacity and
  
  scalability.


• Execute performance tests, analyze results to
  
  determine root causes of performance issues and recommend corrective
  
  actions; present results to both technical and business teams; device
  
  re-testing approach after systems tuning is effectively implemented and
  
  demonstrate improvements.


• Perform proactive review of applications and
  
  systems performance metrics and alerts to ensure event correlation and
  
  trend analysis are performed on a regular basis.


• Conduct job trainings and provide assistance
  
  to Junior Test Engineers as needed.



• Provide support in project design, development
  
  and deployment activities. This entails working with a team of engineers
  
  to deliver services with optimal uptime, reliability, resilience, and
  
  quality.


• Develop automated test scenarios and setup
  
  environments for performance testing.


• Create and maintain robust, reusable data
  
  driven Load Runner scripts.


• Contribute to overall test team meetings and
  
  make proactive suggestions for process improvement initiatives and
  
  efficiencies for future testing.

Skills, Competencies and Experience
 

The successful candidate will be

required to have the following skills and competencies:

• A Bachelor of Science degree in Computer
  
  Science or related degree from a recognized university.


• 5+ years of programing/ system engineering
  
  experience with 2 years systems functional testing experience and at least
  
  one year of using any performance testing tool for event driven and data
  
  driven approaches.


• Very good knowledge of Windows Operating Systems
  
  and a fair knowledge of Unix and Linux.


• A good understanding of relational databases,
  
  particularly SQL Server and Oracle coupled with experience in relational
  
  data modeling, data management and data processing.


• Excellent understanding of programming languages
  
  and other programming tools particularly Visual Basic, C#, Java, HTML/CSS,
  
  XML and experience in software development (Java, Dot Net development)
  
  knowledge.


• Strong analytical skills with the ability to
  
  collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of
  
  information with attention to detail and accuracy.


• Strong analytical skills, performance reports
  
  analysis and interpretation for technical and business actions.


• Good knowledge of basic architecture
  
  components of systems such as systems integration, communication protocols
  
  and database connections and how they relate to the performance of
  
  applications.

How to Apply

If you fit the profile, then apply today! 

Please forward your application

enclosing detailed Curriculum Vitae to jobs@co-opbank.co.ke indicating the job

reference number SPE/ICTQA/2016 as the subject of your email by 29th April,

2016.

Compliance Analyst

Are you looking for an employer who promotes individual excellence and mutual

respect in a team-driven culture with a key focus on social empowerment? 

The Co-operative Bank of Kenya, “The

Kingdom Bank” is the place for people who want to make the world a better place

and achieve great things.

We are looking to place dynamic, creative, self–driven and experienced

professionals with excellent grasp of technology and automation. 

You have great follow through, highly

analytical and a critical thinker that is solution oriented. 

You have championed ICT best

practices and you are well experienced in ICT quality assurance.

Reporting to the Head – Quality

Assurance, the role holder will be responsible for reviewing and aligning all

ICT processes and undertaking continuous process and system control monitoring

to ensure conformance to stipulated processes while at the same time enforcing

ICT governance and best practice adoption in business analysis, solution

architecture, project management and systems maintenance and support. 

The role will also involve internal

systems and process audit to ensure adherence to defined control and

effectively provide feedback to process and system owners for corrective

measures as well as improvement of all processes in order to maintain

efficiency, reduce cost, improve sustainability and maximize profitability.

The Role
 

Specifically, the successful

jobholder will be required to:

• Review existing processes to create
  
  efficiencies through process optimization, role alignment and tools
  
  adoption while ensuring processes are adhered to, tools are correctly used
  
  and people are skilled and sufficient. Provide guidance for alignment of
  
  ICT with Plan, Build and Run ICT model through clear demarcation of roles
  
  and correct adoption of best practice methodologies to achieve predictable
  
  outputs first time all the time.


• Champion the ICT best practices in the
  
  organization by continually identifying gaps and developing strategies to
  
  close them in either processes, people skills or roles and tools.


• Undertake continuous process improvement by
  
  use of planned and unplanned interactions to identify process readiness
  
  for adjustment while ensuring coverage of all impacted areas.


• Undertake objective, systematic audit of
  
  processes and systems in line with IT Controls audit practices-CISA;
  
  perform a detailed analysis and develop a roadmap to correct
  
  non-conformances.


• Enforce quality control in project work to
  
  prevent scope creep, cost management and effective schedule management to
  
  ensure projects adhere to planned timelines in line with the Project
  
  Execution Plan (PEP) & Project Quality Plan (PQP)


• Review project performance to identify
  
  opportunities for improvement and make effective use of individual and
  
  team capabilities to negotiate responsibility for work outcomes.


• Ensure process visibility and team
  
  accountability by integrating all domain areas across the delivery process
  
  and review adoption of tools for process conformance, actively listen to
  
  staff, colleagues, clients and stakeholders.


• To be the custodian of ICT best practice
  
  alignment, by ensuring the most up to date processes and procedures are
  
  accessible to the whole ICT organization through a centralized storage
  
  with version control, frequent communication and sensitization. Ensure
  
  processes are accessible to all and enforcement mechanisms are clear for
  
  all processes and effective.


• Act as the technology partner for ICT in
  
  identification, implementation and adoption of new technologies for
  
  business solutions as well as process effectiveness.

Desired Skills and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science,
  
  Information Technology and/or other related fields from a recognized
  
  university.


• 4 + years’ experience in a similar role in a
  
  busy work environment preferably a financial services ecosystem.


• Professional Qualification on ICT Audit
  
  Certification – CISA, Six Sigma, CMMI/QMS Certification.


• Excellent communicator with good analytical
  
  and problem solving skills and excellent grasp of technology and
  
  automation.


• Ability to handle complex information with
  
  accuracy and attention to detail.

If you are confident that you fit the

role and person profile and you are keen to add value to your career then

please forward your application enclosing detailed Curriculum Vitae to

jobs@co-opbank.co.ke indicating the job reference number BPA/BCM/2015 by 29th

April, 2016. 

We are an equal opportunity employer.