Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Number of vacancies: 1
Closing Date: 9 Oct 2022
Job description
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| Overview of position | Our client is a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights & building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities & stateless people. Every year, millions of men, women & children are forced to flee their homes to escape conflict & persecution. Our clients need for software & information system support continues to grow, as does the need to continuously improve & expand information & communications systems & infrastructure across the organization. Through the pilot project our client in Ethiopia is seeking to test a particular biometric authentication during distribution processes using Mastercard’s Inclusive Identity (IID) technology. The pilot project in Ethiopia, in partnership with Mastercard, intends to test a biometric authentication modality during distribution processes using Mastercard’s IID. Mastercard’s IID solution enables the population of concern to our client (in the frame of this pilot specifically refugees) to verify their identity & to confirm receipt of their entitlements with their biometrics, by showing the authenticating party their face along with their identity credential (in the frame of this pilot specifically their smart card identity document) containing pre captured, tokenized, digital biometric reference data for offline matching on a smartphone or tablet operated by our client / partner staff. Our clients existing solutions authenticate biometrically against non tokenized biometric data held on a server (locally or over the internet) rather than authenticating against tokenized biometric data held on a credential owned by the refugee. The matching process under Mastercard’s IID technology works on commercially available mobile devices (smartphones, tablets), including the Android smartphones already available in the operation in Ethiopia, which is currently using them for the Global Distribution Tool (GDT). To prevent abuse of or unauthorized access to the biometric reference data embedded in refugee identity documents, prior saving, Mastercard’s IID application will use a one way data transformation function to convert the biometric template to an irreversible identity token, which then will be digitally signed. The pilot project has the following objectives:
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| Role objectives | The Ethiopia operation requires an experienced Business Analyst / Test Lead to lead analysis as well as testing as part of the Mastercard’s IID project. The role of the Business Analyst is to take ownership of working with business & field stakeholders to elicit business requirements as part of the Mastercard IID project. The main purpose of the role is the capture & documentation of high level & detailed requirements from both a business perspective & a technical viewpoint & the production of robust functional designs & business processes to support custom development of a new Android application. The role of the Test Lead is to effectively lead the testing team. The Test Lead must manage & implement or maintain an effective testing process. That involves creating a test infrastructure that supports robust communication & a cost effective testing framework, develop a test strategy for the project, ensure that the test strategy is in place & coordinate with the developer, business owners & test team & create the test plans & test case & assign the test cases to the testers. Both (in sequence consecutive) roles will be filled by the recruited staff. The initial requirement for the Business Analyst / Test Lead is to provide their expertise during the initiation & planning phases of the project with a view of future integration into PRIMES in sight, for further project phases.
The key responsibilities of the Business Analyst role include:
The key responsibilities of the Test Lead role include:
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| Project reporting | The Business Analyst / Test Lead will report weekly against assigned deliverables & progress with the Senior Business Analyst in GDS, DIRS, under the overall direction of the Project Manager in Ethiopia. It is expected that the s / he will work closely with key staff & partner stakeholders such as the Solution Engineer, the Ethiopia Country Office & Sub Office, Mastercard & UNECA as well as Reginal Bureau & HQ counterparts. In addition, s / he will work with other project steering committees, stakeholders, Workstream Leads, Solution Architects, external managed service providers & suppliers to ensure business requirements are met. |
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| Team management | This role has no team management responsibility. |
| Further information | Qualified female candidates are encouraged to apply for this role. |