Business Analyst

Title : Business Analyst

Locations: Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, and Delhi (Remote).

Job Type: Fulltime

Business Analysts conduct market analyses, analyzing both product lines and the overall profitability of the business. In addition, they develop and monitor data quality metrics and ensure business data and reporting needs are met. Strong technology, analytical and communication skills are must-have traits

Essential Responsibilities:

• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
• Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.
• Hands on Insurance domain experience – added advantage
• Staying up to date on the latest process and IT advancements to automate and modernize systems.
• Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings.
• Understand the business requirements and documenting and translating into features / user stories.
• Ensure the system design is perfect as per the needs of the customer. Participating in functionality testing and user acceptance testing of the new features.
• Developing business artifacts in relate to the client business and conducting formal training sessions for the team.
• Acting as a coach on assigned projects and assignments; and providing business related direction and clarification to the developers and other project stakeholders.
• Develop a team culture where everyone thinks from end user perspective.
• Performing requirements analysis.
• Documenting and communicating the results of your efforts.
• Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports.
• Working closely with clients, technicians, and managerial staff.
• Providing leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.
• Allocating resources and maintaining cost efficiency.
• Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements.
• Performing user acceptance testing.
• Managing projects, developing project plans, and monitoring performance.
• Updating, implementing, and maintaining procedures.
• Prioritizing initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
• Serving as a liaison between stakeholders and users.
• Managing competing resources and priorities.
• Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.

Requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree in business or related field or an MBA.
• Certification of Capability in Business Analysis™ (CCBA®) or PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)®
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in business analysis or a related field.
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
• Advanced technical skills.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Fundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations.

• Analytical skills, problem-solving skills, Strong communication and domain knowledge.
• Sound Knowledge in HTML,CSS, Microsoft. Net framework, Javascript, PHP, React and SQL.
• Able to create detail business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for the business.
• Experience in Agile scrum methodologies creating user stories and estimating story points for each stories.
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Working experience with any wireframe tools (Sketch ,Adobe, UXPin, Mockplus, JustInMind etc)
• Ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
• Masters/Degree with a background in business, Engineering and IT with minimum 5 years working experience as business Analyst.

• Help the product owner groom the product backlog by considering purpose, prioritizing the stories,
• organizing the stories, splitting epics into user stories, and ensuring a complete description of the
• solution.
• Studies the software application domain, prepares software requirements, and specification
• (Software Requirements Specification) documents.
• Works with the stakeholders to analyze and document business processes for the system to be
• developed
• Perform actual analysis on requirements to consider all scenarios/exceptions that may occur
• Determine functional requirements and features and prepare a wireframe for user interface screen
• Advise the product owner and coach the team, as well as other business analysis considerations
• Communicates with both the developers and stakeholders in such a manner until the project ends.
• Co-facilitate trainings/workshops client-side.

• 1. Take Prospects from intial contact phase to qualified phase
• 2. Market research and competition analysis
• 3. Respond quickly to assigned qualified leads.
• 5. Ability to understand technical solutions sales cycle and articulate the same to CIO/ Buyer over Call/ Meeting.
• 6. Go getter and very strong interpersonal skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• BA Workstream: Ability to understand the objectives and goals of the project, and to contribute to the development of the project plan through identifying BA scope of work, advocating approach, and methodologies.
• Create BA Work Packages: Ability to breakdown the BA Scope of Work into manageable work packages to support the overall delivery of the plan.
• Scope and document requirements: Ability to understand, capture, and model functional, non-functional (operational), and interface requirements for users of a system.
• Designing and enhancing Business Processes: Ability to create maps (or models) of workflows, services design, and customer journeys for the business, organization, system, or software. Process maps are created by eliciting new requirements as well as identifying existing functionalities and processes in an organization. Documenting behavior models using use cases, user experience design, storyboards, user profiles, and user stories.
• Analysis & estimation of solution options: Ability to undertake quality initiatives and measure them with the right metrics. Be able to develop meaningful key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Training &Communications: Work with learning and comms team to provide inputs on new functionality, enhancements, process changes, etc. to drive adoption
• Digital Capability: Having had experience in, or capability to, enable customer experiences through the use of digital technologies through placing the customer at the center of everything we do.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related fields
• Minimum 4+ years of work experience as a BA required in Software development projects
• Industry certification in Business Analysis like CBAP, Agile business analysis, etc.
• Prior experience or a background in software development.
• High attention to detail and work ethics which encourages accuracy
• Involvement in digital transformation or multi-system integration project
• Strong written and oral communication skills with IELTS ( or any other equivalent English proficiency score of 7 or above)
• High level of computer user ability, including Ms Word, Ms Visio, Ms Excel, Ms Power Point, Outlook
• Agile qualification and experience
• Must have strong interpersonal skills and desire to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Must have the ability to work autonomously, be self-motivated, and a strong team player
• Great can-do flexible attitude that thrives in a collaborative makes it happen environment. Attitude is everything!

0 - 2  years of experience in business analysis and product development of mobile or web applications 
• Working with the stakeholders to formulate and define the Product Vision and Roadmap
• Developing requirements and use cases for business process flows
• Facilitating the definition of project scope, goals, and deliverables
• Managing the Product Backlog and its refinement
• Converting the requirements to Epics and user stories along with specifying the acceptance criteria
• Managing the prioritization of work in Product Backlog based on Product Roadmap
• Coordinating with cross-functional development team to impart requirement understanding including collaboration with the QA team on test cases
• Engaging with the stakeholders on project progress, required reports and value delivery

What you need to have:

• Proven experience in augmenting customer experience and ratings at a company
• Ability to work independently.
• Prior experience or deep understanding of Omni-channel business strategies.
• Strong Understanding/ keen interest in technology/ automation.
• Strong interpersonal Skills
• Proven Experience in managing teams.
• Excellent Written and Spoken Communication Skills
• Hands on experience in managing teams and getting results.
• Should have worked on integrating a CRM for a company.
• Strong analytical abilities and an empirical thought process.
• Ability and readiness to work and thrive in an ambiguous and constantly changing environment.
• Keen interest and prior experience in building systems and processes from the ground up.
• Deep understanding of business and business metrics
• Ability to stretch long hours.
• Proactive approach to business problems.
• Candidates with prior marketing experience are preferred.
• Excellent problem identification and solving abilities.
• Inquisitive bent of mind.
• Strategic thinking and the ability to make holistic and well-grounded in reality business plans.
• Should exhibit strong leadership abilities.
• Should understand Web Technologies.
• Tier 1 B-Schools with 6 to 8 years’ experience.
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