Business Analyst

• Act as a key point of contact to the Business Transformation Services, Business Analysis, and Functional Architecture and Solution Architecture groups throughout the implementation
• Interface with business stakeholders to determine key design/process decisions, and contribute to overall delivery plan.
• Deliver assigned tasks complete and on time as designated by the Programme Office to ensure smooth progress of the implementation.
• Contribute and take ownership for various project related tasks / planning activities as the programme evolves

• Knowledge and Practical experience of Project Management methodologies – ability to configure delivery work stream frameworks to progress timelines and delivery milestones
• Demonstrate ability in planning consulting/functional work & ownership of project outcomes

Job description

• Defining business requirements and reporting them back to stakeholders
• Understanding tasks and creating BRDs(Business Requirement Documentation)
• Creating Functional Specification Documents
• Understanding requirements as communicated by business stakeholders
• Understanding stakeholder briefs clearly and propose suitable solutions in consultation with the team
• Build the required project documentation, workflows and FSDs(Functional Specification Document), SRS(Software Requirements Specification)/SOWs(Scope of Work) in collaboration with the stakeholders for the project
• Maintain the SRS documentation during the course of the project
• Understand and manage change requests
• Develop and actively collaborate with project managers and the team on plans and provide weekly status and tracking reporting on the health of the project.
• Provide clear, consistent and timely messaging; both verbal and written; within the team and to technology and business leadership; facilitate effective and timely meetings
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• Qualifications and skills

   

  • Minimum 1 year of experience with projects on NodeJs or similar backend technologies
  • Understanding of Microservices Architecture

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

● Manage a cross-functional process to translate the desired customer experience into a logically  sequenced and optimized product roadmap and  major product releases. Create buy-in for the  product roadmap with internal and external stakeholders. 

● Open to discuss the requirement with the client over a call/ in person meeting. 

● Develop high quality BRD's and effectively prioritize and manage the scope of each product launch to deliver key capabilities on time and on budget. 

● Coordinate with multiple stakeholders , including customer service teams, UX designers, and engineers, to share timelines and deliver the client requirement/ product features within the shared timelines. 

● Daily standup with various teams to track the progress. 

● To oversee the development and improvement of customer service products or platforms within an organization 

● Execute on the existing roadmap and contribute towards shaping the long-term strategy for CS self-service products.

● Creating and maintaining a product roadmap that outlines the vision, goals, and timeline for the development and enhancement of customer service products. 

● Effectively communicating product updates, progress, and milestones to internal stakeholders, executives, and customers, ensuring transparency and alignment throughout the organization. 

We are hiring a business analyst to join our project team. You will work alongside project stakeholders and report directly to Sr. Business analysts. The purpose of the role is to liaison and bridge the gap between the BDM team and technical team to comprehend and analyze customer requirements and translate it to the development teams thereby, ensuring the right requirement detail in the documentation.

To succeed in this role, you should have a natural analytical way of thinking and be able to explain difficult concepts to the team.

Responsibilities

· Elicit requirements, gathering, & documenting.

· Ability to grasp, relate, and quick response to new inquiries.

· Interaction with team members at regular intervals, share knowledge and information

· Clear and concise communication and project management skills.

· Detail out scope documents, functional & non-functional requirements, features, etc. ensuring all stated and unstated customer needs are captured.

· Construct project documents (BRD, FRD) as per the project requirement and develop Flow charts, Use case diagrams, ER diagrams, User stories

· Performing requirements analysis

· Understand SDLC and fit into the Agile environment.

· Co-operating behavioral with the cross-functional team and being able to translate business needs into technical needs.

· Interface and coordinate with BDM team engagement & understand the client’s requirements

Experience in front- & back-end software development and understanding of complex, micro-service-based architectures, custom and CMS environments, and Languages Experience in working with SQL and NoSQL Database Experience in creating architectural artifacts Resolving technical problems as they arise Continually researching current and emerging technologies and proposing changes where needed.

Gather & document requirements using tools like interviews, workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, use cases, etc. Interact with clients to do requirements gathering that will include the usage of various elicitation techniques like Document Analysis, Requirement Workshops, Focused Groups, etc. Conduct business analysis and research to identify key metrics and opportunities for improvements Create various Scope Management Artifacts like WBS, Product Backlogs, Feature Sets, MRDs, PRDs, FRDs, Use Cases, Business Cases, User Stories, etc. Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project by leading the planning of product release plans and setting expectations for the delivery of new functionalities. Analyze the practicality of development requirements of new systems and upgrades to existing systems. Manage Project Scope and Scope Creeps. Raise Change Requests, interact with the Dev team, and help in coming up with Impact analysis and estimates. Run the Capability Gaps analysis and deliver the report against it. Define the Business Case that can further result in Project Charter. Prioritize Requirements independently or in collaboration with Dev Team/Stakeholders using various prioritization techniques. Run a project in SCRUM Mode and write User Stories with every nitty-gritty even to a system level wherever required. Write and manage the scope of Jira and Confluence. Participate in user acceptance testing.

Requirements

2+ years of experience in a similar role for web/mobile projects. Excellent documentation, verbal & written communication, and team collaboration skills. Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills. Outstanding presentation and leadership skills. Experience in iterative development methodologies like Agile. Technical Writing Experience with project management tools

Job Responsibility:

• Work in collaboration with the Design and Technology Team Team, break down epics into features and features into stories to build MVP solutions to enable benefits realization in the shortest possible time frame
• Utilize analysis expertise to consistently elaborate requirements into detailed solutions.
• Facilitate discussions with Technical Leads and Squads to review and estimate features and stories
• You will work alongside the Product Owner to ensure that features and stories are continuously prioritized on the backlog and aligned to business value streams
• Contribute towards sprint planning for the Squad, ensuring that prioritization and dependencies are considered when bringing new work in for development
• To understand business requirement
• Understanding business requirements through user requirements gathering sessions
• to take lead a project from the very beginning till the project is delivered successfully
• Mapping business requirements to Functional solutions and Preparing BRD document
• Creating Functional specifications from which developers can create application solutions.
• Prepare a test Plan with scenarios and Test cases, detailing the test steps. Identify and gather data from various sources. Execute test cases and record result
• Take ownership of product delivery timelines and milestones typical tasks to involve analysis of business requirement requests, liaising with the Development Team and Management to complete development, support of UAT
• Analyze business problems and provide solutions.
• Participate with peers and represent the business on project teams
• Should be able to communicate the business idea and thought process clearly

Required Candidate profile:

• Great Problem-solving skills.
• Possess the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and deadlines
• Be used to working and communicating as part of a high-performing agile Team
• Ability to translate customer opportunities and pain points into detailed Features and User Stories that our Developer and Quality Assurance Engineers can understand and deliver
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Knowledge of AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
• Familiarity with the latest technology like Blockchain is a plus.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.

1. To ANALYZE Business Requirements end-to-end & Documenting Requirements
2. Write Good User Stories (Preferably using INVEST techniques)
3. Specify acceptance criteria for features and user stories to ensure delivery of requirements that meet or exceed the business needs 
4. Create wireframe prototypes, Mockups and documenting them using Visio or similar tools
5. Document requirements by creating use cases, functional and requirement specifications documents
6. Collaborate with internal teams to ensure proper documentation of the product capabilities
7. Own the Product backlog, elaborating and prioritizing user stories to be included in the backlog 
8. Presenting the product capabilities, gathering requirements and identifying gaps 
9. Interface with clients and partners to understand business environments, current and future requirements; participate as a solutions expert
10. Roadmap prioritization, conceptualize new product features, and assist with competitive positioning

About Us: We are a group of techies, data analysts, digital marketers, and operations professionals who have come together to provide next-generation e-commerce solutions. We help brands & private labels to grow their businesses on platforms such as Amazon and their own website. We love brainstorming ideas on marketing businesses through digital media and utilize technology to execute them further to achieve the desired goals.

Current Offerings of Technology Department:

1. Creating scalable and conversion-friendly eCommerce web platforms using headless integration of Magento and ReactJS
2. Building PWAs platforms to provide a better user experience
3. Building distributor B2B portals
4. Migrating legacy systems to boost conversion and effectiveness preserving their orders, customers, product data and SEO benefits

Key Responsibilities:

1. Will be responsible for the scope management for the multiple projects undertaken
2. Work directly with clients and consultants to gather requirements to understand their goals and work with the internal team to develop the best solution
3. Liaise with external and internal teams to act as the primary technical contact for queries related to the project
4. Work with development teams to get them in sync with client requirements
5.  Improve processes & methodologies to achieve faster and better delivery of project
6. Work on internal projects (product and business intelligence projects) to achieve the goal of the respective team
7. Write user stories, document the product requirements, workflows & test criteria
8.  Actively work with Sales team on pre-sales proposal activities & high-level solutioning
9.  Take initiatives to set up processes in the company and be actively involved in hiring and building the future team
10. Be the custodian of functional & non-functional requirements of the projects undertaken
11. Work with Product Owner to define, prioritize requirements and accurately maintain requirements traceability.

Skills You Should Have:

1.  Excellent communicator and relationship builder: A track record of collaborating with a variety of cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
2. Dynamic: Strong decision-making and prioritization ability. Should be comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. Have attention to detail, and are comfortable learning new technologies and systems
3. Team player: Knack for influencing without being authoritative. Pitch in wherever the team needs help, from writing blog posts to supporting customers
4. Sense of data: Ability to turn insights into actionable growth initiatives
5. Accountability: High sense of ownership and relentlessness to deliver projects with
6. High business impact: You value integrity and derive great personal joy from efficient teamwork
7. Problem-solving: Good in problem-solving and ability to bring in new ideas and drive project agenda from scratch
8. Tools: Experience with tools for capturing and maintaining requirements & mockups/sketches is ideal. i.e. Jira, Zoho
9. Consulting approach: Ability to do feasibility study and high-level solutioning for clients
10. Soft skills: Good English communication and proactive, collaborative mindset to maintain continuous communication with the clients for project updates and in turn build trust and effective working relationships.

Requirements:

1. Experience with all stages of the SDLC, conceptualization to implementation.
2. Exposure to Agile methodologies (Scrum)
3. Experience working at an agile software company/startup is a bonus
4. Strong project instincts; you have a strong intuition about what users want and understand their business

Why should you consider joining Growisto?

1. It will be a challenging role and you will get complete ownership to solve challenging problems. If you like challenges and think from a first principle basis, you should definitely take this up
2. If you have the aspiration to grow and develop as a leader in parallel to a multifold growth rate of a start-up then you should join us
3. If we have to choose between culture/team and profits, our obvious choice is culture. If your thought process and personality resonate with our cultural values, then you should join us

Why should you not consider joining Growisto?

1. If the role description does not excite you, then you should not join us
2. We are a startup and things will move fast. If you are not comfortable in a fast-paced environment, then you should not join us