Technical Business Analyst

Level                    : Senior Consultant

Location             : Chennai

Experience         : 9 to 15 years

• Must be a seasoned IT Business Analyst
• Must have good experience in Payments domain
• Good Communication Skills
• Well versed with Agile and Scrum
• In depth understanding of agile methodologies

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

- 3+ years of Business Analyst experience preferably in Saas, customer experience or customer service domain.

- High attention to details and have proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously

- Experience with hands-on day-to-day problem solving, implementing quick and effective action plans to meet short term priorities.

- 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.

• 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.

• 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 (Mention tools we are using or required )

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

(Job Code: BNSAN1)

No of Positions: 2

Purpose of Position:

Requirements management is one of the core skills of business analysts. Developing technical solutions to business problems, or to advance a company’s sales efforts, begins with defining, analyzing and documenting requirements. Managing requirements at the project level can help fulfill business needs. Skilled business analysts also use requirements to drive the design or review of test cases, process change requests, and manage a project’s scope, acceptance, installation and deployment

Accountability:

The Business Analyst is directly accountable to the VP of Operations. The Business Analyst will undergo a yearly performance appraisal.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Lead Role:

• Assisting with the business case

• Planning and monitoring

• Eliciting requirements

• Requirements organization

• Translating and simplifying requirements

• Requirements management and communication

• Requirements analysis

1. Responsibilities:

• Implementing advanced strategies for gathering, reviewing and analyzing data requirements

• Prioritising requirements and create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups

• Mastering strategic business process modelling, traceability and quality management techniques

• Applying best practices for effective communication and problem-solving

Qualifications and Skills:

Becoming a successful business analyst takes core business skills and specialized knowledge that will advance a firm’s objectives, and contribute to its remaining competitiveness in a complex economy. Business analysts are typically required to assess and validate their activities and to determine if a solution has fulfilled the requirements and achieve the business benefits in areas of workflow & customer relationship management.

1. Written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills

1. Understanding of systems engineering concepts

1. The ability to conduct cost/benefit analysis

1. Business case development

1. Modeling techniques and methods

1. Leadership Skills

1. Excellent math and organizational skills

1. Professional, courteous and positive manner

1. Ability to set priorities and manage multiple task functions simultaneously