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Description

In conjunction with the rest of the Business Analysis team and Product Management team, act as a bridge and liaison between the business and technology, translating needs and requirements into work items. Coordinate with relevant Lead Business Analysts and Business Analysts to always stay on top of changes happening across the organization.

The Business Analyst will report directly to the Product Manager.

Key responsibilities

• Gather, understand and analyze requirements (Functional, Non-functional, and Constraint) using meetings, interviews, existing document analysis, workshops, surveys, and other initiatives.
• Analyse and document 'as is' and 'to be' processes and obtain stakeholder/Product owner sign-off.
• Write clear user stories with an appropriate level of acceptance criteria and work with stakeholders to ensure that products and projects meet requirements.
• Engage with Stakeholders and Product Manager to prioritize the requirements for future sprints and development.
• Provide input to product backlog maintenance and lead refinement sessions with the scrum master and scrum team as per the guideline provided in Agile Scrum.
• Continuously communicate and engage with stakeholders and the Product Manager to ensure that all key parties agree that your understanding of requirements meets business objectives.
• Successfully engage in multiple initiatives and projects simultaneously.
• Support testing and release aspects of the requirement.
• Provide second and third line support on the products for which the Business Analyst is responsible, engaging with clients and/or colleagues to understand issues and take necessary steps towards fixing them.
• Collaborate with a larger team to plan and deliver analysis work on projects, ensuring dependencies across multiple workstreams/projects are understood and appropriately communicated.
• Work on any other Adhoc requests as they arise.
• Ability to investigate, analyze and solve complex problems and make disciplined decisions based on available information.
• Ability to identify and analyze options to assess solution feasibility and conduct impact analysis.
• Ensures the alignment of solutions across business and technology.
• Ability to create and maintain documentation related to business analysis approach and plan.
• Understands changing user behaviors and interactions and engages stakeholders in making informed decisions based on needs and available technology.
• Strong analytical skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret complex business needs to accurately identify problems and translate these into requirements.
• Evaluate and establish requirements using relevant techniques such as gap analysis.
• Able to write user stories, acceptance criteria, and create artifacts incl. ability to support written documents with visual models like wireframes, process and flow charts, specifications, use cases, and context Diagrams.
• Capable of identifying non-functional requirements and documenting them in an appropriate form of documentation.
• Able to accommodate requirements and/or design changes and adjust future steps based on feedback from both, stakeholders and the development team.
• Identifies, analyses, manages and monitors relationships with and between stakeholders and appropriately documents these.
• Able to communicate with stakeholders clearly and regularly, clarifying needs and commitments.
• Identifies and explores current processes to create opportunities for business improvement.
• Able to analyze new improvements and prioritize to achieve maximum value.
• Ability to look at new ways of tackling business problems or identify, pinpoint and take advantage of business opportunities to allow organizations to perform more effectively.
• Ability to confidently formulate new features or products from scratch, based on the business and user needs.

Requirements

Core skills/proficiencies

• Business analysis.
• Requirements definition and management.
• Stakeholder relationship management.
• Software development and knowledge.
• Ability to work in an adaptive and flexible environment with faced paced development approach.
• Knowledge of Software and product development lifecycle.
• Business process improvement.
•  Innovation.

Additional skills/proficiencies

• Understanding of Domain Modelling/Data Modelling.
• Experience in using Feature maps to identify user journey.
• Ability to discuss and identify test scenarios and work with the development team to identify test cases.
• Experience in working with web-based applications.
• Experience working with distributed teams.
• Understanding of Product Management.
• Exposure to requirement management tools e.g. TFS/Jira/Azure DevOps.
• Background in SQL knowledge or working in an environment of relational data.

While we work core hours there may be long hours during some phases of the development cycle and/or approaching important deadlines.