Business Analyst

Job Description

Role & responsibilities 1. Requirement Gathering and Analysis: Identify Stakeholders: Based on guidance from Senior BA or PM, determine key stakeholders and understand their needs. Elicit Requirements: Use techniques like interviews, surveys, and workshops to gather requirements. Analyze Requirements: Break down and analyze requirements to ensure they are clear, complete, and feasible. 2. Liaison: Acts as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure clear communication and understanding of the requirements. Ensuring the technical solutions align with business goals. 3. Facilitator: Conduct meetings, workshops, and interviews to gather requirements and facilitate discussions among stakeholders. 4. Documentation: Create Requirement Documents: Document the gathered requirements in formats based on the project methodology as appropriate, such as Product backlog as User stories/Features/Epics with acceptance criteria or BRDs (Business Requirement Documents) and FRDs (Functional Requirement Documents). Work with senior BA and project team to establish the definition of ready as entry criteria for the development to start. Maintain Traceability: Ensure that all requirements are traceable throughout the project lifecycle. 5. Solution Evaluation and Validation: Evaluate Solutions: Assess proposed solutions to ensure they meet business needs and requirements. Validate Implementations: Work with QA teams to validate that the implemented solutions meet the specified requirements. 6. Project Management Support: Assist in Planning: Assist senior BA in project planning, including defining scope, timelines, and resources. Monitor Progress: Follow through project progress and ensure that requirements are being met. 7. Stakeholder Communication: Present Findings: Communicate findings and recommendations to stakeholders through presentations and reports. Facilitate Decision-Making: Assist stakeholders make informed decisions by providing clear and concise information 8. Continuous Improvement: Identify Opportunities: Seek opportunities to improve business analysis processes and systems. Implement Changes: Work with senior BA & teams to implement changes and measure its impact. 9. Metrics: Assist senior BA to measure the performance and success of projects pertaining to BA. Capturing requirements quality through requirement defects, clarity and completeness of requirements and number of change requests. Conduct surveys and capture feedback on users & stakeholder satisfaction. Periodically report the relevant metrics to Senior BA. 10. Risks: Identify the risks involved in the business analysis process early, in terms of incomplete/gaps in requirements, scope creek, stakeholder engagement and seek guidance from senior BA to mitigate them. 11. Team Collaboration: Work closely with developers, testers, and stakeholders to ensure seamless requirement gathering and implementation. 12. Continuous Improvement & Feedback: Actively participate in retrospectives and ensure the action items are implemented and consistent. Additional Responsibilities: 1. Learning & Knowledge sharing and mentoring junior resources. 2. Actively participate in training activity as directed by Senior BA. 3. Actively participate and contribute to Organizational Goals. 4. Actively participate and contribute to Internal Audits. Preferred candidate profile 5 to 8 years of experience in the role of Business Analyst. 1. Communication: Active listening and effective communication to convey ideas, requirements, and feedback clearly to stakeholders, team members, and clients verbally and non-verbally. 2. Analytical skills: That include creative and conceptual thinking, decision-making, design thinking, numeracy, problem-solving, research skills, resourcefulness and systems thinking. 3. Critical Thinking: Assess the situations, identify problems, and develop logical solutions to make an informed decision. 4. Problem-solving: To resolve complex issues that require innovative and practical solutions. 5. Attention to Detail: Ensure accuracy in requirements and documentation to avoid costly errors and misunderstandings. 6. Teamwork: Collaborate effectively with various teams and departments within/external to the organization for successful implementation of projects Certification: Good to have but not mandatory, any Business Analyst certification from IIBA or PMI. Preferred to have exposure working in an Agile environment using any of the mythologies and estimation techniques in Agile