Business Analyst (5-7 yrs)

Job Summary

This role is crucial for bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions.

You will be responsible for understanding, documenting, and communicating business requirements, collaborating with technical teams, and ensuring that delivered solutions meet the defined objectives.

This position requires a strong understanding of IT trends, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

- Requirements Elicitation and Documentation: Conduct meetings and workshops with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements and existing processes.

- Create detailed Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), process maps (e.g., flowcharts, swimlane diagrams), and use cases.

- Solution Design Collaboration: Work closely with the solution design team to develop Business and Functional Solution Design Documents.

- This includes contributing to the creation of wireframes, prototypes, and other visual representations of the proposed solution.

- Process Improvement: Analyze current workflows and business processes to identify areas for improvement.

- Develop and propose optimized solutions, considering both technical feasibility and business impact.

- Assist in the implementation of these solutions.

- Feasibility Analysis: Conduct feasibility studies to evaluate the viability and potential return on investment (ROI) of proposed solutions.

- This includes assessing technical feasibility, cost-benefit analysis, and risk assessment.

- Change Management: Coordinate with developers and stakeholders to track and manage change requests throughout the project lifecycle.

- Ensure that changes are properly documented, assessed, and implemented.

- User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Partner with the business team to plan and execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

- Develop test plans, test cases, and facilitate the testing process.

- Bug Tracking and Reporting: Systematically document and report bugs identified during testing.

- Work with developers to ensure that bugs are resolved and retested.

- Project Monitoring and Reporting: Monitor project progress and provide regular updates to business stakeholders through timely meetings, presentations, and reports.

- Communicate project status, risks, and issues effectively.

- Communication and Collaboration: Proactively communicate roadblocks, potential risks, and escalate issues as necessary to ensure project success.

- Foster strong relationships with stakeholders across different teams.

- Technology Awareness: Maintain a strong understanding of the latest technologies and IT trends to effectively contribute to solution design and process improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

- 4+ years of proven experience as a Business Analyst in the IT industry.

- Strong knowledge of the latest technologies and IT trends.

- Demonstrated experience in requirements elicitation, documentation, and process mapping.

- Proficiency in creating BRDs, functional specifications, and use cases.

- Experience with wireframing and prototyping tools is a plus.

- Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills.

- Strong problem-solving abilities.

- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal, including proficiency in creating presentations and documentation.

- Expertise in planning and project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall).

- Experience with User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and bug tracking.

- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

- Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills