Business Analyst - Agile

SUMMARY:
A leader in the Insurance industry is looking for a Business analyst with 4- 5 years’ experience. The candidate must be innovative and a problem solver

POSITION INFO:

Description:

The Business Analyst is responsible for working as a liaison among project stakeholders to understand business structure, policies and processes and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. Responsible for eliciting the needs of stakeholders not simply their expressed desires, working with the business to prioritize those needs, ensuring alignment to business objectives. The Business Analyst is also responsible for clearly documenting and expressing functional, non-functional and transition requirements/user stories to IT stakeholders such as systems analysts, developers and quality assurance analysts to ensure the right solution is built to meet business needs.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree, ideally in Business, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or relevant Business field preferred or equivalent combination of education/experience.
• MBA preferred
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt preferred
• Certified Agile Business Analyst certified preferred

Skills and Requirements

• Elicits, Analyses and Documents Requirements (i.e., user stories, use cases, business, user, functional, non-functional, transition)
• Works with business stakeholders to gather functional requirements
• Liaison between business and IT stakeholders, meeting with System Analysts, Quality Assurance Analysts, Project Managers and other resources needed to ensure requirements are met
• Work with the Product Owners to prioritise delivery
• Works with business stakeholders in leading User Acceptance Testing, following up on testing progress and defect resolution
• Identifies and assesses risks to the success of the project. Agrees the project approach with stakeholders, and prepares realistic plans (including quality, risk and communications plans) and tracking activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate.
• Assists in the analysis of stakeholder objectives, and the underlying issues arising from
• investigations into business requirements and problems and identifying potential benefits and available options for consideration.
• Produces specific business cases and scenarios and defines and documents system acceptance criteria.
• Defines routine, integrated processes and documents using basic formal process charting techniques.
• Works on formal requirements gathering and documentation. Assists in the collection of functional and technical requirements and in the development of design documents.
• Works on projects using available frameworks and tools and establishes plans for projects with on-time and on-budget project goals.
• Maintains the status of projects and provides guidance to the work of junior team members. Works across teams to achieve group goals.
• Test coverage analysis, risk prioritisation, analysis of defect trends, and identification of risks associated with issues identified in the project.
• Prepares project scope. Provides inputs to test strategy and approach.

Preparation of training material for the team and vertical practice

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