Lead Business Analyst

Job Description

1. Experience in playing the role of a mature Lead BA who can articulate (written and verbal), negotiate, and finalize product requirements with client business stakeholders

2. Good Detailing & Analytics skills with a natural interest in problem-solving

3. Hands on Expertise in producing hands-on deliverables like business process flows, requirement specifications/user stories, business scenarios.

4. Experience in working with Agile teams in a Product Owner role taking a lead role in requirement grooming, sprint planning, and working with software product dev team

5. Capability to plan, track, and monitor the work for a group of product analysis/BAs and groom them to develop the product requirements.

6. Experience in working with UI/UX/Visual design to guide the products user interface process. 7. Adequate technical exposure to understand modern web/mobile application development along with ability to visualize and understand data structures

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Analysis Skills Should be able to analyze business problems faced by the client and suggest solutions.

2. Ability to go into details and extract functional details:

a. Understand business objectives by eliciting and understanding user needs

b. Capability to articulate the product requirements (written and verbal) and present them This may involve preparing business flow diagrams, mind maps, and other diagrams to convey ideas to clients, designing wireframes, writing user stories, acceptance criteria and business scenarios.

3. Excellent communication skills – articulate (written and verbal), negotiate and finalize product business requirements with client stakeholders.

4. Documentation Skill:

a. Should be an expert in documenting the requirements gathered from the client in a detailed manner.

b. Knowledge in preparing Functional and System Requirement Specification documentation in the form of user stories and acceptance criteria. Familiarity with tools like JIRA/Azure DevOps/AHA etc.

c. Knowledge in creating wireframes using prototyping or wireframing tools.

d. Knowledge in preparing business scenarios based on the requirement.

e. Knowledge in preparing business process flowcharts using tools.

5. Product Management Skills – Should have experience in managing product or project requirements. Should be able to define the product objectives, maintain product backlog, and product feature prioritization.

6. Ability to visualize the User Interface of features, suggest the challenges in usability, and provide suggestions to the UI/UX team.

7. Pre-sales Skills - Work with the marketing team to create project case studies, blogs etc.

8. Work with Software Development, Quality Control / Testing, and UI design teams during product development sprints

9. Testing Skills – Capability to test the products during the development stage and capability to manage User Acceptance Testing and take a system live.

10. Experience in developing user documentation, providing business support, and training users. Should have good presentation skills.

11. Willingness to Travel to client sites for short – medium duration (1 week to 2months)