Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Pune

This role is of a Business Analyst in the Cards Domain. The candidate will be working within a Scrum team as a Business Analyst and will be required to liaison with Business Stakeholders to elicit, analyse, communicate and validate features of a new functionality. The candidate will be someone who can serve as a Subject Matter Expert with good hold on business and functional domain knowledge.

What will you be doing?

• • Provide strong Business Analysis expertise in an agile frame work environment
  • Work as a liaison among project stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate features for new functionality. Serves as the SME for business and functional domain knowledge; working closely with the Product Owner
  • Senior Stakeholder Management
  • Excellent Knowledge of industry/market trends in the Credit Card/Payments domain
  • Good understanding of Customer Journeys in the Credit Card domain
  • Supports the Project Manager as well as Technical Lead in the inception, epic creation, feature creation as well as Story writing to ensure clear scope and acceptance criteria in line with Agile delivery methodology
  • Create, groom and maintain the project feature and story backlog in addition to any changes to those requirements
  • Participates in joint design sessions to groom and document features and stories
  • Create feature and story backlogs that are clear and straightforward.
  • Assists the Tech Leads with flow diagrams, tables, mock-ups and other methods to ensure features and stories are presented without ambiguity when designing the solution.
  • Analyzing requirements; constructing workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications.
  • Improves systems by studying current practices
  • Recommends controls by identifying problems; writing improved procedures.
  • Maintains system protocols by writing and updating procedures.
  • Knowledge transfer as reference for users by writing and maintaining user documentation
  • Work with Product Owner to decompose features into stories
  • Identify dependencies across applications to support feature decomposition and story definition
  • Adhere to Agile methodology, ensure requirements documentation complies with Agile and audit standards.
  • Adhere to all Barclays, Barclaycard, Barclaycard US and Technology standards, policies and governance practices.
  • Contributes to and use best practices and standards including BCUS Values & Behaviours.

What we're looking for:

• Excellent written and oral communication
• Extensive experience in financial services or highly regulated industry
• 6+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Systems Analyst or other similar role and out of which at least 2 years in Credit Card /Payments domain
• Ability to understand, analyze & document complex processes, features and stories
• Past development experience in Java will be strongly preferred
• Self-driven and proactive. Willing to work late-hours to ensure more overlap with US counterpart for ensuring healthy backlog
• Knowledge of software design
• Knowledge of software development processes
• Knowledge of software maintenance processes
• Excellent organizational, problem solving and analytical abilities
• Familiarity with Scrum techniques and Agile methodology
• Working in distributed Agile environment
• Own the e2e Traceability of Requirements
• Worked on Tools that are used for Capturing Requirements in Agile(Jira, Rally etc)
• Should have the skills to derive multiple User Stories from Epics to ensure that all scenarios are covered
• Ability to demonstrate "What-not-How" approach in whilst communicating objectives and purpose
• Ability to align with other roles in the team seamlessly
• Ability to understand the requirements and communicate /disseminate the same effectively to multiple stakeholders
• Ability to get involved in the detail whilst maintaining the big picture
• Comfortable in decomposing large pieces of work into smaller chunks (by creating Epics/User Stories) that is understood by the team
• Comfortable in working in a highly collaborative working environment with remote Product Owner and Business team
• Ensures that all requirements support the delivery of business value by keeping customer focus, fulfills goals and objectives of the Program
• Facilitate scope prioritization with the Product Owner/s and Business and ability to communicate rationale
• Ability to contribute to estimation in Agile World
• Responsible for keeping the requirements backlog up-to-date
• Performs just-enough analysis to enable development work, and to reduce rework and overhead ( Work hand in hand with the Dev/ QA teams to ensure that the Sprint targets are met)
• Synthesizes complex sets of information to provide clarity and understanding to the Dev/QA team
• Understands a problem enough to determine cause and provide appropriate solutions
• Understands and defines requirements from a business and customer/user perspective
• Understands how to implement the delivery of a product or an application
• Understands the big picture and works with the team to understand concepts

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Very good understanding on technology architecture and design patterns
• Prior development experience preferably in Java / J2EE / Javascript
• Good experience in estimation and planning

Where will you be working?

• Pune

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