Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Requirements Elicitation & Analysis: Liaise with onshore IT teams and business users to define detailed functional specifications. Document data flows, data dictionaries, and data models.
• Test Strategy & Execution: Create and execute comprehensive test strategies, defining entry/exit criteria. Perform System Integration Testing (SIT) before UAT. Identify and prepare required test data. Report test status to stakeholders, escalating risks and issues to the project manager.
• Production Support: Provide Level 2/3 support for production incidents.
• Solution Design & Development: Analyze and transform business requirements into technical solutions, collaborating closely with development teams.
• Documentation: Prepare, maintain, and communicate functional documentation including detailed functional specifications, use cases, test strategy, and test cases.
• Qualification & Testing: Plan, prepare, and execute the qualification strategy and tests of developed solutions, ensuring timely delivery of fully tested products ready for production deployment.
• UAT Support: Follow up and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Project Management Support: Support project planning, schedules, and milestones. Report status, risks, and issues to stakeholders.
• Process Improvement: Identify and determine enhancements to improve business processes and mitigate risks.

Qualifications and Profile:

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience as an IT Business Analyst supporting the development of complex information systems within major organizations, ideally in a banking environment.
• Mandatory:
  • Knowledge of project cycle methodologies (Agile preferred) and software development/testing lifecycles.
  • Experience managing small to medium-sized projects.
  • Strong ability to interpret business needs and translate them into requirements.
  • Experience writing test documents and performing functional tests.
  • Ability to anticipate and mitigate risks.

Other Professional Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, proactive work style, excellent communication (written and verbal) and organizational skills, ability to multi-task and work independently, and a collaborative team player mindset with respect for cultural diversity.