Lead I - Business Analyst

Job Title: Senior Business Analyst

Experience: 6+ Years
Location: Trivandrum / Kochi / Bangalore
Work Mode: Hybrid (3 days from office)
Work Timings: 5 PM to 2 AM IST (to align with US business teams)

Job Description:

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Business Analyst with a strong background in requirement gathering, stakeholder management, and technical collaboration. The candidate must be comfortable working closely with US-based clients and managing end-to-end business analysis and solution design.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Elicit, analyze, and document clear, concise, and detailed business requirements through interaction with business stakeholders.

• Convert project scope into detailed user stories, wireframes, prototypes, and process flows to support requirement clarification and approvals.

• Collaborate with IT development teams to ensure proper understanding and implementation of requirements.

• Coordinate with Quality Assurance teams to define and execute project testing strategies and plans.

• Ensure business requirements traceability to technical requirements and validate system designs.

• Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) efforts and ensure solutions meet business expectations.

• Engage with clients and vendors to manage development, communication, and execution activities effectively.

• Analyze data using SQL and extract insights to define or support business rules and technical solutions.

• Document all business rules and technical mappings using tools like JIRA and Confluence.

Mandatory Skills:

• Minimum 6 years of IT experience with 4+ years in business analysis and requirement gathering.

• Minimum 5 years of experience working directly with development teams.

• Strong experience in writing SQL queries and data analysis.

• Expertise in using JIRA, Confluence, and Agile methodologies.

• Strong communication, consulting, and interpersonal skills with senior stakeholder engagement.

• Proven experience in managing client/vendor relationships and leading cross-functional teams.

• Experience in leading UAT planning and execution.

• Comfortable working in a US time zone (5 PM – 2 AM IST).

Good to Have Skills:

• Exposure to cloud database technologies like Snowflake, Redshift, Oracle.

• Working knowledge of AWS or similar cloud platforms.

• Experience applying Design Thinking principles.

• Ability to develop and validate hypotheses to support business insights.

• Experience in delivering under tight deadlines in hybrid working models.

Business Analysis,Requirement Gathering,Sql