Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst
Bangalore, Karnataka, India

We invent the new to help the world move forward. Combining powerful analytics and deeper insights with bigger ideas and innovative solutions, we free up our clients’ potential, thereby fulfilling our own. Take it seriously. Make it fun. Know it matters. Senior Business Analysts bridge the gap between business and IT by being able to communicate effectively with all stakeholders. The Senior Business Analyst will be responsible for supporting an application or multiple applications within a Delivery Team (or at times a Solution Delivery Center) and her/his core responsibilities include eliciting and documenting both business, functional and non-functional requirements, supporting quality assurance testing and UAT, and triaging incoming issues, defects, and enhancement requests. Senior Business Analysts will also provide senior level support of projects that impact the application(s) s/he supports.

What you’ll be DOING

What will your essential responsibilities include?

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Validate the overall IT solution is aligned with business requirements, walk through requirements with the business and then development & test teams to ensure understanding.

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Support development and system test queries, facilitate user acceptance testing, and provide support for issues/changes in production.

Collaborate with Transformation & Change Delivery resources to ensure requirements and solution support the overall business process.

Help identify how requirements can help make the business process more efficient.

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You will report to Senior Business Analyst.

What you will BRING

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Must possess excellent interpersonal skills, effective communication skills (written and verbal), and the ability to present information in an influencing manner at leadership level.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to build trusting relationships with the business.
• Relevant years of proven experience of business /systems analysis within the P&C Insurance domain.
• Preference given to an understanding of how Delegated Authority business works in the Lloyd’s market, and in particular experience of the Watertrace BDX / iQRoute systems.
• Preference for experience of projects aimed at streamlining the flow of data between different systems / data analysis required to support the development of API’s between systems / data migration projects.
• Ability to extract and document business requirements, to support the delivery of a technical solution. This must include the ability to plan for and facilitate business requirements workshops.
• Must have familiarity with various Analyst techniques e.g. Requirements Catalogue/ Business Process Modelling / Use Cases / Epics & User Stories.
• Significant experience of supporting all phases of the software development life cycle.
• Experience with different SDLC methodologies, both Waterfall and Agile Scrum.

Desired Skills and Abilities:

• Proven planning and organization skills, with an ability to work self-directedly, planning their analysis work, prioritizing workload, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales.
• Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures, etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.