Business Analyst

A business analyst must have good communication skills and experience in direct customer interaction. Exceptional verbal and written communication skills would be necessary as the candidate would be needed to understand customer requirements thoroughly.

Responsibilities

• Interact with clients/stakeholders and understand the requirements of the project thoroughly.
• Prepare and review the Requirement Analysis and Functional Specification documents.
• Facilitate/Arbitrate where requirements gathering becomes complex or controversial.
• Responsible for explaining the client requirements to the software development and testing teams. Incase of enhancements or modifications, the incumbent should coordinate with these two functions and include the changes accordingly.
• Responsible for functional testing and detection of bugs for all the tested components.
• Deployment of the project at the client site. Should perform User Acceptance Test.
• Should be aware of the processes.
• Responsible for developing software applications according to the quality standards.
• Formal Business and Functional Requirements gathering knowledge.
• Strong UML modeling skills.
• Strong knowledge of Configuration Management and Change Management.
• Should be able to writing Business Requirement Documents, Use Cases/User Stories etc.
• Facilitate/Arbitrate where requirements gathering becomes complex or controversial.
• Work closely with developers and architects to build custom applications.
• Be involved with all phases of development (analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment).
• Coach and mentor team members.
• Travel to work at client sites.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Good communication skills.
• Must have done direct customer interaction.
• BE/B Tech + MBA Degree.
• Knowledge of a testing methodology and/or experience in testing (System, Unit, Integration, Interface).
• Understanding of data modeling, object modeling, and OO design principles.
• Exceptional listening, written and verbal communication skills.