Business Analyst

• Current position is under ALMT IT team scope to contribute, in individual capacity, on development, enhancements, and maintenance & support activities for multiple applications by efficiently utilizing continuous improvement and agile methodology. Immediate tasks would include but not restricted to
• To create and maintain functional specifications document and work closely with the development and testing team.
• To co-ordinate closely with the business users and onsite BAs or managers of the application to understand the functional requirements
• To perform functional tests and assist with user acceptance tests

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Interact with functional and technical representatives of project teams to understand business functionalities, technical modules, integration mechanism and data sources.
• Prepare functional specifications for developers and testers.
• Work with developers to prepare test plans and conduct Integration, Regression, Performance and Functional Testing using automated testing frameworks wherever applicable/required
• Review Functional Specs, Functional Test Cases prepared by IT team.
• Contribute to the technical designing phase and create prototype for proof of concept, along with developers and business requirements validations.
• Provide functional assistance to Development/Testing teams
• Participate in peer reviews of Functional Specs, test plan, test strategy, test cases and test runs
• Conduct user training sessions on applications and functionalities
• Train others (wherever required) to ensure knowledge sharing and backup
• Ensure that the project and organization standards are followed during various phases of software development lifecycle and day to day development work.
• Estimate efforts and schedule for various modules and meet deadlines
• Functional Release Documentation
• To participate in out-of-hours / daytime support as required
• To ensure that the application is of good quality, ensure any issues are fixed on priority.
• To work with teams to help solve complex problems
• Work towards initiatives to improve processes and delivery efficiency
• Contribute to recruitment efforts - both for the team as well as for the organization
• Contribute towards innovation; suggest new practices for efficiency improvement.
• Provide L3 Support
• To ensure all activities carried out and solutions proposed, planned and delivered are compliant with Organization policy guidelines.

Contributing Responsibilities

• Contribute towards innovation, suggest new practices to be investigated
• Contribute towards initiatives to improve processes and delivery
• Contribute towards recruitment efforts - both for the team as well as for the organization

Mandatory Technical Skills:

• Experience as a Business Analyst in the IT industry, in Banking domain.
• Knowledge of Retail Banking and Banking products Loan/Deposits/etc is a must.
• Good SQL Query writing skills
• Understanding of Trade Life Cycle
• Thorough understanding of complete Software Development Lifecycle
• Self-motivated, good interpersonal skills and inclination to constantly upgrade on new technologies and frameworks.
• Good communication, good interpersonal skills and co-ordination activities, self-motivation, and inclination to constantly upgrade on new developments in the industry.
• Ability to understand business requirements easily and translate them into functional requirements.
• Capability to understand and analyze complex IT applications and financial product structures
• Excellent documentation ability
• Experience in preparing requirement specifications and perform functional tests and UAT

Nice to have Skills:

• Knowledge or Experience with Treasury functions and business processes.
• Experience/Knowledge of Datawarehouse concepts
• Knowledge of Agile Process

Experience : 3 to 6 years.