Business Analyst - Steering & Referential - ALMT IT

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