The Business Analyst will be responsible for supporting an application or multiple applications within a Delivery Team (or at times across teams ). Her/his core responsibilities include eliciting and documenting both business, functional, non-functional and technical requirements, supporting quality assurance testing and UAT, and triaging incoming issues, defects, and enhancement requests.
What will your essential responsibilities include
- Determine & document business requirements by generating User Stories in Agile Scrum.
- Validate the overall IT solution to ensure alignment to business requirements, review requirements and/or specifications with the development and test teams to ensure understanding.
- Using process, system and business knowledge / experience assess the feasibility & benefits of proposed projects.
- Shape user requirements by challenging the business.
- Collaborate with Transformation & Change Delivery process resources to ensure requirements and solution fit into the process flow and do not create gaps and/or breakages.
- Help identify how requirements can help make the process more efficient.
- Facilitate user acceptance testing and provide support for issues/changes in production.
We re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:
- Knowledge of Wild Commercial would be an advantage.
- Ability to extract and document business requirements by writing User Stories, to support the delivery of a technical solution.
- Must have familiarity with various business analyst techniques e.g., User interviewing / Workshop facilitation / Business Process Modelling / Use Case, As-Is and To-Be Business Process Analysis / Writing Epics & User Stories.
- Proven experience of business analysis within the insurance market. Familiarity with full policy lifecycle, especially Rate/Quote/Bind systems experience.
- Significant experience of supporting all phases of the software development life cycle, including UAT support & oversight.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, create accurate estimates and identify project risks through the project lifecycle.
- Demonstrate stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to build trusting relationships with the business.
- UX design experience & ability to use SQL an advantage.
- Business facing and able to present information in an influencing manner to leadership and business stakeholders.
- A team-oriented individual with strong communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills are essential.
- Proven planning and organization skills, with an ability to work independently, planning their analysis work, prioritizing workload, preparing in advance and setting realistic timescales.
- Ability to work with data and complex systems.
- Experience with multiple SDLC methodologies, particularly Agile Scrum.
- Must be detail conscious, technically motivated, creative and user oriented.
- Able to determine and communicate impacts of system functionality and technical approach on performance, scalability and maintainability.
- Adaptable to new/different strategies, programs, technologies, practices, cultures etc. Comfortable with change, able to easily make transitions.
