Business Analyst ( Financial Industry)

We have a need for a Business Analyst for a 6 month + contract need. Candidate can operate remotely within the US. Ideally, this candidate will have experience working within the Financial industry with 5+ years as a member of a Waterfall/Agile software development team.

Location: Remote

Duration: 6 month +

Responsible for helping the business transform their vision for our Financial Professionals into working products using Agile methodologies and tools to build roadmaps, create stories, and work with IT on refinement, sprint planning, and delivery. The role involves communicating deliverables and progress clearly to stakeholders, facilitators, and partners. Also supports project/program managers in planning, managing, documenting, and communicating timelines, tasks, issues, decisions, and risks to ensure successful delivery of business objectives.

Keys: agile, business analyst, BA

Responsibilities:

Responsible for requirement definition and user testing acceptance by partnering with IT

Facilitates activities and workshops to elicit requirements; Writes BRD/User Stories, Business process flow diagrams

Responsible for creating and maintaining requirements

Ensures requirements and process flows are accurately documented

Escalates gaps or issues to Product Owner and Project Manager

Partners with Project Manager to define UAT testing activities and timeline; ensures there are test cases to validate all final approved requirements.

Works with project team to develop test cases aligned with requirements and in partnership with the Product Owner

Reports out on UAT status. Supports resolution of UAT issues

Log UAT bugs discovered during UAT testing after review of validating bugs and to prevent duplicate bug entries

Logs issues discovered during Production releases Reports out on UAT status. Supports resolution of UAT issues in addition to IT; Tracks status and resolution of each bug

Logs issues discovered during Production releases in addition to IT

Creates and maintains the test strategy document in partnership with the Product Owner

Create and maintain UAT Test Strategy and Test Scenarios

Communicate UAT test metrics daily to project team

Basic Requirements:

5+ years of experience as a member of Waterfall and/or Agile software development team, preferably as a Business Analyst or Product Owner

Experience in dealing with multiple enterprise-scalable projects and cross-functional teams, and ability to coordinate across teams in a large matrix organization

Regards

Karthika