Business Analyst

Business Analyst
Your responsibilities will be centered on developing relationships with key stakeholders enabling you to fully understand the needs of Ikano Bank and our partners. You will act as the conduit between the development team and other stakeholders within the Agile Release Train to ensure these needs are met and stakeholder expectations are fulfilled.
o You will be working in close collaboration with the Product Owner, the Scrum Master and the development team
o You will be part of the backlog refinement sessions for the Agile Release Train, wherein details are discussed on features committed in current Program Increment and features prioritized for coming Program Increment
o You will be responsible for brainstorming on the Features prioritized for the upcoming Program Increment along with relevant stakeholders to capture requirement understanding, queries and inter dependencies with other teams within the Agile Release Train
- Program Increment Execution- Your responsibilities during the execution of a Program Increment would include:
o Undertake requirements and gap analysis for the feature descriptions provided by Product Management
o Be part of requirements review with the development team and drive the discussions as required with other teams and architects
o Be part of the requirements walk through for UI Design team and ensure design alignment with Business features (Web and Mobile Apps)
o Create user stories for the Team Backlog
o Participate in team backlog refinement and ensure user story refinement based on inputs from the team
o Review the test cases and enable creation of relevant test scenarios in alignment with Business features
o Support the market release of a feature by providing required clarifications and information regarding the Business features to involved teams
- Professional skills
o Excellent interpersonal communication skills (written, verbal and presentation)
o Strong investigative and analytical skills
o Ability to understand technical and commercial aspects of business operations across a range of departments
o Ability to relate practical issues in an operational environment and document in a clear and concise manner
o Experience with Agile SDLC methodology (e g SAFe) and Scrum processes
- Experience
o A minimum of 3 years BA experience in IT or related industry
o Working with key stakeholders across business and driving out what they would like to achieve with the change
o Creation of feature/user story requirements
o Solid knowledge or experience of being involved in QAT/UAT testing
o Financial services or Banking industry experience