Senior Technical Business Analyst/Sr Product Owner
Bangalore/Coimbatore
Fulltime
Goals:
- Help businesses implement technology solutions in a cost-effective way by determining the requirements of a project or program, and communicating them clearly to stakeholders, facilitators and partners.
- Should be multifaceted as a mediator, moderator, connector and ambassador in bringing client business needs together with IT resources.
- Should be clear communicator, smooth facilitator, precise analyzer and team player.
- Should act like a bridge between business systems from the end user to functional implementation of technical solutions.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
- Do the ground work before requirements gathering meeting with the client about their line of business and any sample applications etc.,
- Interact with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their problems and needs
- Completely listen and jot down the key words, points and ask questions if not understood.
- Analyze the requirements after the meeting while creating the very first version of the requirements document.
- Identify work flows and patterns that could help with the ability for system to drive the process.
Pointers to follow with requirements and documenting:
1. Extract requirements: Incomplete or improper requirements lead to project failure
2. Anticipate requirements: It is dynamic world of IT
3. Constrain requirements: Focus on core business needs, not on users personal preferences / trends /outdated processes.
4. Organize requirements: Requirements often originates from disparate. BA must organize requirements into related categories for effective management and communication.
5. Translate requirements: Sometimes, need to be translated into technical requirements or assist to the team who makes the technical requirements.
6. Simplify requirements
- Share a clearly written document with client and get the approval. Get clarifications if needed.
- Understand the client demo timelines and plan the work for dev team accordingly.
- Pull the user stories and necessary tasks into sprints to meet the demo deadlines.
- Make use of testing team if available (by assigning task to testing team) OR you test the finished user stories.
- Plan deployments for internal testing / UAT/DEMO
- Perform database validation on the stored procedures developed to make sure the right output is derived for the UX mock up designed.
- Plan for smooth UAT after internal testing either by using testing team or by yourself.
