Business Analyst - Agri Domain

Key Expectations & Responsibilities

The identified candidate should be able to analyze a broadly-defined area and using functional decomposition to define high-level epics and stories to create a well-organized, value-driven framework to provide the required business value in the Product Backlog.

Should suggest improvements to business processes, assists decision-makers in gathering information to make decisions, helps quality assurance test solutions and products, designs user interfaces.

Conducts workshop, sessions to drive product stakeholders towards defining requirements.

Propose new approaches to solving the business problem and improvements to the business processes in which the problem exists.

Should be independent contributor.

Writing individual user stories that are very clear and concise and are easy to understand and implement by the development team.

Identifying related user stories and epics, grouping them into themes as necessary and documenting the interrelationship and associated business process flows as necessary

Prepare EPICS, Themes , User Stories and maintain product backlog, release backlog

Constantly groom user stories, update acceptance criteria and keep the backlog up-to date

Reviews, explain, orally, visually user stories, functional aspect of the system

Participate in sprint review meetings, accept stories that meet the user acceptance criteria

Manage changes to the stories, split user stories as appropriate

Preparation of Documentation, Help files, and other project documentation to assure quality of the products and tests to be developed.

Serve as a liaison with the business community and IT to ensure that changes are understood.

Promptly escalate issues, which affect product delivery and quality that are beyond scope of influence and report same to Project Lead/technical lead

Required Skills

Must Have:

Experience in functional decomposition of requirement in a logical manner.

Ability to articulate functional acceptance criteria.

Ability to draw visuals manually or using any tool to present functionality and system behavior

Ability to interview users and capture user requirement as stories

Client interactions during the project/product life cycle

Good analytical skills

3-5 years of experience in Agriculture domain.

Over all understanding of ERP, SCM, CRM kind of business process for better comprehension

At least 1 full life cycle development experience of Concept to Delivery

Hands on tools like JIRA, TFS kind of requirement management repositories

Working experience of 3-5 years of Agile based projects as B.A. and aware of all nuances of Agile, SCRUM methodologies.