Business Analyst - Chennai

Photon; India; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon in India is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to drive agile teams, write clear user stories, and groom the backlog for upcoming releases.

You'll collaborate with Product Owner, Business Users, and the Technical Team to refine requirements, define acceptance criteria, and ensure deliverables meet quality standards.

With 7+ years in IT or business analysis, you will establish robust requirements processes and coordinate QA to validate functionality.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of IT or Business Analysis experience in researching, testing, documenting and/or maintaining applications or using applications in a business setting.
• Experience in working as part of Agile teams.
• Digitally savvy, with a passion for innovative and quality digital products.
• Skilled in feature decomposition, context diagrams, stakeholder analysis, use cases, business process definition, user stories, and backlog management.
• Excellent communication skills; both oral and written
• Prior experience in handling RPA or process automation projects is a big plus

Responsibilities

• Experience with Agile methodology, writing user stories, managing scrum calls, prioritizing backlog, etc.

Skills

Agile methods

User stories

Backlog management

Stakeholder analysis

Process modeling

Documentation

Communication skills

RPA experience

Job description

• Experience with Agile methodology, writing user stories, managing scrum calls, prioritizing backlog, etc.
• Elicit functional and non-functional requirements and document in the form of epic, stories, wireframes, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop use cases and process flows and ensure documentation conforms to the standards.
• Facilitate the ongoing backlog grooming process, supporting the Product Owner to define value, priority, and select scope for upcoming releases and sprints.
• Collaborate with Product Owner, Business Users, and Technical Team to write and elaborate user stories to include acceptance criteria and business rules per the team’s “Definition of Ready”
• Ensure stories meet quality criteria; for example: unambiguous, complete, consistent, deterministic, and testable.
• Ensure stories are "Ready" for upcoming sprints.
• Establish a requirements management strategy for the team, which describes process for elicitation, documentation standards and format, tools, meeting cadence, backlog grooming process, review & approval process, change process, and communications processes.
• Analyze new requests from stakeholders and determine if the request is a defect, new story, a modification to an existing story, or already covered in an existing story. Update the backlog and stories as appropriate.
• Works with QA to develop and execute test plans based on appropriate coverage for the functionality being delivered.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of related experience as IT or Business Analysis that includes researching, testing, documenting and/or maintaining applications or using applications in a business setting
• Experience in working as part of Agile teams
• Digitally savvy, with a passion for innovative and quality digital products
• Skilled in various business analysis techniques including; feature decomposition, context diagrams, stakeholder analysis, state diagrams, wireframes, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, use cases, business process definition, user stories, and backlog management.
• Excellent communication skills; both oral and written
• Prior experience in handling RPA or process automation projects is a big plus