Product Owner / Business Analyst

DataArtha Solutions; Ernakulam; Hybrid; INR 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

DataArtha Solutions in Kochi (hybrid) seeks a seasoned professional with 5-8 years in business analysis or product ownership to transform business processes into precise, testable requirements for Pulse. You will build shared understanding across operations, product, UX, engineering and QA to ensure increments are developed, accepted and deployed with minimal rework.

Join a cross-functional, documentation-first product environment; map workflows, write user stories and acceptance criteria,

Qualifications

• Strong process modelling, requirements elicitation and structured documentation.
• User stories with testable acceptance criteria and negative/exception cases.
• Working knowledge of REST APIs, relational data, roles and workflow states.
• Experience facilitating UAT with business users.
• Ability to analyse operational detail without losing the end-to-end outcome.
• Clear English communication and disciplined change control.

Responsibilities

• Map current and target workflows for procurement, quality, inventory, ordering and delivery.
• Write user stories, business rules, acceptance criteria, validations and exception scenarios.
• Maintain traceability from business outcome through requirement, test and release evidence.
• Clarify terminology, master data, status transitions, permissions and record-ownership rules.
• Facilitate refinement, examples, walkthroughs, demos, UAT and release acceptance.
• Identify dependencies, gaps, policy decisions and edge cases before development begins.
• Maintain process models, functional specifications and configuration decisions.
• Support training, release notes and adoption for operations and mobile users.

Skills

Process modelling

Requirements elicitation

Structured documentation

User stories with criteria

UAT facilitation

English communication

Change control

Education

CBAP

PMI-PBA

CSPO

UML/BPMN

Tools

BPMN

UML

REST APIs

SQL

Job description

Turn business processes and product priorities into precise, testable requirements for Pulse. Build shared understanding across operations, product, UX, engineering and QA so that each increment can be developed, accepted and deployed without avoidable ambiguity or rework.

Product Delivery India - Kochi preferred / hybrid 5-8 years in business analysis or product ownership Full-time

Experience 5-8 years in business analysis or product ownership

Employment Full-time

Direct Reports None

Key Responsibilities

• Map current and target workflows for procurement, quality, inventory, ordering and delivery
• Write user stories, business rules, acceptance criteria, validations and exception scenarios
• Maintain traceability from business outcome through requirement, test and release evidence
• Clarify terminology, master data, status transitions, permissions and record-ownership rules
• Facilitate refinement, examples, walkthroughs, demos, UAT and release acceptance
• Identify dependencies, gaps, policy decisions and edge cases before development begins
• Maintain process models, functional specifications and configuration decisions
• Support training, release notes and adoption for operations and mobile users

Essential Qualifications & Skills

• Strong process modelling, requirements elicitation and structured documentation
• User stories with testable acceptance criteria and negative/exception cases
• Working knowledge of REST APIs, relational data, roles and workflow states
• Experience facilitating UAT with business users
• Ability to analyse operational detail without losing the end-to-end outcome
• Clear English communication and disciplined change control

First Six Months

Expected outcomes

• Complete process and terminology baseline for all MVP domains
• Maintain two-sprint-ready requirements with acceptance examples
• Define permissions, status models and exception handling with stakeholders
• Coordinate UAT evidence for every monthly release
• Create operational guides and handover inputs for launch

Accountability

Success measures

• Requirement-related defect and rework rate
• Backlog readiness
• UAT pass rate and turnaround
• Decision/gap closure time

Good to Have

Preferred qualifications and behavioural fit

Preferred Qualifications

• Food, retail, warehousing, fulfilment or last-mile delivery experience BPMN/UML and SQL capability CBAP, PMI-PBA, CSPO or equivalent

Behavioural Competencies

Analytical precision Facilitation and active listening Ownership of ambiguity Practical documentation discipline

Working Context

What to expect if you join

The role works in a cross-functional, documentation-first and architecture-led product environment. Candidates must be comfortable with hands-on ownership, transparent decisions, code/design review, automated quality controls and production accountability. The six-month MVP excludes unnecessary microservices, Kubernetes, speculative AI and other scope not approved through product governance.

DataArtha Solutions is committed to fair, respectful and merit-based selection.