Senior / Lead Business Analyst - BFSI

Epam Systems; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Epam Systems is seeking an experienced Senior / Lead Business Analyst to join our BFSI practice. You will act as a key liaison between development and business partners, elicit requirements, propose functional solutions, and drive Agile delivery across the software development lifecycle.

You will work directly with clients and stakeholders, document requirements with end-to-end traceability, run workshops, and guide teams to meet objectives.

Qualifications

• 6 to 15 years of experience in business analysis and stakeholder management.
• Experience as liaison between development and business partners on SDLC projects.
• Expertise in documenting software requirements with end-to-end traceability.
• Proficiency with ALM tools for feature/epic descriptions, user stories, and acceptance criteria using Gherkin BDD.
• Experience with Agile frameworks (SCRUM, Kanban, Scrum Ban or SAFe).
• Understanding of Agile processes and ceremonies.
• Experience creating BRD and FRD.
• Domain knowledge in BFSI, Insurance, Payments, Capital Markets or Investment Banking.

Responsibilities

• Act as a liaison between development and business partners across SDLC projects.
• Engage with clients and stakeholders for requirements elicitation and acceptance testing.
• Provide trusted advisory support to client and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate on requirements feasibility discussions, ambiguity resolution, and test reviews.
• Document software requirements and manage end-to-end traceability.
• Run workshops with business users and summarize action items.
• Drive Agile processes and ceremonies and write user stories from Sprint/PI goals.
• Facilitate requirement gathering for data movement and cloud needs.
• Diagram complex processes to aid discussions.
• Guide teams toward prescribed goals.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Agile process

Requirements gathering

BRD/FRD

Gherkin BDD

SDLC liaison

Tools

xJira

Rally ALM

TFS

ServiceNow

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Senior / Lead Business Analyst to join our BFSI practice, acting as a key liaison between development and business partners across the software development lifecycle. In this role, you will work directly with clients and stakeholders to elicit requirements, propose functional solutions and drive Agile delivery while serving as a trusted advisor across complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Act as a liaison between development and business partners throughout SDLC projects
• Work directly with client and business stakeholders for requirements elicitation, proposing feasible functional solutions, supporting acceptance testing, getting client buy-in and conflict handling
• Serve as a trusted advisor to client and business stakeholders
• Collaborate with development stakeholders on requirements feasibility discussions, elaboration, ambiguity resolution, clarifications, test scenario review, test result review and conflict handling
• Document requirements of a software system and manage requirements with end-to-end traceability
• Run workshops with business users and summarise the action items
• Drive the Agile process and ceremonies
• Write needed stories based upon the Sprint/PI goals
• Facilitate requirement gathering for data movement and needs
• Diagram complex processes to allow for simpler discussions
• Guide teams in their efforts to meet prescribed goals
• Gather requirements and information needed to stand up a cloud environment

Requirements

• 6 to 15 years of experience in business analysis, requirement gathering and stakeholder management
• Background in working on SDLC projects as a liaison between development and business partners
• Expertise in documentation of software system requirements and requirements management with end-to-end traceability
• Proficiency in xJira, Rally ALM, TFS or ServiceNow or similar project/change management tools for feature/epic description, user stories and acceptance criteria using Gherkin BDD approach
• SDLC experience in most Agile frameworks, at least one among SCRUM, Kanban, Scrum Ban or SAFe
• Understanding of Agile process and ceremonies
• Skills in creating BRD and FRD
• Background in any of the leading domains like BFSI, Insurance, Payments, Capital Markets or Investment Banking