Sr. Business Analyst

Cognizant; Kolkata District, Bidhannagar; Hybrid; INR 1,674,000 - 2,344,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant in Kolkata, India seeks a Senior Business Analyst to translate stakeholder needs into clear requirements and drive impactful solutions aligned with organizational strategy. The role offers hybrid work with day shifts and collaboration across teams to enhance performance and optimize operations.

The candidate will analyze diverse processes, document workflows, and coordinate with global stakeholders while ensuring delivery quality and governance throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Eight to ten years of experience in business analysis.
• Proficient in process modeling, requirements elicitation and impact assessment.
• Experience with hybrid work models and distributed teams.
• Strong documentation skills including requirements specifications and use cases.
• Ability to coordinate with global stakeholders and manage day shifts.

Responsibilities

• Analyze diverse business processes and stakeholder objectives to identify improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to gather detailed business requirements and translate them into clear specifications.
• Document current and future state workflows with process maps and narratives.
• Evaluate solution options and recommend approaches balancing value and feasibility.
• Facilitate requirement walkthroughs with stakeholders to align scope and priorities.
• Support development by clarifying requirements and validating designs against needs.
• Design test scenarios and acceptance criteria to enable robust UAT outcomes.
• Analyze data and performance metrics to measure value realization and plan improvements.
• Prepare clear status reports and analytics summaries for stakeholders.
• Coordinate onsite and remote collaboration sessions to maintain productivity.
• Ensure compliance with internal standards and regulations across deliverables.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing with reusable templates and best practices.

Skills

Business analysis

Process modeling

Requirements elicitation

Impact assessment

Documentation

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Job summary

Sr Business Analyst role focused on analyzing complex business processes translating stakeholder needs into clear requirements and driving impactful solutions that align with organizational strategy. The role involves hybrid work with day shifts collaborating across teams to improve performance optimize operations and enable data informed decisions while ensuring consistent delivery quality and sustainable value.

Responsibilities

• Analyze diverse business processes and stakeholder objectives to identify improvement opportunities that enhance operational efficiency and support strategic organizational goals.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to gather detailed business requirements and translate them into clear functional specifications that guide solution design and implementation.
• Document current and future state workflows with precise process maps and narratives that help stakeholders understand impacts dependencies and required changes.
• Evaluate potential solution options using structured analysis techniques and recommend approaches that balance business value feasibility and long term sustainability.
• Facilitate requirement walkthroughs and feedback sessions with stakeholders to confirm shared understanding resolve ambiguities and secure alignment on scope and priorities.
• Support development and configuration activities by clarifying requirements answering business context questions and validating proposed technical designs against business needs.
• Design comprehensive test scenarios and acceptance criteria that verify end to end coverage of requirements and enable robust user acceptance testing outcomes.
• Analyze data and performance metrics from implemented solutions to measure value realization identify gaps or issues and propose improvements that refine business outcomes.
• Prepare clear status reports and analytic summaries that communicate progress risks and insights to stakeholders in a concise and actionable format.
• Coordinate hybrid working interactions by planning onsite and remote collaboration sessions that maintain productivity inclusiveness and timely decision making.
• Ensure compliance with internal standards and industry regulations in all analysis deliverables so that solutions are secure ethical and aligned to societal expectations.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing by creating reusable templates guidelines and best practice documentation that strengthen the business analysis capability across the company.
• Partner with business and technology teams to ensure that implemented solutions improve customer and employee experiences and positively impact broader communities.

Qualifications

• Apply deep business analysis expertise gained from eight to ten years of experience to interpret complex stakeholder needs and convert them into structured requirements.
• Demonstrate strong proficiency in business analysis practices and business analysis and planning disciplines such as process modeling requirements elicitation and impact assessment.
• Utilize solid understanding of hybrid work models to manage time communication and collaboration tools effectively within distributed teams.
• Exhibit advanced skills in preparing detailed documentation including requirement specifications and use cases that are easily understood by both business and technical partners.
• Show capability to work within day shift schedules while coordinating with global stakeholders through well planned meetings and clear written communication.
• Display proven ability to manage medium to large scale initiatives as a senior business analyst ensuring scope control requirement traceability and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Reveal familiarity with common enterprise platforms and data reporting tools that support analysis traceability and visualization of business performance trends.

Certifications Required

Certification of Competency in Business Analysis CCBA or Professional in Business Analysis PBA or equivalent recognized business analysis certification.