Business Analyst

Ascentt; Plano (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascentt is building cutting-edge data analytics and AI/ML solutions for global automotive and manufacturing leaders. We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to drive business planning and delivery capabilities within an enterprise platform.

You will partner with product leadership, client stakeholders, and engineering teams to translate complex business needs into well-defined requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, while guiding QA and UAT across distributed teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Business Analysis experience in enterprise tech.
• Translate complex needs into functional requirements.
• Lead client/work sessions with stakeholders.
• Create testable acceptance criteria and user stories.
• Collaborate across distributed teams in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead sessions with client stakeholders and workshops to uncover needs.
• Translate needs into structured requirements, journeys, and user stories.
• Maintain traceability from needs to tests and feedback.
• Refine backlogs with distributed development teams.
• Define test scenarios and review QA test cases.
• Prepare teams for UAT and validation sessions.
• Triage client feedback and drive resolution with owners.
• Provide readiness recommendations and inform product refinements.
• Develop evaluation scenarios for AI-assisted capabilities.

Skills

Stakeholder facilitation

Requirements gathering

User stories development

Communication skills

Workshop leadership

QA/UAT collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering

Tools

Jira

Job description

Ascentt is building cutting-edge data analytics & AI/ML solutions for global automotive and manufacturing leaders. We turn enterprise data into real-time decisions using advanced machine learning and GenAI. Our team solves hard engineering problems at scale, with real-world industry impact. We’re hiring passionate builders to shape the future of industrial intelligence.

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to play a key role in the continued development and client enablement of an enterprise platform that supports complex business planning and delivery processes.

The Business Analyst will work closely with product leadership, client stakeholders, development teams, and QA teams to ensure that business needs are deeply understood, translated into well-defined product requirements, progressively refined with the delivery team, comprehensively tested, and successfully validated with users.

What You Will Do

• Independently lead working sessions with client stakeholders and subject matter experts, requirements workshops, application walkthroughs, feedback sessions, and capability reviews, probing beyond stated requests to understand the underlying business need, challenge assumptions, and identify gaps and edge cases.
• Translate product direction, design concepts, and client needs into structured functional requirements, user journeys, process flows, business rules, and user stories with clear business context and testable acceptance criteria.
• Maintain traceability from business needs through requirements, stories, testing, and client feedback.
• Collaborate with distributed onsite and offshore development teams to refine the backlog, provide rapid functional clarification during development, and ensure the original business intent is preserved as solutions are designed and built.
• Partner with QA to define business scenarios and expected outcomes, review and challenge test coverage beyond the happy path and perform selective hands-on validation of important workflows.
• Prepare client working teams to evaluate functionality in realistic scenarios and lead UAT and application validation sessions.
• Capture, categorize, and triage client feedback, distinguishing defects, usability improvements, configuration needs, client‑specific requirements, and reusable product enhancements, and drive findings to resolution with named owners.
• Provide functional readiness recommendations to product leadership for features and pilots, along with analysis that informs product refinement, positioning, and go‑to‑market messaging.
• Develop functional expectations and evaluation scenarios for AI‑assisted capabilities, considering output quality, consistency, explainability, guardrails, and human‑review patterns where AI behavior differs from deterministic functionality.

The Senior Business Analyst works collaboratively across these areas, story readiness is achieved together with the development team, and the role complements rather than replaces the dedicated QA function.

A Note on AI-Enabled Product Analysis

The platform incorporates AI‑assisted functionality, and experience with AI‑enabled products will be a differentiating capability for this role. The Senior Business Analyst is not expected to be an AI engineer or data scientist, but should be able, or strongly motivated, to understand how AI‑enabled functionality differs from traditional deterministic application behavior, and to help define how such capabilities are specified, evaluated, and validated from a business and user perspective.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Product Business Analysis, Business Systems Analysis, or a comparable role supporting enterprise technology products or solutions.
• Strong experience analyzing business processes and translating complex business needs into structured functional requirements.
• Ability to rapidly develop functional understanding of complex enterprise business processes without requiring deep prior expertise in a specific business domain.
• Demonstrated experience leading substantive client or stakeholder working sessions, with the ability to engage stakeholders through questioning, analysis, and constructive challenge rather than simply documenting requested functionality.
• Strong experience developing user stories and clear, testable acceptance criteria; hands‑on proficiency with Jira in Agile product‑development environments.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with software development teams to refine and groom requirements, and a strong functional understanding of software development and testing lifecycles.
• Experience developing test scenarios, reviewing QA test cases, supporting functional testing, and participating in UAT.
• Ability to identify business‑process gaps, edge cases, exceptions, dependencies, risks, and impacts.
• Experience working with distributed teams, including onsite and offshore development and QA teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including workshop facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder management; ability to synthesize complex or unstructured discussions into clear decisions, requirements, and actions.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.

Preferred / Differentiating Qualifications

• Experience supporting the development or implementation of enterprise SaaS or configurable software products.
• Experience working simultaneously across product development and client implementation or pilot initiatives.
• Experience with AI‑enabled, Generative AI, or intelligent workflow applications, including evaluating AI capabilities from a business and user perspective.
• Domain exposure to enterprise IT delivery: portfolio/project management, IT intake and governance, vendor management, procurement, consulting, or PMO operations.
• Experience with process-modeling, journey‑mapping, wireframing, or collaboration tools such as Visio, Lucidchart, Miro, Figma, or similar platforms.
• CBAP, PMI‑PBA, or comparable Business Analysis certification is a plus.