Functional Business Analyst - Requirements & Process Growth

Programmers.io; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Programmerrs.io is seeking an experienced Functional Business Analyst to work with business, product, and technology teams to analyze requirements, improve processes, and translate needs into clear technical specs.

Responsibilities include gathering requirements, creating BRD/FRD and user stories, performing gap analyses, and guiding QA and development through the SDLC. Strong SQL/Excel skills and stakeholder communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Proven business analyst experience with BRD/FRD artifacts.
• Strong requirements gathering and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience translating business needs into functional specs and test cases.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum and SDLC methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and document business and functional requirements from stakeholders.
• Conduct requirement-gathering sessions, workshops, interviews, and stakeholder meetings.
• Create BRD, FRD, functional specs, process flows, use cases, and user stories.
• Translate business requirements into detailed functional specs for development and QA teams.
• Perform current-state / future-state analysis, gap analysis, and process mapping.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, developers, QA, and stakeholders throughout the SDLC.
• Define acceptance criteria and support backlog refinement and sprint planning.
• Support SIT, UAT, defect resolution, and production releases.
• Analyze data using SQL and Excel to validate requirements and investigate issues.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure requirements are understood, traceable, and delivered.
• Identify process improvements and recommend functional solutions.
• Maintain documentation and share status updates with stakeholders.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder mgmt

BRD/FRD docs

Agile/Scrum

SQL & Excel

SDLC knowledge

UAT/SIT support

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Visio

Lucidchart

Job description

Programmerrs.io is seeking an experienced Functional Business Analyst to work with business, product, and technology teams to analyze requirements, improve processes, and translate needs into clear technical specs.

Responsibilities include gathering requirements, creating BRD/FRD and user stories, performing gap analyses, and guiding QA and development through the SDLC. Strong SQL/Excel skills and stakeholder communication are essential.