Business Analyst

Summary

Join Nagarro, a global digital product engineering company, as a Business Analyst (Agile/Scrum). You will play a crucial role in scoping, defining, designing, and delivering solutions that achieve business outcomes. Collaborate with the IT Global Delivery Europe Team and Business Stakeholders, working within an Agile/Scrum framework. Key responsibilities include creating and refining user stories, facilitating Agile ceremonies, and ensuring alignment between business needs and technical solutions. You will work closely with Product Managers, Scrum Masters, and other Business Analysts to prioritize tasks and ensure successful project delivery. This role requires strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills, along with experience in Agile methodologies and relevant tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, Information Technology, or a related field
• Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Business Analyst working on information technology projects in an agile Business Intelligence project-based environment
• Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks and Agile tools
• Proficient with user stories, Scrum, Kanban, retrospectives, team planning and other related Agile techniques
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Proficiency in requirement gathering techniques, process modeling, and documentation
• Experience interacting with cross-functional groups to support consensus outcomes/decisions
• Familiarity with project management methodologies and software development lifecycle
• Knowledge of relevant tools such as Microsoft Visio, JIRA, Confluence, etc

Responsibilities

• Work in continuous delivery mode, analyzing, testing, and delivering features iteratively
• Consistently demonstrate Agile processes and principles for effective delivery
• Consistently demonstrate Lean principles for efficient delivery
• Work with the Product Manager, Scrum Master and Product Owner on defining the project's detailed scope
• Responsible for creating, refining, and maintaining user stories and associated deliverables such as process flows and test cases to meet development and stakeholder needs
• Provide guidance and facilitate conversations as needed on sizing stories, choosing stories for sprints, splitting stories, and determining technical story details
• Work with the Product Owner and other BAs with the prioritization of user stories in the product backlog
• Work with the Product Owner and BAs on defining acceptance criteria sufficiently for testing
• Work with the Product Owner to confirm the delivered solution is in fulfillment of the stated requirements
• Work with business stakeholders to test user stories
• Guide the team to ensure a solid understanding of the ceremonies, expectations, deliverables, dependencies, and their role in the Agile development methodology
• Provide coaching in the discipline for junior resources

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification in Business Analysis (e.g., CBAP, CCBA) is advantageous
• Experience moderating team dynamics and leading through influence
• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques
• Experience in how to apply different techniques to optimize the team's effectiveness when developing in an agile framework (for example: various Burndown technologies, differing retrospectives, sprint planning handling bugs, etc.)
• Experience with removing blockers for teams and acting as a champion for a cross-functional team or department