Business Analyst

Summary

Join Nagarro, a digital product engineering company, as a Business Analyst (Agile/Scrum) and contribute to the development and delivery of solutions that provide business outcomes. You will work closely with the IT Global Delivery Europe Team and Business Stakeholders, facilitating communication and ensuring alignment between business needs and technical solutions. This role involves collaborating with the IT Delivery Team, including Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Software Developers, and other Business Analysts, to analyze requirements, identify needs, and develop strategies to maximize digital opportunities. You will create and maintain user stories and associated deliverables, guide the team in Agile development methodologies, and provide coaching to junior resources.

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 retrospective, sprint planning handling bugs, etc.)
• Experience with removing blockers for teams and acting as a champion for a cross-functional team or department