Senior Business Analyst

Summary

Join Nagarro, a rapidly scaling digital product engineering company, as a Business Analyst (Agile/Scrum). You will define and deliver solutions, acting as a facilitator between the Business Analytics and Insights (BAI) team and stakeholders. Collaborate with the BAI Agile Team, including Business Relationship Managers, Scrum Masters, and developers, to evaluate requirements and develop strategies. Create functional and non-functional product backlog items and user stories for various digital solutions in the manufacturing industry. This role involves working in a continuous delivery mode, applying Agile and Lean principles for efficient delivery. You will contribute to project scope definition, user story creation, and prioritization, ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs and successful solution delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, Information Technology, or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Business Analyst working on information technology projects
• Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Business Analyst in an agile Business Intelligence project-based environment
• Understanding and experience within Business Analytics & Insights Technologies such as Microsoft Azure, Databricks, and Microsoft Power BI
• 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 outcome/decision
• Familiarity with project management methodologies and software development lifecycle
• Knowledge of relevant tools such as Microsoft Visio, JIRA, Confluence, etc
• 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
• Experienced working with teams in multiple time zones

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 Business Relationship 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 facilitates 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, BAs, and Quality Assurance Analysts 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