Senior Business Analyst

Job Description Summary

The market leading suite of Tax and Accounting Software products are renowned for their quality, compliance and timeliness. The effort we put into interpreting, applying & testing legislative and functional changes to our software makes a significant contribution to the products’ continued success.

Working closely with the Product Owner and within the Scrum Team, this role will be involved in the business analysis of the product area which this role is assigned to

Exp: Total 4-5 yrs. Of industry experience out of which at least 2 years.

Remit:

• Business Analysis: 
  • Gather requirements- Facilitate and clarify customer business needs and translating them into application and operational requirements
  • Produce concise and effective User Stories
  • Define appropriate User Story acceptance criteria
  • Interface with all levels of internal clients and analyze current business
• Scrum Responsibility:
  • Help PO in testing user stories and take them to closure.
  • Scenario based regression testing
  • Foster Agile/ SAFe principles and methods for requirement gathering, analysis, closing user stories in a timely manner
  • Support and adhere to Scrum Processes.
• Bug tracking:
  • Using incident tracking system to assist in managing, verifying and assigning priorities to reported issues and requests for change
• Professional Development:
  • To alert the PO of essential classroom or on-the-job training needs
  • Keep self-briefed through reading trade press, technology press, books and other published works as necessary to optimise performance in the role
  • Keep self-trained in Cloud technology such as Azure using Pluralsight.

The following Mandatory skill set is required:

• Overview of Software Engineering Processes
• Concepts and techniques for the preparation of test scenarios
• Methodologies for software development and quality management
• Concepts and techniques on requirements management
• Working knowledge of MS Office suite
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to identify and assess risks, problems and issues
• Good understanding of Scrum and its application in projects (desirable)
• Must be able to deal with external customers relating to a project
• Must be comfortable dealing with both external and internal stakeholders at all levels
• Good experience in working on cloud based (Azure) accounting products
• Good logical reasoning, mathematical and deductive, adaptability to new situations
• Large persuasiveness, flexibility, empathy
• Ability to mediate meetings and participate in the decision-making process

Nice to have Skills:

• Knowledge of Enterprise Architect tool
• Working knowledge of SQL queries
• A good understanding of tax principles or Accounting Practice (as applicable)

Educational Qualification: Min. Graduate preferred.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.