Senior Product Analyst

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop a deep understanding of our users and their workflows, products, and markets through exposure to product support and testing activities 
• Developing basic product thinking skills. Starts by defining the problems, goals and needs, and then experiments to uncover the best solution
• Support applications by answering questions and troubleshooting bugs with some oversight
• Flagging bugs and defects and relaying issues within the development team
• Create and automate software test plans, cases, and scripts
• Identify recurring issues/requests and make recommendations for feature enhancements
• Communicates product bugs and workarounds in a structured manner, and with impact, to a variety of stakeholders including Product, Content, and Engineering.
• Enthusiasm and initiative to solve problems with a combination of analytical skills and creativity
• Work alongside product managers to translate user needs into requirements and acceptance criteria
• Contributes to keeping product documentation updated as directed by the product team
• Building expertise on how to escalate and advise workarounds.
• Effectively organizes and manages own work with some oversight

Required Skills :

• Preferably a minimum of 1 to 3 years of relevant experience
• Command of intermediate-level skills in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Technical skills: Any Object-Oriented Programming language (OOPs).
• Knowledge on Software Development Life Cycle
• Ability to complete daily tasks or projects in a timely and accurate manner
• Articulate communicator, with excellent language skills – both oral and written
• Quick learner: ability to apply skills and past experiences in new situations
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail and ability to see big picture
• A desire for continuous learning and improvement

Preferred Skills:

• Exposure/Knowledge on Enterprise Software from FactSet, Thomson Reuters, Bloomberg, or Capital IQ
• Knowledge of financial databases used in financial markets 
• Technical specification writing or maintenance experience of tools, enhancements, and products 
• Working experience on testing tools and Automation tools
• Have a good understanding on creating and executing test cases