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Technical challenge and design assurance\nReview designs from developers, vendors and infrastructure teams, and challenge them on feasibility, scalability, performance, security and supportability.\nReview integration approaches (REST, event-driven, batch, file-based) and test them against failure scenarios, volumes and dependencies.\nValidate sizing, environment and hosting assumptions (Dev/SIT/UAT/Production, cloud and on-premises) with the infrastructure teams.\nIdentify technical debt, bottlenecks and single points of failure in existing systems and recommend fixes.\nCheck that delivered work matches the approved design and raise deviations early. Business analysis\nElicit and document business, functional, non-functional and technical requirements (BRD, FRD, TRD, user stories).\nTrace every requirement to a design element and to a test case.\nRun workshops with business owners and translate their needs into clear technical deliverables\n.\nSupport impact assessment on scope, effort and timeline when requirements change. 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