Business Analyst
First seen by Alion on Oct 29, 2026.
BUSINESS ANALYST
Key Responsibilities:
- Engage with business stakeholders to understand objectives, challenges, and requirements.
- Gather, analyse, document, and validate business and functional requirements.
- Prepare Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs), user stories, use cases, and process flows.
- Translate business requirements into clear specifications for development and implementation teams.
- Collaborate with product managers, developers, QA engineers, project managers, and business teams.
- Analyse existing business processes and identify opportunities for optimisation, automation, and improvement.
- Conduct gap analysis, impact assessments, and root-cause analysis to support business decisions.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and requirement prioritisation, where applicable.
- Support solution design, functional testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and defect resolution.
- Validate delivered solutions against business requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Prepare reports, dashboards, and analytical insights to support decision-making.
- Manage stakeholder communication, requirement changes, dependencies, and project documentation.
- Support implementation, deployment, and post-production enhancements.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 5 - 10 years of experience in Business Analysis, Functional Analysis, or a related role.
- Strong expertise in requirements gathering, documentation, stakeholder management, and process mapping.
- Experience preparing BRDs, FRDs, user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
- Strong analytical, logical reasoning, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Ability to translate business needs into functional and technical specifications.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional business and technology teams.
- Understanding of SDLC, Agile/Scrum, and software development processes.
- Experience with UAT, test scenarios, defect tracking, and solution validation.
- Strong communication, presentation, and documentation skills.
- Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Excel, Visio, or equivalent platforms.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in digital transformation, enterprise applications, SaaS products, or technology implementation projects.
- Knowledge of SQL, data analysis, reporting tools, or BI platforms.
- Exposure to APIs, system integrations, workflow automation, or data flows.
- Experience with process modelling, BPMN, or other business process documentation techniques.
- Domain experience in BFSI, IT, consulting, e-commerce, healthcare, or other relevant industries.
- Relevant bachelor's or master's degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, Finance, or Management.
Ideal Candidate Profile:
- Able to connect business objectives with technical solutions.
- Comfortable working with both business stakeholders and engineering teams.
- Strong at structured problem-solving, data interpretation, and process improvement.
- Capable of managing multiple requirements and driving projects towards successful delivery.
Skills
IT Business Analyst, IT Project Management