What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Business Analyst position at AXA XL Ltd?
Senior Business Analyst
Hartford, CT | Stamford, CT | USA
We invent the new to help the world move forward. Combining powerful analytics and deeper insights with bigger ideas and innovative solutions, we free up our clients’ potential, thereby fulfilling our own. Take it seriously. Make it fun. Know it matters.
Senior Business Analysts bridge the gap between business and IT by being able to communicate effectively with all stakeholders. The Senior Business Analysts will be responsible for supporting an application or multiple applications within a Delivery Team and her / his core responsibilities include eliciting and documenting both business, functional, non-functional and technical requirements, supporting quality assurance testing and UAT, and triaging incoming issues, defects, and enhancement requests. Senior Business Analysts will also provide senior level support of projects that impact the application(s) s / he supports.
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What will your essential responsibilities include?
- Elicit, analyze and document complex business requirements : collaborate with stakeholders to understand their needs, translate them into clear and concise user stories and ensure that requirements are well defined, prioritized and aligned with project goals.
- Facilitate agile ceremonies and workshops : lead requirements gathering sessions, backlog refinement meetings and other agile ceremonies to foster collaboration, drive consensus and ensure that the team has a shared understanding of the product vision and roadmap.
- Manage and groom the product backlog : With the business / product owners, prioritize user stories based on business value, dependencies and technical feasibility and continuously refine the backlog to ensure that it remains up to date and aligned with the project needs
- Collaborate with development teams and subject matter experts : work closely with developers, testers and other team members to understand technical constraints, provide clarification on requirements and ensure that solutions meet the defined acceptance criteria.
- Build and maintain outstanding stakeholder relationships at all levels : effectively communicate project progress, risks and issues. Manage stakeholder expectations and address concerns.
The Senior Business Analyst reports to the Business Analyst Lead.
