Business Analyst (Life and Retirement ,Annuities Lines of Insurance)

1.Title : Business Analyst (Life and Retirement ,Annuities Lines of Insurance)
Location: Houston, TX ( ONSITE )
Position Type : C2C

Job Description :

Who are we looking for?
Looking for candidate having strong experience in BA ( Business Analyst) role . Working experience with client coordination and leading a team.

Technical Skills:
Should be good at Microsoft Office tools like Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint.
Having relevant experience in playing BA role in green fields development.
Creating a detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities, and solutions for a business
Understanding of Insurance business processes.
Experience in agile methodology
Requirements management / Requirement analysis / Eliciting requirements
Requirements organization / Translating and simplifying requirements
Planning and monitoring
Financial modelling
Variance Analysis
Assisting with the business case
Budgeting and forecasting
Experience on Life and Retirement, Annuities Lines of Insurance.
BA with Wealth Management background and Policies administration

Process Skills:
Should have worked on Agile Methodology in prior projects
Capable of analyzing requirements, creating Business requirements.
Ability to follow all the client process in short notice.
Sound experience in ticket management tools like Service Now
Capable of understanding software development life cycle
Capable of thinking and providing alternative solution
Peer review of intermediate artifacts
Should have followed standard SDLC development process

Behavioral Skills :
Should have good communication skills.
Resolve technical issues of projects and explore alternate designs
Participates as a team member and fosters teamwork by inter-group coordination within the modules of the project.
Effectively collaborates and communicates with the stakeholders and ensure client satisfaction
Train and coach members of project groups to ensure effective knowledge management activity.

Job responsibilities include:
o Project requirements gathering, analysis and management
o Creating Testing Cases & help in execution
o Provide domain training for project Team members
o Should be able to document Non-Functional Requirements; UAT Documentation; Review QA Artifacts; User Manual & Training Documentation; Case Study
o RFP Effort Estimation (Use Case Approach)
o Able to come up with Wire Frame / Screen Mockup/POC
o Should be good at Functional Architecture
o Should be able to perform Gap Analysis and / or Business Process Re-engineering (As-Is & To-Be Process Flow)
o Stakeholder Communication
o Adherence & Contribution to process improvements
o Prepare/Analyze/ Review system documentation
o Mentor/Train members of project groups as a part of knowledge management activity
o Ability to validate/prepare estimates for work in conjunction with the Lead
o Provide status updates to TL/PM/ as required
o Inter-group co-ordination within the modules of the project
o Provide data for Metrics collection
o Implementation and Usage of project related tools