Requirements :

- 5 to 7 years of experience in a Business Analyst role within an IT organization.

- Proven experience in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

- Expertise in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and its various approaches like Scrum, Agile, SAFe, and Waterfall.

- Strong involvement in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog grooming.

- Proficiency in UML and BPMN to create and interpret diagrams (use cases, activity, state diagrams).

- Ability to design and understand ER diagrams and perform data mapping.

- Hands-on experience with JSON and XML for integrations.

- Good understanding of REST and SOAP APIs and ability to interpret API documentation.

- Skilled in writing test cases, UAT scenarios, and defect triaging.

- Deep domain knowledge in industries such as BFSI, healthcare, e-commerce, etc.

- Ability to act as a project lead and take projects through the entire SDLC lifecycle.

- Ability to lead and mentor Business Analysis Trainees.

- Capable of conducting gap analysis, requirements traceability, and change management.

- Experience with user acceptance testing and collaboration with QA teams.

- Effective verbal and written communication skills.

- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously across different domains using JIRA.

- Advance knowledge of JIRA (burn down, velocity charts), and tools like Confluence, Azure DevOps, Trello, Asana.

- Familiarity with collaboration and diagramming tools like Lucidchart, Draw.io, Visio, Balsamiq, Miro, Whimsical.

- Exposure to wireframing/UI-UX tools such as Adobe XD and Figma.

- Testing tools knowledge including TestRail, Zephyr, Browserstack, and Jira QA plugins like Xray.

- Awareness of DevOps processes including CI/CD pipelines, release management, and basic containerization concepts.

- Understanding of version control tools like Git, GitHub, Bitbucket.

- Familiarity with ITSM tools like ServiceNow or Jira Service Management.

- Awareness of core AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, API Gateway.

- Basic understanding of database architecture and tools like MySQL Workbench, ER/Studio, or pgAdmin.

- Ability to push creative thinking beyond existing industry practices and client mindsets.