Altisource - Sr Business Analyst

Altisource™ is a high energy, rapidly growing technology and services provider that is changing the way companies conduct business.

Altisource’s Software and Technology segment is responsible for incubating and launching market disruptive solutions that apply our core technologies and intellectual property including business process optimization platforms, advanced decision models, consumer sciences and business intelligence systems into market-leading software applications and services.

This is an opportunity to become a critical member of one of Altisource’s incubated software technology start-up organizations and to participate in the development and launch of a new product concept. We are looking for top candidates who are passionate about creating great software that delivers significant market value. This is the opportunity to work among some of the industry’s top names working on some of the most challenging technical problems.

Reporting directly to the Manager, Product Management the Business Analyst will be responsible for soliciting, documenting and communicating requirements of Altisource’s software products to satisfy a wide variety of client needs. This role will be an important part of Product Management team to define software products that will significantly transform the industries in which we operate.

Responsibilities:

- Create and maintain the strategic partnership between Business needs and Technology delivery in an agile development environment

- Facilitate conversations between stakeholders, quality assurance / testing teams, customers, subject matter experts (SMEs) and software developers in an incremental, iterative fast-paced product development environment and reducing the reliance on extensive documentation and reducing the length of the feedback loop in product development projects

- Responsible for developing business requirements and related business rules based on Business Group or external client needs

- Work closely with product manager, Business Partner and Business Subject Matter Expert(s) in the definition, testing, training, implementation, and support of functional requirements

- Identify requirements via industry standard analysis techniques such as data flow modeling, workflow analysis, and functional decomposition analysis

- Solicit requirements through interviews, workshops, and/or existing systems documentation or procedures

- The Analyst knows what the right amount of requirement documentation to gather for a development lifecycle or iteration

- In general, the role will include the creation/revision of the following analysis artifacts and deliverables: Process Maps, Business Requirements, Business Rules, User Stories, User Flows, Acceptance Tests

Key Result Areas:

- Author detailed product requirement specifications for engineering team in an agile development environment

- Articulate requirements clearly in user stories and wireframe design

- Participate daily stand up and clarify requirements for engineering team

- Solicit requirements through interviews, workshops, and/or existing systems documentation or procedures

Qualifications & Experience:

- This position requires 4+ years business analyzing experience in the enterprise software development industry, at least 2 of which is in a client/server environment. Preference will be given to candidates with considerable experience in technologies that manage complex business processes.

- BA/BS Degree, in Computer Science, or technology related field from an accredited institution

- Master’s degree in Business Administration is an added advantage

- Candidates with industry domain knowledge in financial service are preferred, but not necessary

- Strong verbal and written communication skills. Must be able to communicate effectively and confidently with users, team members and management

- Must be flexible and willing to undertake a wide variety of challenging tasks

- Strong facilitation skills. Must be able to elicit requirements from various personalities across organizational and geographical boundaries

- Understanding the technical designs as well as the specifications

- Familiar with software development process such as agile development methodology and tasks, roles involved in the process

- Ability to analyze and document complex business processes and deliver functional requirements like GUI, screen and interface designs

- Understands Internet and client/server architectures

- Possesses working knowledge of HTML, SQL, and database design

- Advanced skills in Ms Word, Outlook, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint

Request you to share your profile with Ms.Brahmotri Jena at brahmotri.jena@altisource.com