Business Analyst

Nair Systems is currently looking for Business Analyst for our Qatar operations with the following terms & conditions.

COMPETENCIES, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

Educational Qualifications:

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering discipline

**Experience**:

- About 10-15 years of related experience of which a minimum of 5 to 7 years should be in a similar position / responsibility.

Technical Competencies:

- Knowledge in Business Analysis, CBAP
- Knowledge and skill in MS office, MS Project and other tools for requirements gathering
- Knowledge in different Testing tools
- Reporting and presentation
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Arabic (preferred)
- Computer literacy

Detailed Roles and Responsibilities:

- Understand and analyze Business requirements and enable preparation of functional specification.
- Conduct Requirements gathering workshop with required cross-functional stakeholders to capture functional, non-functional requirements, gaps/issues faced by end-users etc.
- Should support BA in requirements study into Functional Specification Document including all integration requirements.
- Translate business requirements into functional and technical requirement Documentation.
- Support Business Team to prepare business case and business requirement documentation.
- Serve as a technical liaison between Business & IT teams in embedding functional requirements and system specs.
- Prepare comprehensive test plan with details to cover direct and dependent functionalities including regression impact.
- Prepare SIT Test cases and Perform related SIT testing with IT before releasing it for UAT with Business users.
- Validate UAT test cases based on FSD and requirement traceability matrix.
- Support execution of test scripts with expected results for the System Integration Test (SIT) and User Acceptance Test (UAT)
- Liaison with Application vendor, end-users etc to test, verify and validate UAT issues closure.
- Ensure all UAT issues are fixed. Obtain user signoffs. Prepare release documents. Ensure the system Go Live is complete.
- Co-ordinate and/or conduct the Production Acceptance Testing (PAT) with the business users
- Creates flow diagrams, structure charts, and other types of system or process representations
- Manage changes to requirements and baseline through a change control process
- Utilizes standard processes, design and testing tools throughout project development life cycle
- Monitor execution against project plans, proactively identify risks and report exceptions, research and problem solve issues.
- Perform evaluation on vendor proposals to determine best suitable vendor to implement business requirements.
- Initiate Vendor engagement. Ensure Vendor contract is in place. Ensure Vendor has required details for system development.
- Prepare Project Plan, manage and monitor the plan for smooth execution of project.
- Prepare and maintain Budget tracking for the project.
- Communicate on regular basis to Project stakeholders on the project updates.
- Raise any risk items with respective stakeholder and ensure either risk is eliminated or risk mitigation is in place.
- Ensure proper project management documentation is followed in all phases of the project.
- Evaluate vendor proposals to determine best suitable vendor to implement business requirements.
- Prepare documentation to shortlist vendors by performing vendor scoring, technical and financial scoring. Ensure proposals cover all stated requirements in RFP. Provide clarification to Admin/Business/Audit on any related item in Evaluation.
- Verify if all business requirements are being catered in the vendor proposals.
- Ensure proper approvals are in place for execution of the project.
- Prepare Budget tracking which includes Allocated budget for Hardware/Software/Licenses etc.
- Track Budget over the period of execution of the project by maintaining track of LPOs issued, Invoices paid and Pending Invoices.
- Communicate timely escalation if there is Budget overrun.
- Prepare, Manage and Monitor Project Plan. Share the plan with all project stakeholders.
- Follow Project Management procedure in all phases of the project.

Role Objective

Terms and conditions
Joining time frame: 2 weeks (maximum 1 month)

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Doha: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)