Senior Business Analyst
Mphasis · New York, United States · 2 days ago
On-siteAnalyst$60k–$110k/yrFull-time
About the role
We are seeking a detail-oriented and highly organized Business Analyst with approximately 5 years of professional experience to support our product, development, and operations teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with business stakeholders to elicit, clarify, and document business requirements.
- Develop clear and comprehensive user stories, acceptance criteria, and other project documentation.
- Translate business needs into structured documentation that can be easily understood by development teams.
- Maintain and update requirement artifacts throughout the project lifecycle.
- Create flowcharts, swimlane diagrams, and process maps using tools like Visio, Lucidchart, Analyze current-state processes and help design future-state workflows.
- Identify gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for process improvement.
- Serve as the primary point of contact between business units and the development team.
- Ensure developers have clear, timely, and accurate information to begin and complete work.
- Participate in requirement reviews, grooming sessions, and sprint planning (if Agile).
- Provide clarifications to the dev team throughout development cycles.
- Assist with task tracking, follow-ups, documentation control, and milestone updates.
- Support project leads (including Mehwish and Christa) in tracking progress, risks, decisions, and dependencies.
- Ensure timely communication and updates across teams.
- Assist with test case review, UAT coordination, and validating that delivered work meets documented requirements.
- Help organize and document testing outcomes, issues, and resolutions.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 4–6 years of experience as a Business Analyst in IT or product environments.
- Strong proficiency in business documentation, including BRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specs.
- Experience with process flows, workflow diagrams, and visual documentation.
- Excellent communication and coordination skills; able to interact with both business and technical teams.
- Strong organizational abilities with attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities independently.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience working with Agile teams.
- Some familiarity with technical concepts (APIs, integrations, data flows).
- Experience supporting project managers or assisting with project tracking.
- Ability to facilitate workshops, requirement sessions, or cross-functional meetings.
Personality & Working Style
- Proactive, structured, dependable.
- Strong follow-through and accountability.
- Comfortable taking administrative/documentation workload off senior team members.
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing priorities.