Lead Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst Banking / Financial Services

Experience

8+ years of relevant Business Analyst experience

Education

MBA – Mandatory

Domain

Banking / BFSI / Financial Services – Mandatory

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst with strong expertise in the Banking/Financial Services domain, combining business analysis, techno-functional solution analysis, and testing experience. The candidate should be capable of working closely with business stakeholders, Product Owners, technology teams, and QA teams across the complete SDLC and E2E delivery lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, document, and validate business and functional requirements.
• Prepare and maintain BRDs, Functional Specifications/FRDs, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, and RTMs.
• Work closely with Product Owners, business stakeholders, developers, QA, and technology teams.
• Perform techno-functional analysis and support solution design discussions.
• Drive requirements through the complete SDLC and E2E delivery lifecycle.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, refinement, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Define and validate functional, integration, regression, UAT, and E2E testing scenarios.
• Work with QA teams on both Manual and Automation Testing activities.
• Analyze test results, defects, business impact, and support defect resolution.
• Perform SQL-based data validation and analysis.
• Support API testing/integration validation where required.
• Manage stakeholder communication and ensure requirements are clearly understood and delivered.
• Identify process improvements and opportunities for automation/AI-driven enhancement

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Must-Have Skills

• 8+ years of relevant Business Analyst experience
• MBA – Mandatory
• Banking / BFSI / Financial Services domain experience – Mandatory
• Strong Manual + Automation Testing experience
• Strong SQL skills
• Agile / Scrum methodology
• Experience with BRD, Functional Specifications/FRD, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, and RTM
• Strong understanding of E2E Testing and SDLC
• Experience working with Product Owners and business stakeholders
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Techno-functional solution analysis experience

Good-to-Have Skills

• Power BI
• MySQL
• API Testing / REST API / Postman
• Selenium or other Automation Frameworks
• Performance Testing / JMeter
• BPMN / UML
• Jira / Confluence
• ServiceNow / ITIL
• Banking sub-domain expertise
• AI / GenAI / Intelligent Automation exposure

Preferred Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will be a techno-functional Senior Business Analyst with strong Banking/BFSI experience, who can independently handle requirements, stakeholder management, documentation, testing, SQL/data validation, and E2E delivery while working in an Agile environment.

Keywords: Business Analyst, Senior Business Analyst, Banking, BFSI, Financial Services, SQL, Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Agile, Scrum, BRD, FRD, Functional Specification, User Stories, RTM, E2E Testing, SDLC, Product Owner, Stakeholder Management, Techno-Functional, Solution Analysis, API Testing, Jira, Confluence.