Business Analyst

Position overview

We are seeking a Business Analyst with travel domain experience to join our project team.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, document, model, and manage requirements through the full project lifecycle
• Write user stories and acceptance criteria in BDD format
• Take an active part in daily communications with stakeholders and other teams representatives
• Collect business requirements so as to formulate the problems to solve
• Collect and analyze data from various sources to form functional and non-functional requirements
• Create detailed requirements for a development team to implement
• Conduct business data analysis
• Setup requirement management process
• Run initial project phases: pre-sales, discovery, solution design

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience working as a business analyst
• Experience in the travel industry, specifically knowledge of GDS (mandatory)
• Basic theoretical knowledge of business analysis and requirements engineering
• Familiarity with REST API and data protocols/format (JSON, XML)
• Understanding of basic software architecture layers (database, server, client)
• Skills in analyzing, documenting, and modeling requirements
• Skills in managing requirements throughout the project, knowledge of the main models of the project’s life cycle
• Ability to skillfully convert vague and unstructured information into distinct requirements
• Experience in supporting sales during the RFI/RFP stage and discovery phase
• Experience with SCRUM/Agile development methodologies, ability to iterate quickly
• Personal discipline and experience with distributed teams
• Understanding business needs
• Good written and spoken English

Nice to have

• Experience in developing drafts of user interfaces
• Business processes modeling, knowledge of notations and methodologies
• Professional certification (CCBA, CBAP - IIBA, PMI-PBA - PMI, CPRE - IREB)