Business Analyst (Banking Domain – Deposits, Loans & Payments)

• Job Title: Business Analyst (Banking Domain – Deposits, Loans & Payments)
• Location: Tysons, VA (Onsite)-Locals preffered
• Duration: Long Term Contract
• Note: This is a W2 opportunity

Job Description:

• We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst with 5-10 years of experience in the Banking and Financial Services domain.
• The ideal candidate must possess strong expertise in Deposits, Loans, and Payments (ACH), along with hands-on experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to improve requirements gathering, documentation, software delivery, and testing processes.
• The candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, technology teams, and vendors to drive successful project delivery using Agile methodologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• • Elicit, analyze, and document business and functional requirements.
• • Conduct stakeholder interviews, workshops, and requirement gathering sessions.
• • Create and maintain Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs), process flows, use cases, and user stories.
• • Translate business requirements into well-defined Agile user stories and acceptance criteria.
• • Manage and prioritize product backlogs in collaboration with Product Owners.
• • Facilitate Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, reviews, and retrospectives.
• • Utilize AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or similar technologies to accelerate requirements gathering, documentation, analysis, and software delivery activities.
• • Implement AI-driven approaches to improve SDLC efficiency and reduce development effort.
• • Design and support AI-assisted testing strategies to optimize UAT efforts and improve defect detection.
• • Collaborate with development, QA, architecture, and business teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• • Track requirements, defects, and project progress using JIRA and Agile tools.
• • Support UAT planning, execution, defect triage, and production readiness activities.

• Required Skills
• Banking Domain Expertise
• • Strong experience in:
• o Deposits
• o Loans
• o ACH Payments
• o Banking Operations
• o Financial Services Products and Processes
• Business Analysis
• • Requirements elicitation and documentation
• • Business process modeling and process improvement
• • User story creation and backlog management
• • Gap analysis and stakeholder management
• • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Agile & Tools
• • Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies
• • JIRA, Confluence
• • User Story and Acceptance Criteria development
• • Sprint Planning and Backlog Grooming
• AI & Innovation
• • Strong knowledge and practical application of AI technologies and tools.
• • Experience leveraging AI to streamline:
• o Requirements gathering
• o Documentation creation
• o SDLC activities
• o Development support
• o Test case generation
• o UAT optimization
• • Ability to identify opportunities for AI adoption and process automation.

Qualifications

• • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
• • 5-10 years of Business Analysis experience.
• • Banking or Financial Services experience is mandatory.
• • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• • Excellent stakeholder management and presentation skills.
• • Experience working in cross-functional Agile teams.

• Preferred Qualifications
• • Experience with digital banking transformation initiatives.
• • Knowledge of Lending, Deposit Operations, ACH, and Payments modernization programs.
• • Experience using AI-powered productivity and SDLC tools.
• • CBAP, PMI-PBA, Scrum, or Agile certifications are a plus.

• Top 3 Skills
• 1. Expertise in Deposits, Loans, and Payments (ACH).
• 2. Strong knowledge and practical application of AI technologies and tools.
• 3. Ability to leverage AI to streamline requirements gathering, development activities, and UAT/testing efforts across the SDLC.

• Thanks & Regards,
• Vignesh
• [email protected]