Position: Mainframe Business Analyst (BA)
Company: luxoft
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

Project Description:
 
At the interface between technology and business, we convince with our know-how, well-founded methodology and pleasure in success. As a reliable partner to our renowned customers, we support them in planning, designing and implementing the desired innovations. Together with the customer, we deliver top performance!

For one of our Client in the Insurance Segment, we are searching for a Mainframe Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

'As Mainframe Business Analyst, you will:
- Work collaboratively with clients and stakeholders - both external and internal to the company - to research and elicit, analyze, validate and document business requirements, and to ensure that those requirements clearly reflect true business needs, correctly representing all stakeholders.
- Translate business needs into system/ application requirements and project components to help determine solutions to business problems.
- Assist team members in producing functional requirements for tool development.
- Proactively identify and manage changes to requirements and identify risks for the company’s clients.
- Effectively manage client’s expectations.
- Apply industry and information technology expertise to support proposals, feasibility studies, implementations and new business development.
- Perform quality assurance during and after implementation
- Constantly be on the lookout for ways to improve monitoring, discover issues and deliver better value to the customer (e.g. automation)
- Develop and execute of independent verification and validation test scripts and plans, as well as production-based acceptance testing
- Elicitate, organize, translate, analyze and prioritize of both business level and functional requirements

Mandatory Skills Description:

- University degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
- Hands-on experience with Atlassian toolset; SiteCore; Mainframe: CICS, Cobol, DB2, IMS/DC, PL/I, etc. Optional: Quadient Inspire
- 3 or more years of experience in business analysis
- Proven experience in eliciting requirements and testing
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical writing skills
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
- Familiar with agile methodology and concepts (Scrum, Kanban etc.)
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a good command of written and spoken English

Nice-to-Have Skills:

- Insurance industry knowhow (portfolio management, claims, mortgage)
- Command of German"