ArisGlobal - Business Analyst

About Aris Global:

ArisGlobal is a global company that provides integrated software solutions and consultancy services to assist life sciences organizations to maintain regulatory compliance, manage and mitigate risk and improve operational efficiency. We have over 20 years of industry experience and currently work with over 200 customers in the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and related industries. We employ over 1000 people in four offices across the globe and two development centers in India.

Our solutions cover Pharma covigilance & Safety, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Research and Medical Information and represent the most comprehensive range available in the industry. Each solution in the suite aims to be best in class; designed to meet the individual needs of corporate and regional departments. But when deployed together, they offer a unique opportunity to enable collaboration between departments, eliminating unnecessary duplication while reducing delays and improving compliance.

The flexible design of our software solutions make them both highly scalable and highly configurable, eliminating the need for costly customization. They can be deployed standalone or are easily integrated with each other and your existing key business systems. As a result they can be easily adapted to meet the needs of any situation and implemented in any size or type of company.

About the candidate:

Education & Experience : (State the minimum acceptable qualifications w.r.t. education, experience, certification)

- Bachelor's/Master's degree in computer or related engineering field

- Overall IT industry experience of 2-4 years

- Business/product/requirements analysis experience of at least 2 years(being responsible for authoring Functional Specifications of new requirements, and not just customer issues/tickets)

- Has demonstrable experience in delivering key artifacts in a timely manner and a good track record of customer satisfaction

- Ideally: Functional exposure / experience to pharmaceutical research and development domain.

- Ideally: Has software programming or QA experience

Skills : (Technical Skill / Non Technical Skills)

- Excellent communication skills - written & verbal

- Ability to deal with the inherent ambiguity related to requirements definition and analysis, and exercise good judgment in line with the company's overall goals

- Excellent analytical skills and creativity in proposing multiple options/solutions to a requirement, and select the best based on various priorities like time for development, usability, maintainability, etc

- Excellent abilities in working the Microsoft Office suite, UML Modeling Tools, low fidelity prototyping tools

- Ability to simultaneously work with multiple stakeholders across the organization

- Good understanding of software technologies and methodologies, especially any forms of Agile

- Good understanding of object-oriented approaches to software development.

Competencies : (Competencies requirement for the candidate to perform the task)

- Experience in working with customers to understand customer requirement and convert these into Requirements Documents.

- Experience in product or project management, including preparation of requirement documents, UI design and use case scenarios

- Understanding of product life cycle management

- Experience with managing development projects, including documentation review and testing activities.

Personal Traits: (Personality attributes required like initiative, perseverance, problem solving, critical thinking, etc.)

- Creates and maintains good working and professional environment.

- Positive Attitude

- Dependability & Accountability

- Proactive

- Motivator/Mentor

- Good Interpersonal Relations

- Good Communication

- Good comprehension, analytical and presentation skills

Roles & Responsibility : (Main areas of responsibility and roles to be performed)

Roles & Responsibility :

- Working with product owners/customers to understand product background & requirements

- Analyzing requirements and generating use cases, activity diagrams along with detailed functional specifications document or User Stories for assigned functionality

- Working with User Experience team to develop and refine prototypes

- Working with developers to ensure they understand all aspects of the requirements, including assisting with the logical data modeling

- Working with the QA team to ensure corresponding test cases are reviewed before development is completed

- Work with the product owners & project managers to assist in Agile development processes, such as verifying user stories- status per iteration, demos to product owners, etc