Senior Business Analyst

Location: Geneva · Contract: Permanent · Assignment: long term · Rate: 100% · Start: February 2027

For one of our clients based in Geneva, we are looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst.

Context

As part of an investment programme dedicated to the evolution of a critical business information system, the team responsible for this portfolio wishes to strengthen its business analysis capabilities.

This evolution aims to meet the increase in the number of delivery projects and to ensure the team’s ability to support their definition, assessment and implementation.

Your missions

• Ensure that the solution meets functional requirements and manage any changes

• Describe features in the form of user stories and acceptance criteria, and prioritise them in a backlog

• Facilitate or participate in workshops with various stakeholders using agile techniques and collective intelligence

• Elicit business needs to refine functional and non-functional requirements

• Define the testing strategy and organisation

• Design and execute tests using appropriate tools and techniques, in compliance with agreed standards (e.g. Xray)

• Manage the execution of test cases by stakeholders

• Handle anomalies from detection to validation of their correction

• Ensure test reporting and the drafting of test reports

• Interact with all stakeholders to take into account technical or organisational needs and constraints

Education

• HES degree, computer science degree, EPF engineering diploma or federal diploma

Essential skills

• 8 years or more experience in functional and business analysis of IT projects

• Elicitation of needs and prioritisation of client expectations

• Significant experience in specifying business and system requirements as user stories

• 3 years or more experience within Agile/Scrum teams

• Development and implementation of testing strategies

• Management of user acceptance testing (UAT) and anomaly tracking

• Ability to communicate with the client, maintain a climate of trust, listen to their needs and respond appropriately by adapting communication to the interlocutor

• Ability to quickly acquire skills on both functional issues (ergonomic improvements) and business issues (regulatory changes)

• Ability to assess the level of criticality of a situation and make necessary decisions or refer to the project manager

• Ability to negotiate and simplify features for multiple stakeholders

Desirable skills

• Facilitation of collaborative workshops using collective intelligence techniques

• Ability to communicate and report to senior levels of the organisation

• Experience with backlog management tools (e.g. Jira)

• Experience with test planning and execution tools (e.g. Xray)

• Ability to integrate, work in a team, collaborate and unite multidisciplinary teams in a matrix environment

A plus

• Certifications in Business Analysis or testing (e.g. CBAP, ISTQB, IIBA)

• Knowledge of an agile method

• Successful experience in test automation

Languages

• Fluent in French, both spoken and written

• Knowledge of German or Swiss German appreciated

Personal qualities

• Ability to quickly acquire skills in a functional domain

• Listening, analytical and synthesis skills

• Ease of working in a team and sharing knowledge

• Aptitude to collaborate and communicate with various interlocutors: business representatives, integrators, developers, functional and solution architects

• Ability to explain complex concepts simply

• Leadership, commitment and dynamism

• Capacity for innovation and adaptability

• Constructive attitude towards change

• Ability to manage conflicts and crises

• Ability to manage several projects or activities simultaneously

• Autonomy and sense of initiative