Business Analyst/QA Engineer

Position: Business Analyst / QA Engineer

Location: Bangalore, India

Hours: Full Time

Years of Experience: 5+ years

Education: Bachelor’s / Master’s Degree in Software Engineering or Information Technology or Similar

Travel: Yes

Relocation: Yes

Working hours: 2:00pm to 11:00pm (IST)

AVANA Capital is an AI driven small business lending and investment platform company that has an immediate full-time opportunity for a “Business Analyst” combined with QA expertise who will help our company advancing our technology products with best-in-class technical solutions in Agile development environment. Come join our mission and make your mark with our outstanding people.

We believe our families are the most important people in our lives. We believe that our work should speak for itself, and we believe that everyone should be given a chance to succeed and grow. We also believe there is no substitute for hard work and that when we falter, we get up and do it again. We come to work with one singular goal and that is to create jobs and provide clean energy in America. We believe in talking less and executing as per our client’s timeline. Do you see yourself thriving in an entrepreneurial culture and spending time with disciplined business warriors? If so, then we invite you to read on.

The ideal candidate would deeply understand AVANA’s small business lending platform, LendThrive, contribute significantly through business analysis and product testing to ensure that LendThrive technology product is topnotch. The opportunity becomes an integral part of creating impactful strides for customer communities. The individual accomplishes significantly by collaborating with business and technology teams, documenting business requirements, contributing to creating processes and contributing to developing LendThrive technology platform. The desired outcome from these actions intersects with:

• Enabling LendThrive platform to become the originations and loan applications platform for AVANA
• Significantly contributing to aid borrowers with capital through LendThrive platform
• Upgrading LendThrive platform with ground-breaking business functions and workflows
• And significant impact on other future AVANA Companies’ products

Avana Capital is looking for a talented and dynamic Business Analyst combined with QA technical skills to join the Product Engineering and Technology team. You will have a diverse set of responsibilities primarily focused on, supporting the delivery of best-in-class technology platforms, leading system testing strategy, supporting the long and short-term planning and execution of our product platforms, and supporting key IT program initiatives related to product innovation. This role requires strong business acumen, expert communication skills, and a proven ability to realize, clearly communicate a perspective, and exercise influence to drive action in a cross-functional environment.

• Perform deep technical analysis, understand business requirements and gap analysis to change business needs into significant IT products
• Collaborate cross‐functionally to ensure consistent reporting standards and processes and support project management team to keep projects on track and moving toward to achieve business goals
• Proactively identify trends, development risks, and opportunities within the business
• Responsible for documenting the functional requirement specifications and business requirement document along with the USE CASES for all the products
• Responsible for documenting all the Change Requests and Enhancements of any product in the company
• Responsible for creating test case specifications and test scenarios by working closely with the Product Managers and IT Delivery Manager; and own thorough end to end testing (Integration Testing and UAT) of the products along with measures to automate tests
• Document processes, best practices, and requirements to support our deliverables and initiatives, and develop practice of best practices to effectively solve business problems
• Assist in developing and delivering presentations / demos to engage with key stakeholders to drive business awareness and effective discussions
• Assess risks and impacts of business requirements and process changes across platforms and make change management recommendations
• Act as a bridge between Business and Technical teams

• Changes in business may require alterations to this Job Description

• BE/BTech in Information Systems / Engineering or Masters in Computer Applications or relevant education from a reputed institution with minimum 5 years of business analysis along with testing experience
• Experience with Jira or other project management tools would be a significant plus
• Experience in Banking/Non-Banking Financial Services organization would be a significant plus
• Strong collaboration and facilitation skills to uncover and solve business problems and develop recommendations
• Excellent verbal, written, & presentation skills with the ability to design and develop innovative and compelling content
• Excellent organizational skills and must be able to work independently with limited guidance
• Demonstrated ability to juggle and prioritize a high-volume workload while handling details accurately, in a timely manner, and under pressure
• Strong and highly effective communication skills in both written and verbal and the ability to transform business requirements into actionable plans
• Extremely Pro-active, Detail Oriented, Results-focused, and Strong analytical skills
• Attention to detail and quality, and the ability to work well in and across teams

The interview process is as follows:

• Phone Screen by a Team Manager
• Online Psychometric Assessment
• Online Technical Assessment(s)
• Technical Interview by Product Expert
• Final Interview by the Country General Manager

AVANA Companies is focused on small businesses in America along with regulated CUSO, Asset Management Firm and a FDIC Bank. Together with our growing mix of accredited investors, family offices, and institutional investors, we provide financing for permanent real estate mortgage loans under the United States SBA program, construction loans, small balance unsecured loans and bridge loans.

At AVANA Companies, we specialize in lending to specific niche industries that we’re highly knowledgeable in, such as hospitality, elderly care facilities, and healthcare facilities, because it enables us to provide the best possible service for our borrowers and minimize risk for our investors. Our company has launched two platforms recently – a small business lending platform (LendThrive™) that will drive online originations for small balance lending on working capital, equipment, inventory and accounts receivable. Our second platform (EqualSeat™) is to provide access to retail investors to co-invest with institutional investors in SME loans. Join us and become part of an organization of higher impact.