Crum & Forster is a well-established insurance company providing specialty and standard commercial lines insurance products. They are seeking an experienced Product Business Analyst to support the design, delivery, and quality assurance of insurance products, collaborating with various teams to ensure business needs are met through effective testing and documentation.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with Product Owners, Underwriters to define business and functional requirements in the form of user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation
- Support backlog refinement, sprint planning ensuring requirements are clearly defined, prioritized, and ready for development
- Be an active participant in Agile ceremony meetings (stand up, refinement, prioritization, sprint planning) for assigned projects
- Identify, define, and document recommendations and requirements for new product solutions and enhancements
- Plan, coordinate, and execute user Acceptance Testing (UAT) for system enhancements and new product releases
- Translate business requirements into end-to-end UAT test scenarios covering underwriting, rating, policy issuance, endorsements, billing, and related workflows
- Coordinate testing efforts with business users and cross-functional teams
- Log, track, and validate resolution of defects, ensuring issues are resolved prior to release
- Provide clear communication on testing status, risks, and results
- Manage multiple initiatives and competing priorities while maintaining high quality and meeting delivery timelines
- Act as a liaison between business users and technical teams to ensure shared understanding of requirements and solutions
- Communicate expected value to users by iteration (sprint, monthly, quarterly) with a focus on increasing end user satisfaction
- Provide documentation, training materials, product demonstrations and training end users for all modified and new systems, as needed
Requirements:
- Experience working in insurance industry – familiarity with Executive lines preferred (Professional Liability, Management Liability and eRisk)
- A bachelors degree and 3+ years of experience
- Strong organizational and analytical skills
- High degree of accuracy and attention to detail
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to work independently with moderate supervision
- Ability to thrive in a fast paced, deadline driven environment
- Working knowledge of Scrum and Agile Software Development Methodology
- Working knowledge of JIRA/Confluence
- Working knowledge of product development architecture
- Proficiency in the use of analytic tools
- Ability to work with large teams
- Understanding of design quality standards