Senior Business Analyst & QA Lead - HCM - RibbitZ

About This Role

Our client RibbitZ is looking for Senior Business Analyst & QA Lead to work remotely. Job Description: Purpose of the Role: The Senior Business Analyst & QA Lead will support the delivery of a major enterprise talent management and internal mobility program. The role combines in-depth business analysis, requirements engineering, functional specification review, governance documentation, and quality assurance responsibilities.

You will translate complex, multi-document business requirements into clear, phased deliverables, maintain traceability across the project lifecycle, coordinate user acceptance testing, and provide strong project coordination support to keep multiple workstreams progressing smoothly.

Key Responsibilities Requirements Engineering & Documentation

• Analyse and synthesise requirements from BRDs, High-Level Requirements Documents (HLRDs), commercial proposals, and other source materials
• Extract, prioritise, and simplify requirements for phased and MVP delivery
• Review detailed functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, matching rules, governance controls, and integration specifications
• Maintain end-to-end traceability from source documents user stories test cases delivered functionality

Quality Assurance & User Acceptance Testing

• Design, review, and execute comprehensive end-to-end test scenarios and UAT scripts covering the core business process
• Coordinate and facilitate UAT sessions with business stakeholders
• Perform regression testing after each sprint or release
• Manage defect lifecycle: triage, prioritisation, retesting, and linkage back to original requirements
• Project Coordination & Governance Support Track tasks, milestones, dependencies, and deliverables across multiple interconnected workstreams using Jira/Confluence or similar tools
• Prepare clear status reports, meeting minutes, governance notes, and professional stakeholder communications
• Support governance and compliance activities, including RBAC/ABAC configuration, audit trail validation, conflict-of-interest checks, data privacy controls, and exception management workflows
• Assist in preparing evidence for milestone acceptances and hypercare / stabilisation support
• Proactively identify risks, gaps, and dependencies (integration readiness, data quality, open design decisions) and escalate appropriately

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 5–8 years of experience as a Business Analyst/QA on enterprise HCM, talent, or recruitment platform delivery projects
• Proven track record of analysing large, multi-document requirement sets and producing phased, prioritised deliverables
• Strong hands-on experience writing user stories, detailed acceptance criteria, process flows, and maintaining traceability matrices
• Hands-on QA experience: authoring test scenarios, coordinating UAT, managing defects, and regression testing.
• Excellent written English communication skills — able to produce concise, stakeholder-ready materials (emails, presentations, governance summaries)
• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum delivery practices and tools (Jira, Confluence)
• Solid understanding of modern talent processes: skills frameworks, matching logic, performance & potential assessment models, capacity/availability management, risk & impact scoring

Good To Have

• Previous work with Oracle Fusion HCM or similar enterprise HR platforms
• Exposure to AI-supported features (explainable matching, predictive risk scoring, automated action planning)
• Familiarity with UAE labour regulations, Emiratisation requirements, and data privacy/governance standards in regulated entities
• Arabic language proficiency (reading/writing)