Experienced Agile Business AnalystWe are seeking an experienced Agile business analyst. What we’re looking for is someone who is willing to learn and open to new ideas. This position focuses on designing and developing solutions for our new and existing projects.
This position requires a candidate with an enthusiastic and energetic personality who will be organized, inspirational and collaborative. You will be using agile methods to analyze, define, and document business requirements in order to deliver valuable software applications that meet stakeholder needs. You will collaborate with stakeholders and product teams to decompose large epic stories into features and user stories that can be understood and approved by members of the development team.
You will be engaged throughout the product development, testing, implementation phases to ensure requirements are clearly understood. The successful candidate must enjoy delivering initiatives and solving complex problems that enable business objectives in innovative ways, and balance stakeholder and team member expectations without being dogmatic in their approach.Required Skills:Business AnalystProduct OwnerMobile application/Web project experienceCSM or CSPOJob Duties:Participate in all phases of our Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodologyExperience translating business and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user storiesProficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with developmentExperience creating wireframes and prototypesExperience with large, multi-module systemsExpertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint)Exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customersExperience using Jira for agile software development and backlog managementGather, analyze, and document project technical and non-technical requirements via user storiesAssume responsibility for the overall application development lifecycle, including ensuring that project deliverables meet or exceed policies, procedures, and standardsPresent functional specifications to stakeholders for review/acceptance and compliance with requirementsWrite user stories that clearly describe the desired business outcome and contain binary Acceptance CriteriaWork closely with developers and testers to ensure requirements and functional designs are translated accurately into working technical designs and that test plans and scripts serve customer needs and business scenariosSuggest improvements or enhancements to processes and systems to increase customer satisfaction or improve productivitySupervise and advise the scrum team to meet software expectationsLead backlog refinement and organize meeting by defining, grooming, and prioritizing user storiesDecompose and document large initiatives into smaller features and user storiesFacilitate and lead meetings with various internal and external stakeholdersLead the testing of user stories to help the team meet the definition of done criteriaWork closely with the scrum team throughout the development processLead requirements gathering sessions and decompose epics and features into user storiesCoach various development teams to improve and mature their agile processesJob Requirements:4+ years of Business Analysis experience to include gathering requirements and developing user stories and product backlog grooming.