SCRUM Analyst

SCRUM Analyst

(Jobs in Lansing, MI)

Lansing, MI

The Business Analyst will partner closely with Product Owners, business stakeholders, project leadership, and delivery teams to support discovery, business process analysis, user acceptance testing (UAT), training readiness, and Azure Dev Ops (ADO) backlog management activities. This role serves as a bridge between business operations and technical delivery teams to ensure solutions align with business needs and are successfully adopted by end users.

• Develop process maps, workflow diagrams, and business operating procedures.
• Identify process improvement opportunities and operational impacts.
• Identify and document manual processes, workarounds, and exception-handling procedures.
• Develop end-to-end business and system interaction diagrams.

• Partner with Product Owners to refine and maintain product backlogs.
• Assist in developing user stories and defining acceptance criteria by gathering, analyzing, and clarifying business requirements.
• Provide recommendations on requirements traceability and business validation.

• Coordinate UAT execution activities with business stakeholders.
• Track test execution, results, defects, and acceptance decisions.
• Support end-to-end business process testing and release readiness assessments.
• Assist with documenting UAT evidence and acceptance recommendations.

• Support training plans and end-user training materials.
• Create job aids, quick reference guides, and process documentation.
• Support stakeholder readiness, communication, and adoption activities.
• Facilitate training sessions and knowledge transfer activities.

• Support backlog traceability between requirements, testing, and implementation.
• Assist with ADO dashboards, reporting, queries, and documentation.

• Create and maintain project documentation, requirements artifacts, process, training and reference guide documentation.
• Document business rules, validation rules, and exception processing requirements.
• Support project compliance with organizational delivery methodologies and governance requirements.
• Maintain documentation repositories, knowledge bases, and project wikis.

• 8+ years of experience gathering requirements from users.
• 6+ years of experience designing technical and business requirement documentation.
• 4+ years of experience with Agile methodology / SCRUM processes and ceremonies.
• 3+ years of experience maintaining and organizing Epics, Stories, Backlogs, and Release Plans.

• Assignment duration:
  Initial 1-year contract with a possibility of extension based on performance and business needs.
• Hybrid Work Schedule (Non-Negotiable):
  No remote-only option.
• Required onsite days:
  Wednesdays and Thursdays.
• Remote eligible days:
  Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays.
• Candidates must be local to the Lansing, MI area (within 90 miles) at time of submission.

EOE Protected Veterans/Disability