Business Analyst​/PO

Experienced Agile Business Analyst

We 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 Analyst
• Product Owner
• Mobile application/Web project experience
• CSM or CSPO

Job Duties:

• Participate in all phases of our Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology
• Experience translating business and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories
• Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development
• Experience creating wireframes and prototypes
• Experience with large, multi-module systems
• Expertise 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 customers
• Experience using Jira for agile software development and backlog management
• Gather, analyze, and document project technical and non-technical requirements via user stories
• Assume responsibility for the overall application development lifecycle, including ensuring that project deliverables meet or exceed policies, procedures, and standards
• Present functional specifications to stakeholders for review/acceptance and compliance with requirements
• Write user stories that clearly describe the desired business outcome and contain binary Acceptance Criteria
• Work 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 scenarios
• Suggest improvements or enhancements to processes and systems to increase customer satisfaction or improve productivity
• Supervise and advise the scrum team to meet software expectations
• Lead backlog refinement and organize meeting by defining, grooming, and prioritizing user stories
• Decompose and document large initiatives into smaller features and user stories
• Facilitate and lead meetings with various internal and external stakeholders
• Lead the testing of user stories to help the team meet the definition of done criteria
• Work closely with the scrum team throughout the development process
• Lead requirements gathering sessions and decompose epics and features into user stories
• Coach various development teams to improve and mature their agile processes

Job Requirements:

• 4+ years of Business Analysis experience to include gathering requirements and developing user stories and product backlog grooming.