Business Analyst

Job Duties

• Document product backlog items, stories/acceptance criteria and process flow diagrams.
• Create, review and execute test cases efficiently and document/manage defects to closure.
• Work with Cisco Release Management team to ensure specific areas of the system are tested and released on time, and meet or exceed the quality expectations of business partners.
• Co‑ordinate and help the PM on estimating the delivery timelines for projects.
• Identify and set up Pilot User Groups for UATs and conduct and facilitate UATs for major releases.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with business partners.
• Analyze functional and technical requirements in order to transform them into test plans and test cases.
• Facilitate requirements gathering sessions with Business Users.
• Communicate them to the delivery team in the form of BRDs/user stories.
• Take part in the daily stand‑ups and facilitate the functioning of the user stories for the sprints.
• Smoke‑test the product prior to Go‑Live.
• Work on developing the Concept Commit for the key projects and present it to the stakeholders and the Delivery team.
• Liaise with the delivery team for Product Demos, defect resolution and Product Delivery per timelines.
• Prepare and implement functional test case scenarios and test cases in MS Excel/Rally based on requirements/user stories.
• Be in charge of pre and post Go‑Live communications to the stakeholders and for providing appropriate adoption metrics.
• Conduct Office Hour sessions for user education; provide training and demos for the new features deployed.

• Requires a Bachelor’s Degree or foreign equivalent in Management, Business Administration, Management Information Systems or a related field.
• Requires one year of experience in a related field, such as an Analyst Intern, using SAP Business Objects, Rally, Tableau, Web Ex, Teradata and wireframes. Part‑time experience is acceptable.
• Requires travel/relocation to various unanticipated locations throughout the United States.

Xoriant Corporation, 1248 Reamwood Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089