Business Analyst

Job Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Experience with Agile methodology, writing user stories, managing scrum calls, prioritizing backlog, etc.
• Elicit functional and non-functional requirements and document in the form of epic, stories, wireframes, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop use cases and process flows and ensure documentation conforms to SLC/PMO standards.
• Facilitate the ongoing backlog grooming process, supporting the Product Owner to define value, priority, and select scope for upcoming releases and sprints.
• Collaborate with Product Owner, Business Users, and Technical Team to write and elaborate user stories to include acceptance criteria and business rules per the team’s “Definition of Ready”
• Ensure stories meet quality criteria; for example: unambiguous, complete, consistent, deterministic, and testable.
• Ensure stories are "Ready" for upcoming sprints.
• Establish a requirements management strategy for the team, which describes process for elicitation, documentation standards and format, tools, meeting cadence, backlog grooming process, review & approval process, change process, and communications processes.
• Analyze new requests from stakeholders and determine if the request is a defect, new story, a modification to an existing story, or already covered in an existing story. Update the backlog and stories as appropriate.
• Maintain an overall view and perspective on the “big picture” and understanding how the parts of the project fit together to provide the overall solution.
• Works with QA to develop and execute test plans based on appropriate coverage for the functionality being delivered.
• Clarify questions/defects during testing process to ensure project requirements are met: Identify and assess potential scope creep

REQUIRED SKILLS

• 7+ years of related experience as IT or Business Analysis that includes researching, testing, documenting and/or maintaining applications or using applications in a business setting
• Experience working as part of Agile teams
• Experience as a scrum master would be a plus
• Digitally savvy, with a passion for innovative and quality digital products
• Excellent communication skills; both oral and written
• Skilled in various business analysis techniques including; feature decomposition, context diagrams, stakeholder analysis, state diagrams, wireframes, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, use cases, business process definition, user stories, and backlog management.
• Excellent communication skills; both oral and written
• Scrum Master or Product Owner certification a plus
• Business Analysis Certification from IIBA or PMI a plus
• Telecommunications  background is a big plus

REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Prior IT Business Analysis experience or experience as a user of IT applications with specific business knowledge with Web and Mobile App development is desirable.
• Prior experience with software delivery, project management, requirements gathering desired.