Sr. Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Interact with the project team, multiple other project teams, and clients to perform functional & technical requirements analysis, documentation, and validation for new and existing software development.
• Create new or update existing user stories, acceptance criteria, assist in the gathering meeting notes, preparation of weekly status reports and presenting status updates to the team and client.
• As needed, the analyst will help facilitate team and stakeholder discussions, remove team impediments, and coordinate with other scrum teams to deliver high quality products.

Required Skills

• Experience/understanding for developing requirements documentation such as: User Stories, System Requirements, Use Cases and Acceptance Criteria
• Ability to analyze user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
• Knowledge of Software Development Agile Frameworks, including Scaled Agile, Scrum and Kanban
• Ability to conduct necessary research and provide indepth analysis to resolve production issues
• Ability to maintain ownership of tasks until resolution, manage competing priorities, and provide timely solutions to the team, while remaining flexible with continually changing priorities
• Ability to serve as the liaison between the project manager, development team, and client to clarify requirements, confirm system behavior, delegate issues & support request assignments and escalate issues to the Project Manager/Scrum Lead
• Understanding of Screen and User Interface designs (wireframes), Front End Test Documentation (Sprint Review), User Guides/Online Help documentation, Release Notes, End User Communication and Training materials
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite: Word, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint

Preferred Skills

• Ability to learn quickly, selfstarter and detail oriented
• Ability to analyze disparate systems to identify gaps and potential impacts
• Ability to develop business workflows
• Experience using Jira and Confluence for requirements documentation
• Experience working with stakeholders and product owner to define the target state of a system and identify/document gap for software applications
• Prior experience on a successful scrum team, including experience with sprint ceremonies such as sprint, planning, backlog refinement, demos, and retrospectives
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) with a demonstrated ability to develop presentation materials, lead and facilitate team meetings sessions
• Experience/understanding of SQL and completing database queries to support analysis
• Experience using Atlassian tools (JIRA + Confluence) or similar products