Sr. Business Analyst

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education
• At least 4 years of Information Technology experience

• 3+ years of background in software development roles (project management, software development, business analysis, QA)
• 3+ years of exp with deep understanding of software development methodologies
• 5+ years of exp in understanding agile software development frameworks (Scrum, Kanban etc.)
• 2+ years of exp in understanding software development practices
• Excellent organizational, communication and problem-solving skills
• Excellent English communication skills
• Familiarity with the tools supporting Agile software development (e.g. Jira, Azure)
• Experience working with stakeholders to gather, validate, and prioritize business and system requirements using Agile frameworks.
• Experience in system analysis to define scope and objectives based on best practices and client IT strategies.
• Experience in serve as a liaison between business owners and technical teams to translate business needs into epics, features, and user stories.
• Experience in creating and managing product backlogs, story maps, and business process flows.
• Experience to review and validate test plans, cases, and scripts to ensure requirements traceability and quality assurance.
• Experience in identify opportunities to improve business processes and provide recommendations based on industry standards.
• Experience in agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups.
• Experience in understanding high level business objectives and requirements and create product backlog, creates epics, features, user stories, story map, business process flows and prioritize with the business owners.
• Ensures all requirements are fulfilled by the technical design. Reviews the test plan, test cases and test scripts ensuring traceability to all requirements.
• Applies industry best practices to improve Client's current practices. Develops recommendations to improve processes or techniques.
• Determines the overall requirements gathering strategy and plans the requirements phase of the project including the work division strategy among the project BAs.
• Manages the progress and quality of the requirements gathering activities and adjusts the plan as necessary. Plans the risk response strategy to be used in monitoring and controlling all identified risks throughout the requirements process.
• Typically leads moderately complex projects and participates in larger, more complex initiatives. Solves complex technical and operational problems. Acts as a resource for teammates with less experience. May have people management responsibilities for a small team.