Business Analyst

Overview

Remote
Depends on Experience
Full Time

Skills

Business process
Research
Development testing
Requirements elicitation
IMPACT
Collaboration
Organized
Software development
Scrum
Waterfall
Business requirements
Prototyping
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Visio
Problem solving
Critical thinking
Communication
Functional requirements
Agile
Design
Business systems
DevOps
VersionOne
Usability testing
Testing
Product development
User stories
User guides
Instructional design
Presentations
Documentation
Product design
Personas
Information architecture
Wireframe
Image editing
iOS development
Android
Quality assurance
Writing
Test scripts
Management
Electronic commerce
Mobile applications
Web applications

Job Details

Job Description

Responsibilities
  • Work directly with client teams to discover and document business, process, and functional requirements on design driven initiatives.
  • Research, determine, and document personas, journey maps and key business objectives
  • Perform research and user testing through all phases of a project, including discovery, design, development, and post-implementation
  • Prepare and delivery concise, targeted presentations communicating research and user testing findings to client stakeholders to drive decisions
  • Document detailed requirements to enable the technical delivery ensuring requirements are decomposed into actionable tasks for the development team to deliver against.
  • Work with key stakeholders (eg. Client business owners and SMEs, partners, project managers, designers, developers, QA team, etc.) to ensure the solution meets all requirements and acceptance criteria.
  • Work closely with QA during the requirements gathering phase to ensure testing strategies & plans meet requirements.
  • Work closely with designers to ensure understanding of requirements and/or system functionality (to-be and current)
  • Review, identify, and analyze business needs and new requirements as part of an Agile and iterative process and work with the project manager and development teams to assess the impact.
Education & Experience Requirements
  • Masters Degree + 9 years experience or,
  • Bachelors Degree + 12 years experience or,
  • 15 years relevant experience
Candidate Requirements
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders to ensure requirements are defined, updated, organized, and easily understood by both technical and non-technical team members.
  • Experience working within software development life cycles (eg. Agile SCRUM and/or waterfall methodologies.)
  • Strong organizational and time management skills.
  • Ability to create and prioritize clear requirements documentation, including personas, journey maps, and process/user flows.
  • Ability to work closely with designers to create clickable prototypes.
  • Excellent presentation skills of prototypes to key stakeholders, including executives
  • Experience working with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Visio.
  • Working knowledge of Zoom, Teams, Google Hangouts, and other screen sharing applications.
  • Ability to work independently.
  • Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills.
Preferred:
  • Extensive experience extracting functional and non-functional requirements from client
  • Extensive experience writing Agile user stories.
  • Prior IT Technical and/or design driven digital product development experience as a business system analyst.
  • Prior experience with DevOps and VersionOne
  • Prior experience collaborating with designers and developers.
  • Prior experience with remote user testing method and process.
  • Prior experience working with and testing of Mobile and web-based applications
  • Prior experience documenting and formatting product development deliverables (eg. User Story documents, User Guides, training documentation and presentations.
  • Experience documenting and formatting product design deliverables such as personas, information architecture, user journeys and flows.
  • Basic wireframing and/or image editing skills related to visually communicating high level, low fidelity product direction.
  • Knowledgeable of web, iOS and Android designs, standards, features and functions.
  • Prior experience working with quality assurance, including writing and executing test scripts.
  • Prior Experience developing or managing eCommerce, mobile applications or web applications.
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