Lead requirements elicitation and backlog management for Agile teams: write epics/stories, acceptance criteria, wireframes, use cases, and process flows. Facilitate grooming, support Product Owner, triage requests, and collaborate with QA on test plans to ensure deliverables are ready and testable.
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 the 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.
- Works with QA to develop and execute test plans based on appropriate coverage for the functionality being delivered.
Qualifications
- 10+ 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 in working as part of Agile teams
- Digitally savvy, with a passion for innovative and quality digital products
- 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
- Prior experience in handling RPA or process automation projects is a big plus
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
Minimum Compensation: USD 38,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 133,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full time employees.
This position is not available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post
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