Technical Business Analyst

Encora

23h•Remote

About The Position

The Business Analyst will be responsible for the following. Duties and Responsibilities: Function as a bridge between the business and development team. Analyze business requirements and create user stories for the development team, collaborating with Product Owners, engineers, and quality assurance analysts. Ability to correlate business requirements with system requirements and capabilities. Assist the team in high-level project planning, review and ensure requirements are being met, and projects are successful. Work with development agile team members to get detailed acceptance criteria and ensure the digital asset being delivered meets that acceptance criteria for the customer. Assist the agile team with performing smoke testing Assist with inputs and drafting of documentation needed to support deployment of web application. Provide timely updates to stakeholder around challenges, successes and current status. managing back end integrations - DHISP, MDM, SCS API requirements - what is involved, how to test, what needs to be included Education and Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field 5+ years of experience in business analysis through Software Development Required Skills/Certifications: Self driven and motivated to function both in a team and as an individual contributor Function as a bridge between Business Product Owners and software development teams to achieve shared understanding of business goals. Gather and clearly document business and system requirements in user stories with a GHERKIN format with clear and testable acceptance criteria. Identify functional and non-functional requirements for digital applications Create user stories, features, and epics for gathered requirements Collaborate with engineers to implement and develop requirements Ability to take high level overview from business and break down into user stories with detailed criteria. Will require good communication with business to close any gaps for mutual understanding. Understand practical application of agile principles and practices as a part of the Software Development Life Cycle Collaborate with QA analysts to provide detailed acceptance criteria Assist Product Owners in tracking requirements to ensure they are met Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills Proactive in identifying opportunities for improvement, driven to take action on those opportunities Desired Skills/Certifications: Scrum Certification Physical Requirement(s): No Physical requirement is needed for this position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field
5+ years of experience in business analysis through Software Development
Self driven and motivated to function both in a team and as an individual contributor
Function as a bridge between Business Product Owners and software development teams to achieve shared understanding of business goals.
Gather and clearly document business and system requirements in user stories with a GHERKIN format with clear and testable acceptance criteria.
Identify functional and non-functional requirements for digital applications
Create user stories, features, and epics for gathered requirements
Collaborate with engineers to implement and develop requirements
Ability to take high level overview from business and break down into user stories with detailed criteria. Will require good communication with business to close any gaps for mutual understanding.
Understand practical application of agile principles and practices as a part of the Software Development Life Cycle
Collaborate with QA analysts to provide detailed acceptance criteria
Assist Product Owners in tracking requirements to ensure they are met
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
Proactive in identifying opportunities for improvement, driven to take action on those opportunities

Nice To Haves

Scrum Certification

Responsibilities

Function as a bridge between the business and development team.
Analyze business requirements and create user stories for the development team, collaborating with Product Owners, engineers, and quality assurance analysts.
Ability to correlate business requirements with system requirements and capabilities.
Assist the team in high-level project planning, review and ensure requirements are being met, and projects are successful.
Work with development agile team members to get detailed acceptance criteria and ensure the digital asset being delivered meets that acceptance criteria for the customer.
Assist the agile team with performing smoke testing
Assist with inputs and drafting of documentation needed to support deployment of web application.
Provide timely updates to stakeholder around challenges, successes and current status.
managing back end integrations - DHISP, MDM, SCS
API requirements - what is involved, how to test, what needs to be included