Business Analyst
Washington, DC

Job Description

Business Analyst

Job Description

Responsibilities: Lead discovery sessions between product managers, technical managers, and user experience designers to gather requirements to build market-leading consumer web products. Facilitate meetings with business stakeholders and product management to help build project charters, business processes, and business process activities. Gather business requirements and break them down into relevant, accurate, detailed, and estimatable user stories that can be developed within an agile scrum framework. Write detailed Acceptance Criteria in the form of Behavior Driven Development scenarios for User Stories that can be understood by business stakeholders, software developers, and quality assurance analysts. Facilitate technical design meetings between different technical managers to help gather and document their technical solutions to the business problems for which you are defining requirements. Foster a high-level understanding of technical solutions so you can explain the solution to developers and Quality Assurance (QA) analysts. Participate in backlog grooming sessions with a scrum team to help groom user stories as well as answer the questions of the scrum team so they can accurately story point a user story. Perform detailed end to end User Acceptance Testing including front end manual testing as well as be able to write your own SQL queries to ensure data driven applications are functioning up to standard. Work closely with the product manager and technical manager to help create and shape release plans. Review unit tests and quality assurance test cases to ensure they cover all of the relevant business scenarios. Work with product managers to help define their key performance indicators (KPI) for new initiatives. Be able to analyze and collect KPI metrics and reporting to be delivered to the product manager so they can report on the progress and success of their products and initiatives to senior management. Provide input and feedback on product roadmaps. Work with UX designers to help refine prototypes and/or high-fidelity mockups based on new requirements you have gathered. Qualifications 3-5 years of Product, Systems, or Business analysis experience. Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, MIS, computer science, or another related technical field. This role is highly self-directed. Being capable of driving outcomes with very little supervision is a must. Software coding experience background is a plus. Occasionally, creating wireframes in a tool such as Visio is required for this role. Previous agile experience is required, scrum experience is preferred. Previous project management experience is a plus.

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