Sr. Business Analyst

Sr. Business Analyst

Experience: 8+ Years

Location: Irving, TX 3 days onsite/week

What is in it for you?

In this role, you will collaborate with Product Management and Business Operations to analyze and develop user stories and a product backlog for multiple products. You will participate in planning and design sessions and provide clarification on product requirements. You will work in partnership with the Product Owner/Manager to define and justify new product developments and projects.

Responsibilities:

• Work independently as a liaison between end-users, product management, and development to elicit, analyze, and document user requirements, translating them into user stories.

• Collaborate with the Product Owner and other stakeholders to ensure the health of the product backlog.

• Take ownership of team ceremonies including grooming/refinement, planning, pre-refinement, and others.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies, driving the discussion during sprint planning and user story refinement.

• Conduct gap analysis to identify solutions that are cost-effective and meet business requirements.

• Collaborate with the development team to ensure the design meets customer requirements.

• Provide timely answers to team questions during design, development, and Quality Assurance (QA) testing.

• Create MS SQL queries that retrieve application data and allow identification and triage of discrepancies.

• Field questions from stakeholders/end users during user acceptance testing, identify potential options to aid in the resolution process.

• Work with business owners and technical architects to set a strategic product direction and scope out project efforts.

Skills:

Mandatory skills

• 5 years or more years of relevant experience required.

• 2 years or more Agile (Scrum or XP) business analysis experience with user stories and backlogs required.

• Excellent business requirements elicitation, analysis, and documentation skills required.

• Experience working with tools like Azure DevOps (ADO) or similar for backlog management and story tracking required.

• Experience creating ADO dashboards for tracking project progress and monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Metrics required.

• Knowledge of SQL/Integration, Extract-Transform-Load (ETL), and User Interface (UI) preferred.

• Knowledge of test methodologies preferred.

Good to have skills:

• Experience in working on CI/CD Pipelines using GitLab.

• Relevant degree preferred.

Educational Qualifications:
Engineering Degree BE/ME/BTech/MTech/BSc/MSc.
Technical certification in multiple technologies is desirable.