Job description
Encora is looking for a Business Analyst that will be responsible for the following:
DutiesandResponsibilities:
- 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.
- 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 lead business integrator around challenges, successes and current status.
EducationandExperience:
- 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
- Identify functional and non-functional requirements for digital applications
- Create user stories and epics for gathered requirements
- Collaborate with engineers to implement 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
DesiredSkills/Certifications: Scrum Certification
Physical Requirement(s): No Physical requirement is needed for thisposition.
Min.CitizenshipStatus Required: Citizen
Location: United States (Remote, EST)
