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Next Level Business Services, Inc. Sr. Business Analyst in Atlanta, Georgia
The ideal candidate works closely with the domain product and development teams to ensure that the team clearly understands the required functionality to meet market needs.
Collaborates with product, project and development stakeholders and teams, gathering requirements, coordinating dependencies, and identifying risks and opportunities
Conducts research, performs studies to obtain data; and analyzes problems to advise on or recommend solutions, utilizing knowledge of theory, principles
Represents the customer to the development team
Owns the scope of the project, works with Business sponsors, Sponsor users, identifies personas, defines the minimum viable product (MVP), and defines hypotheses
Manages and makes visible the product backlog, or the prioritized list of requirements for future product development
Defines, writes, and ranks the user stories that direct the design and development work
Prioritizes by iterating the order of items in the product backlog
Being available to the development team to answer any questions team members have regarding the customers needs and the customers views of how the team is implementing a product feature
Collaborates with designers on the overall user experience, attends playbacks with sponsor users and stakeholders, and collaborates through user testing.
Accepts user stories; that is, decides when a user story has delivered the outcome.
Decides when to go to production and owns or collaborates on the "Go To Market" plan
Works with the Squad Lead to execute the biweekly Iteration Planning Meeting
Leads story grooming sessions or requirements clarifications sessions
Translates product strategy into requirement documents, using cases and process flows
Works with application support and development team to fix software bugs and escalated issues
Ability to write necessary stories to deliver functionality, such as user interaction stories, or system integration stories or API level stories
Documents, analyzes and proposes process changes or re-engineering approaches based on an understanding of technical problems and solutions as they relate to current and future state business and technical environments
Quals-- Must be able to prioritize work on multiple project teams, with the overall goal of satisfying all deployment needs and effectively supporting diverse clients.
Owns the scope of the project, works with Business sponsors, Sponsor users, identifies personas, defines the minimum viable product (MVP), and defines hypotheses.
Managing and making visible the product backlog, or the prioritized list of requirements for future product development
Defines, writes, and ranks the user stories that direct the design and development work.
Prioritizing and iterating the order of items in the product backlog
Being available to the development team to answer any questions team members have regarding the customers needs and the customers views of how the team is implementing a product feature
Collaborates with designers on the overall user experience, attends playbacks with sponsor users and stakeholders, and collaborates through user testing.
Accepts user stories; that is, decides when a user story has delivered the outcome.
Decides when to go to production and owns or collaborates on the "Go To Market" plan
Works with the Squad Lead to execute the biweekly Iteration Planning Meeting"
Strong experience in discovery, identification, and documentation of APIs
Ability to work with multiple IT and business teams to gather and document API requirements
Experience developing requirements and test scenarios for automated test suites for APIs
Demonstrated experience with Agile or other rapid application development methods
3 - 5 years of project coordination and previous airline business experience is preferred
Must possess the technical expertise to apply relevant technical processes to appropriate business n eds
Must be able to effectively and professionally communicate with management, staff and customers as well as demonstrate sound judgment/reasoning skills
Ability to work independently to achieve exceptional results
Candidate must have the ability to deliver quality work on time and translate planning into action by following applicable established procedures or methodologies
Must also have the ability to proactively monitor and control task status by collecting and analyzing task data to anticipate and address barriers
Strong communication, interpersonal skills, customer service skills, customer focus
Coaches and mentors team members on business processes and in testing.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. NLB is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, contact HR department by sending an e-mail to notifications@nlbservices.com.