Agile Business Analyst (ABA)

Job details

Job Location: Remote (Anywhere Romania)

Effort Schedule: 8 Hours/Day (Flexible)

Business Hours: EET Timeframe

Language: English/Romanian

Customers Background: (EU, WorldWide)

Client Facing Role: Yes

Project Team Size: +10 members

Methodology: Agile/Scrum

Travel Required: No

Profile

Soft skills

• Relevant experience interacting directly with project stakeholders and end users
• A team player with a proven track record in supporting software change
• Able to multi-task, working on several in-flight projects at any one time
• Self-motivated, conscientious and focused on detail, with an ambition to deliver quality software solutions
• A quick learner and able to understand the client's requirements as well as to ask all the necessary questions to disambiguate his request
• Able to decode the clients request and to translate it from a technical language into a standard one
• Self-confident and willing to facilitate workshops designed for the teams involved in the process and to conduct the meetings in an efficient way
• Very good level of English
• French is highly appreciated
• At least 2 years of experience in Agile projects, especially digital projects (web or mobile applications)

Technical skills:

• Medium SQL knowledge for interrogating the database for the needed analysis or tests
• To be familiar with APIs, web services, and other application interfaces;
• Testing with Soap UI and postman
• Team player attitude with a sense of diplomacy;
• At ease with sharing and transferring knowledge to others (whether it be within the agile team or with stakeholders)
• Knowledge of digital trends, standards, and issues
• Practical knowledge of agile methodologies, especially with practices of writing and prioritizing backlog items (INVEST, DEEP, Value Stream Map, etc....)

Mission:

The Agile Business Analyst main function is to assist the Product Owner in the daily backlog management (analysis of business requirements in comparison with actual status, providing functional specification and needed diagrams and conceptual data model, writing of User Stories with acceptance criteria and test scenarios, validation of User Stories, sorting and priorization of backlog, functional tests on UAT).

Activities &Tasks:

• Provides Digital expertise
• Enlightens with digital experience the requests raised by Product Owner (best practices, consistency with market standards)
• Contributes on possible improvements in product backlog and of the current state of the product
• Supports Product Owner in Product Backlog priorization;
• Proposes priorization adjustment based on the perceived value
• Participates in lifecycle of Product Backlog;
• Ensures that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all
• Details each selected feature in the form of a User Story small enough to be implemented within one sprint, including acceptance criteria necessary for the team to understand and develop the user story
• Understands and prioritise Technical Stories suggested by the team as well as Defect Stories
• Clarify any User Story upon request from the Development Team during a Sprint
• Participates and contribute to Agile ceremonies with the Team
• Contributes to testing User Stories developed by the Agile team
• Accepts or refuses developed Stories (if the Product Owner has granted delegation)
• Evaluates the quality of previous releases and current release in production
• Checks the new release for regression issues