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BUSINESS ANALYST
TECHNICAL BUSINESS ANALYST
SDLC
AGILE
USER STORIES
REQUIREMENTS CREATION
JIRA

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Job Description

Title: Business Analyst
Location: Remote

Ekman Associates is a management consulting firm that specializes in developing business, digital, and technology strategy, delivering solutions, and addressing human resource demands.

Summary:
The Business Analyst will be responsible for gathering the requirements from key business users, documenting the requirements, and ensuring that the software developed meets the requirements. This role requires experience in working with business owners and project managers alike to plan, analyze and highlight risks and issues, and to define accurate, meaningful and measurable business cases and define acceptance criteria. This role will work with design, dev and QA teams to ensure the requirements are clearly understood. Must be able to begin work 7:00 am PST. a few days a week.

Responsibilities:

Define the requirements (user stories) to build new functionality using, amongst others, BDD/Gherkin Style acceptance criteria.
Perform detailed technical analysis & scoping of activities required to develop a new application capability.
Attend workshop/agile ceremony with the development team to answer questions and resolve ambiguities that might rise during development.
Ownership of requirements to be built by the team, presentation of the stories and journeys and facilitation of requirements workshops.
Create application documentation for end-users and technical staff as needed including wireframes when needed.
Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal.
Develop a thorough understanding of the business need and related business processes.
Work with other Client and teams to understand and define end to end or integration requirements across more than one project team and systems as well as other systems within the client as required.
Work with the QA and the project team to validate the acceptance criteria and modify and split requirements as appropriate and participate in estimation and iteration planning sessions.
Support the Technical and Business Product Owners, Dev Leads and Project Manager as necessary.
Assist with user acceptance testing as necessary and appropriate.
Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition.
Improve the productivity of the teams in any way possible.
Receive demos from the developer working on each story to ensure the requirement has been met.

Qualifications:

Bachelor''s degree in computer science, Engineering, Network Security or related field.
Experience with most aspects of software delivery and life cycle, including gathering and developing detailed functional requirement, breaking down complex requirements into independent user stories, capturing detailed acceptance criteria, building a release plan with user stories in collaboration with the customer, managing the backlog, running showcases and incorporating user feedback and documenting system capabilities, business processes and support handover documentation.
Have experience of systems integration and migration delivery.
Have familiarity with the technical aspects of software development, including understanding the capabilities and limitations of programming languages, and a knowledge of testing (System, Unit, Integration, Interface).
Have experience of APIs and the build approach in the context of micro systems and external clients.
An understanding of business process modelling, data modelling, object modelling, and OO design principles.
Successfully applied Agile/XP/Scrum practices.
May have introduced Agile techniques and have coached teams to apply them effectively, thanks to their Agile expertise and outstanding communication skills.
Flexible in working practices.
Have exceptional interpersonal skills, including but not limited to, listening, written and verbal communication skills, exceptional client facing/consulting skills and managing stakeholders.
Experienced in using Atlassian software (such as Jira for backlog management and Confluence for detailed product documentation) or equivalent tools.

Qualified Candidates Only: If you wish to learn more about this opportunity and additional qualifications/responsibilities, please submit your resume. To learn more about Ekman Associates, Inc. please visit our website at

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Dice Id: 91010724
Position Id: 26-00023
Posted 4 hours ago

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