Position: Senior IT Business Analyst
Location: Greensboro-High Point-Winston-Salem, NC
Duration: Contract engagement (W2)
Main responsibilities:
- Handle customer contact to conduct requirements elicitation
- Perform end user studies and end user evaluation to secure that important user needs are met with the prototype or working solution
- Perform prototyping, which is designed to meet user needs and goals
- Responsible for securing that the requirements can be understood by both Business and IT and used by application development team.
- Document the requirements in Jira entries, support management of the backlog and running scrum ceremonies.
- Support the Test Lead with organizing and leading User Acceptance Demo and User Acceptance Test meetings as needed.
- Support prioritization of scope based on end user needs and business value
- Initiate communication channels for end users to ensure that everyone working with the solution understands for whom the solution is created and their needs
- Support the consistency with global processes and application use
- Propose changes that make the software product more efficient and/or reduce operation or maintenance cost
- Facilitate workshops locally or globally
- Lead business change initiatives
Required Competencies:
- 8+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or Solutions Engineer working in an Agile environment with Agile methodologies
- Experience in creating and working with roadmap planning
- Elicitation techniques knowledge
- Analytical thinking and problem-solving mindset
- Confident and strong communication skills ? both oral and written in English.
- Ability to run meetings and workshops
- Excellent documentation skills
- Team player. must be able to work with people at different levels of the organization and in a global team
- Software development and/or maintenance experience would be appreciated
- Experience in application data modeling, activity diagrams is beneficial
- Experience using Confluence and Jira a must
- CCBA, CBAP certification is a plus