Develop and write user stories that directly support the primary objective of the project and are appropriate size for iterative development
Facilitate regular meetings with project team, sponsors, and stakeholders. Solicit stakeholder feedback to validate priorities
Collaborate with the team on Sprint Planning and assist with planning to accomplish items from backlog
Design wireframes for business partners and clients
Manage backlog by creating a prioritized list, product backlog, and assists the team in breaking down the pieces into smaller, more manageable pieces and build it incrementally
Provide metrics to team and stakeholder to bring visibility on progress
Participate in the QA process by developing clear, specific, and testable acceptance criteria and performing hand-off to QA
At the end of the Sprint, participate with team in review of the product and a retrospective
Participate in backlog management and maintain an emphasis on user experience and specifications
Participate in daily standup meetings, planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives
Required Skills
Understand other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise
Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
Technical understanding of infrastructure components, their dependencies, and interactions between servers, virtual systems, networks, databases, web applications, etc
Ability to proactively participate in customer engagements, follow direction from lead technicians, work with customers, and participate in technical planning
Possess strong communications and facilitation skills
Required Experience
2 years of experience working as an Agile Business Analyst with strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology
2 years of experience acting as primary point of contact for the business partner and clients
2 years of experience translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories
2 years of experience defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development
2 years of experience developing and managing the product backlog
1 years of experience working on web application projects using .NET (Desired)