Business Analyst (Software Engineering)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Works with the Analysts and other stakeholders on requirements gathering and scoping for product Features
• Refines features so that the development team can clearly understand what is being developed
• Identifies spike opportunities for the given features
• Defines user stories for the features, including writing Acceptance Criteria for the Devs and QAs, and ensure stories meet the Definition of Ready
• Communicate any changes in requirements following RRB approval to appropriate stakeholders
• Ensure that the product team backlog is in priority order
• Regularly participant in Scrum process
• Facilitates Scrum meetings (Daily Scrum, Grooming, Planning, Review, and Retrospective)
• Keep track of the team’s capacity, velocity, and predictability
• Work with the team to refine and groom stories
• Plan sprints based on the team’s current capacity
• Review Test Plans for stories before closing items, ensuring all items are meeting the Definition of Done
• Attempts to remove any blockers from the team, if unable to remove blockers, and reaches out to the leadership to escalate any issues blocking the team
• Take ownership of overall success of the service
• Aid in the transition of developed services to operations teams (DevOps, App Support)
• Determine appropriate Release timelines together with Leads and Analysts
• Handoff Release items to Release Manager to push through deployment and validation progress
• Ensures that the teams stay on track to reach quarterly goals

  Qualifications

  • Ability to work with many different stakeholders and subject matter experts from different backgrounds (clinical, business, technical).
  • Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology, particularly with the Product Owner role and with writing User Stories and Acceptance Criteria.
  • Comfortable working in fast paced environment with changing priorities.
  • Experience with writing and executing test cases a plus.
  • Take pride in delivering software that meets the client’s needs.
  • Knowledge of Agile incremental development methods.
  • Demonstrated ability to work well on a diverse team.
  • Experience writing requirements for REST APIs and/or SOAP web services, GRPC a plus.
  • Experience testing APIs via Postman or similar tool.
  • Experience creating wireframes or mockups through tools such as Figma or Balsamiq preferred.
  • Experience with Jira as management tool preferred.
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Azure preferred.

  Experience and/or Education Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in IT or business field
  • 3+ years of work experience required
  • Minimum 2-3 years in a Business Analyst position or similar role with a software development team