Job Overview:
The Sr. Business Analyst is the representative of the Product Owner within the squad(s) assigned to the specific product(s). He or she is responsible for guiding the scrum team to implement business requirements. The Sr. Business Analyst ensures that the team understands the business requirements and the envisioned business processes well enough to be implemented within the sprint. When there is a disagreement or misunderstanding with regard to the requirements, the Sr. Business Analyst assists the company to improve business efficiency and breaks the tie based on the instructions and guidance of the Product Owner.
Main Duties:
- Gather requirements from Stakeholders
- Perform Industry research to be able to validate stakeholder needs to propose/ validate solutions
- Perform Gap/Impact/Data Analysis
- Ability to break down complex business features and prioritize them
- Detail the requirements into user stories and make sure they meet the definition of Ready (DoR) before added to the Sprint Backlog
- Detailed functional and non-functional specifications
- Acceptance criteria for the story
- Slice the stories as per INVEST to approach
- Guide and review UX designs or screens associated with the story (in coordination with the UX Lead or Front-End Developers)
- Backlog Management / Grooming
- Keeps track and update of the stories on the product backlog tool (such as JIRA).
- Delegated by the PO to handle the sprint ceremonies including Business discussions, Planning, Demos and Retro
- Be able to handle multi-squads and manage dependencies between them in case of interrelated products
- Estimation of Analysis activities
- Junior Mentoring
- Participate in Process Improvement whether within the business unit or between the business unit and other units
- Prepare assets and resources for the Business analysis department and the squad members