Job Specifications
What you will be doing:
The Portfolio Business Analyst within a specific product segment is the translational expert; has some degree of subject matter expertise and is the liaison between product management and other support groups such as development, user experience and program management (PMO). They are responsible for understanding the business requirements defined by product management and, in conjunction with user experience personnel, translating those requirements into clear, unambiguous, and concise documents that are used as the basis for software development design and quality assurance testing. Tasks required to fulfill job responsibilities include the ability to elicit, analyze, validate, specify, verify, prioritize, author, and manage detailed requirement documents. These documents support the required workflow such as functional documents, stories, and sprint ready directions.
This position involves tight collaboration with the associated Technical Product Managers is essential to ensuring complete execution and success of the product line. This position is an integral member of the product team consisting of the BA, the User Experience (UX) lead, Product Development lead and assigned PMO contact and other necessary functional leads as appropriate.
Agile SCRUM software lifecycle
Product Management
Business Analysis
Responsibility #1
Business Requirements Analysis
Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
Translates high level Business requirements to actionable stories.
Incorporates and creates detailed requirements, use cases, test cases and meaningful stories to meet business requirements and which supports the business vision.
Assists Sr BA in cross functional business development, requirement reuse across all product and business spectrum.
Works to gain commitment from stakeholders and team members.
Documenting and communicating the results and efforts to the team.
With PMO, helps manage requirement traceability information and track requirement status throughout the process.
Identify and communicate potential process improvements to the TPM.
Is proactively working towards becoming a subject matter expert.
Responsibility #2
Product Development, QA & Testing
Participate in effort to acquire estimates from iteration team
Works closely with QA team to ensure QA requirements and needs are met to allow detailed and thorough product testing can be accomplished.
Works with Sr. PBA or TPD to manage product backlog
Helps manage development issues and ensuring the escalation of necessary issues to the TPD.
Maintain a good understanding of product vision to assure current stories are formulated in a manner to lay the most effective groundwork for future functionality
Assists with coordinating successful completion of UAT.
Providing leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.
Responsibility #3
Data Analysis
Assess and validate integration/solutions and data integrity/quality
Create data mapping and data flow diagrams
Assess the impact of data and software changes on the current and future business
Responsibility
Knowledge Transfer
Executes proper documentation and effective knowledge transfer exists for all parties involved including development, marketing, product support, implementation, and education
Facilitates and conducts meetings and interactions of necessary support groups.
Acts as the point of collaboration to assure all members of the product team sta
Required Qualifications
Work Experience:
Years of Applicable Experience - 4 or more years
Education:
High School Diploma or GED (Required)
Preferred Qualifications
Skills:
Agile SCRUM software lifecycle Product Management
Requirement Analysis
CRM System Product Management
Experience:
T-SQL and data modeling concepts
Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CRM)
Power BI, Microsoft Power Platform
Tableau
Technical Product Management
User Provisioning
Education:
Bachelor’s degree
Additional Job Requirements:
Remain in a stationary position for prolonged periods of time
Be adaptive and change priorities quickly; meet deadlines
Attention to detail
Operate computer programs and software
Ability to communicate effectively with audiences in person and in electronic formats.
Day-to-day contact with others (co-workers and/or the public)
Making independent decisions
Ability to work in a collaborative business environment in close quarters with peers and varying interruptions
Working Conditions: Air conditioned office space
Travel Requirements: No travel required
Physical Demands: Sedentary: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves remaining stationary most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if movement is required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criter
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