Business Analyst

Summary

Join Encora as a Business Analyst bridging the gap between business and development teams. Analyze business needs, translate them into user stories, and collaborate with product owners and engineers. Contribute to project planning, ensuring requirements are met and projects succeed. Work with agile teams to define acceptance criteria, perform smoke testing, and support documentation for web application deployment. Provide timely updates on project status. This role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to improvement.

Requirements

• Obtain a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field
• Have 5+ years of experience in business analysis through Software Development
• Be self driven and motivated to function both in a team and as an individual contributor
• Function as a bridge between Business Product Owners and software development teams to achieve shared understanding of business goals
• Gather and clearly document business and system requirements
• Identify functional and non-functional requirements for digital applications
• Create user stories and epics for gathered requirements
• Collaborate with engineers to implement requirements
• Have the ability to take high level overview from business and break down into user stories with detailed criteria. Will require good communication with business to close any gaps for mutual understanding
• Understand practical application of agile principles and practices as a part of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Collaborate with QA analysts to provide detailed acceptance criteria
• Assist Product Owners in tracking requirements to ensure they are met
• Possess strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
• Be proactive in identifying opportunities for improvement, driven to take action on those opportunities
• Be a Citizen of the United States

Responsibilities

• Function as a bridge between the business and development team
• Analyze business requirements and create user stories for the development team, collaborating with Product Owners, engineers, and quality assurance analysts
• Assist the team in high-level project planning, review and ensure requirements are being met, and projects are successful
• Work with development agile team members to get detailed acceptance criteria and ensure the digital asset being delivered meets that acceptance criteria for the customer
• Assist the agile team with performing smoke testing
• Assist with inputs and drafting of documentation needed to support deployment of web application
• Provide timely updates to lead business integrator around challenges, successes and current status

Preferred Qualifications

Obtain Scrum Certification

Benefits

Work remotely from the United States (EST)