UWorld is a worldwide leader in online test prep for college entrance, undergraduate, graduate, and professional licensing exams throughout the United States. Since 2003, over 2 million students have trusted us to help them prepare for high-stakes examinations.
We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst who excels in gathering, analyzing and communicating business requirements for assigned product development, product maintenance, and support activities.
Responsibilities:
- Work with business stakeholders directly or product owners to gather and understand requirements, analyze requirements, & manage scope creeps.
- Break user and business requirements into functional requirements, specifying appropriate level of detail.
- Engage in the requirements verification process, ensuring requirements statements are complete, consistent, concise, and verifiable.
- Assist in the prioritization of initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
- Assist product owner in maintaining a healthy backlog of user stories.
- Play an active role in refining & grooming user stories.
- Work with the product owner, UX designers, SMEs, & external stakeholders to develop wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes to assist in the discovery and gathering of detailed requirements.
- Work independently (or with the product owner) in writing the functional and non-functional stories for the development teams.
- Work with the product owners, SMEs, and other stakeholders to test value, interface designs, and feedback from new releases.
- Assist product owner in overseeing the actual development of the product, including planning, refinement, review, and sprint support.
- Assist technical team in understanding the business requirements with help of stories and prototypes.
- Be present in daily scrum and retrospective meetings, apart from required presence in sprint review meeting.
- In the absence of product owner, play the role of proxy owner with end-to-end responsibilities.
- Participate in facilitating, documenting, and supporting user acceptance testing.
- Facilitate effective discussions and meetings between development teams, and business stakeholders.
Requirements
- Degree in computer science or related field
- 5+ years of experience working as a Business Analyst on enterprise-level software products/applications.
- Experience in functional testing, and user acceptance test planning for large enterprise systems.
- Experience gathering data as well as summarizing and presenting relevant information to internal and external customers, both online and in person.
- Proficient in formulating business metrics for reporting.
- Exposure to digital front ends and API’s environments.
- A passion for delivering customer-centric products/services, be able to understand pain-points of the customers and shape the Product backlog to address those points.
- Strong knowledge of story management tools such as JIRA, Team Foundation Server (TFS) etc.
- Experience working in an Agile environment.
Soft Skills
- Proficient written and verbal communication skills (email, phone, etc.)
- Excellent analytical, communication and research skills.
- Excellent attention to detail and organization skills and ability to articulate ideas clearly and concisely.
- Ability to work effectively within a changing environment that is going through high growth.
- Exceptional follow-through, personal drive, and ability to understand direction and feedback.
