UWorld, LLC is hiring a

Sr.Business Analyst

Hyderabad, India
Full-Time

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 Sr. 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 prioritization of initiatives based on business needs and requirement.
  • Assist product owner in maintaining 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 wire-frames, 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:

  • Master's/Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
  • 6-9 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.

SoftSkills:

  • 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.
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