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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field is a plus
- 7-9 years of experience working as a Business Analyst on enterprise-level software products or applications
- Experience in user acceptance test planning for large enterprise systems; functional testing experience is a plus
- Experience gathering data as well as summarizing and presenting relevant information to internal and external customers, both online and in person
- Experience understanding customer pain points and shaping the product backlog to address them
- Proficiency with story management tools such as JIRA or Team Foundation Server (TFS)
- Knowledge of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Experience interacting with senior stakeholders such as product owners, software development managers, and senior engineers
- Some degree of programming and software QA experience is a plus
- Experience with digital front ends and APIs is a plus
- Experience formulating business metrics for reporting is a plus
- Eligible to work in India
