What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Business Analyst III position at Omni Inclusive?
Job Overview :
You will be a key influencer within the NRG Data & AI team driving ideation through to delivery and implementation of solutions. You will be expected to work closely with business stakeholders ensuring decisions are fact based, that the team appropriately defines the vision, empathizes with the customer, ensures customer value is prioritized, and will groom the backlog to ensure fit for purpose and ready for development.
Accountabilities :
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand key business objectives and ideas to help define and transform them into a scoped and sized business change including definition of minimal value product (MVP).
- Establish a requirements management strategy which describes; process for elicitation, documentation standards and format, tools, meeting cadence, backlog grooming process, review & approval process, change process, and communications processes.
- Elicit business requirements and document in the form of a vision statement, user stories, business requirements document, visual models / process flows, business objectives, goals, and success criteria.
- Elicit functional and non-functional requirements and document in the form of epics, wireframes, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
- Understand the concept of data-driven decision making, ability to analyze data and use it to inform decision making
- Build, organize help prioritize and maintain the project backlog over the course of the project, often serving as a partner and mentor for the Business Lead / Product Owner.
- Facilitate the ongoing backlog grooming process, supporting the Business Lead / Product Owner to define value, priority, and select scope for upcoming releases and sprints.
- Collaborate with Product Owner, Business Users, and Technical Team to write and elaborate user stories to include acceptance criteria and business rules per the team's "Definition of Done"
- Participate in Agile / Scrum ceremonies such as stand-ups, demos and sprint retrospectives.
- Facilitate the review of stories with team during sprint planning to ensure the team has a common understanding of the user story and acceptance criteria.
- Analyze new requests from stakeholders and determine if the request is a defect, new story, a modification to an existing story, or already covered in an existing story. Update the backlog and stories as appropriate.
- Maintain an overall view and perspective on the "big picture" and understanding how the parts of the project fit together to provide the overall solution.
- Perform functional testing during development sprints and review testing issues to determine if the issue is a bug or behaving as expected
- Write user acceptance test (UAT) scripts and facilitate user acceptance testing
- Measuring and tracking key performance indicators and using the data to drive continuous improvement.
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