What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Analyst - Dallas position at Photon?
Job Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities :
- Experience with Agile methodology, writing user stories, managing scrum calls, prioritizing backlog, etc.
- Elicit functional and non-functional requirements and document in the form of epic, stories, wireframes, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
- Develop use cases and process flows and ensure documentation conforms to SLC / PMO standards.
- Facilitate the ongoing backlog grooming process, supporting the 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 Ready"
- Ensure stories meet quality criteria; for example : unambiguous, complete, consistent, deterministic, and testable.
- Ensure stories are "Ready" for upcoming sprints.
- Establish a requirements management strategy for the team, which describes process for elicitation, documentation standards and format, tools, meeting cadence, backlog grooming process, review & approval process, change process, and communications processes.
- 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.
- Works with QA to develop and execute test plans based on appropriate coverage for the functionality being delivered.
- Clarify questions / defects during testing process to ensure project requirements are met : Identify and assess potential scope creep
REQUIRED SKILLS
REQUIRED EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE
