Business Analyst

at  Pivotage Consulting

Company Description
Job Summary:
Business analysts study the market, looking at product lines as well as the company’s overall profitability. They also create and track KPIs for data quality and make sure that reporting and business data requirements are satisfied. Strong analytical, technological, and communication abilities are essential.
Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Lead development teams in value stream mapping exercises, identify constraints and make recommendations to increase development velocity in the IT supported platforms
• Keep emphasis on value driven outcomes and work with business teams to track/report on progress of those outcomes
• Participate in and lead stand-up ceremonies on various technology projects
• Facilitated period team and cross functional synchronization meetings
• Must be able to escalate and track impediments
• Must be able to act as a collaborative partner and coach, participate in real-time to provide advice or assistance to business teams as they tackle and overcome difficult business challenges
• Drive continuous improvement through examples and practical experience
• Drive necessary validation efforts for non-medical software following internally defined procedures
• Collaborate with internal customers to ensure user requirements are complete and concise, confirming that changes and enhancements meet specifications and user requirements
• Interact with the business to elicit, analyze, and document detailed business requirements, create test cases and ensure quality through testing
• Perform business process analysis to define configuration requirements
• Transform business requirements into quality documentation including detailed design specifications to describe program development and ensure tractability to requirements in validated quality testing system.
• Make appropriate recommendations for continuing, modifying, or abandoning proposed projects based on the results of feasibility studies and/or cost/benefit analyses
• Map current processes to the desired state and identifies gaps such as program functions, output requirements, input requirements and sources, data conversion strategies, and system techniques and controls Role Responsibilities
• Provide solid test designs, develops test cases and execution test cases where applicable

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Must be an expert in understanding and demonstrated experience with Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban methodologies and DevOps practices (CI/CD, SRE, etc.)
• Must be Passionate about Agile, follows latest trends, attends conferences/meetups, read blogs, listens to podcasts.
• Ability to work independently without immediate direction
• Bachelor’s degree in business, Computer Science or related discipline
• Prior experience with microservices, API design etc (Google APIGEE)
• 5+ years of business analysis experience
• At least 3 years’ experience working with Agile and DevOps tools (Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins)
• Excellent communication and customer service skills.
• Able to bridge communication between technical areas and business areas for a full and complete understanding of expectations
• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment

• Lead development teams in value stream mapping exercises, identify constraints and make recommendations to increase development velocity in the IT supported platforms
• Keep emphasis on value driven outcomes and work with business teams to track/report on progress of those outcomes
• Participate in and lead stand-up ceremonies on various technology projects
• Facilitated period team and cross functional synchronization meetings
• Must be able to escalate and track impediments
• Must be able to act as a collaborative partner and coach, participate in real-time to provide advice or assistance to business teams as they tackle and overcome difficult business challenges
• Drive continuous improvement through examples and practical experience
• Drive necessary validation efforts for non-medical software following internally defined procedures
• Collaborate with internal customers to ensure user requirements are complete and concise, confirming that changes and enhancements meet specifications and user requirements
• Interact with the business to elicit, analyze, and document detailed business requirements, create test cases and ensure quality through testing
• Perform business process analysis to define configuration requirements
• Transform business requirements into quality documentation including detailed design specifications to describe program development and ensure tractability to requirements in validated quality testing system.
• Make appropriate recommendations for continuing, modifying, or abandoning proposed projects based on the results of feasibility studies and/or cost/benefit analyses
• Map current processes to the desired state and identifies gaps such as program functions, output requirements, input requirements and sources, data conversion strategies, and system techniques and controls Role Responsibilities
• Provide solid test designs, develops test cases and execution test cases where applicabl