Senior Business Analyst

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.

Benefits