Job Details
Akkodis is seeking a SR Business Analyst for a contract position with a client located in Austin, TX.
Location: Remote but looking for someone local to Austin, TX
Duration: 12 months
Description:
- Coordinates all areas of system testing, including preparation, execution and installation support to assure quality system changes.
- Monitors and provides daily production, business and system consultation and support to client base; supports complex systems to assigned client base and identifies, studies and resolves production problems.
- Leads major complex projects, estimates plans and project timelines and resources for target implementation schedules.
- Organizes, directs and develops all aspects of assigned projects, both technical and business. Prioritizes and identifies cross application/system enhancements, documents business needs, determines development impacts to current system processing and works with programmers and users to ensure accuracy of enhancements.
- Bachelor degree OR equivalent experience. Minimum 4 to 8 years experience.
** Must have requirements:
- BSAs understand requirements and stories to bring to Scrum teams for development
- We ask the Critical questions to the PO and scrum team members to better understand the functionality, aka 'The What'.
- We help Document the business functional 'What' with PO.
- With UI design we ask tough questions to facilitate an activity level diagram (data modeling, mapping, flows)
- Regular Pre refinement discussions with PO (& SM) to prepare and finish stories
- Make sure requirements are clear and testable.
- Helps actual refinement go more smoothly.
- Create a Spreadsheet of stories prior to JIRA tickets to facilitate.
- What is needed and categorize (MVP, Post MVP, Fast Follow) adds tags, etc. to transpose into JIRA
- BSAs should work with PO to keep ahead of the team and sprints
- Prioritization of work in each sprint 2-3 sprints ahead (in an ideal world)
- Review backlog, take inventory of work still in Backlog.
- Clean backlog out of stories no longer needed (archive, separate container)
- Initiatives/Epics/stories Work and partner with our PO to document
- Everything above plays into how a BSA can support PI Planning
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Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, term life insurance, short-term disability insurance, additional voluntary benefits, commuter benefits and 401K plan. Our program provides employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State or local law; and Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria. Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs which are direct hire to a client
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