Sr Business Analyst (Houston,TX)
The Judge Group Inc.

Job Info

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Location: Houston, TX
Description:
Job Title: Sr Business Analyst

Location: Houston, TX

Job Description:

Competencies and Qualifications:

• 2-3 years' experience in Agile/Scrum, supporting Agile efforts.
• Experience with Agile management tools (e.g., ADO, Jira) is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interact professionally with diverse groups, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Proficiency in various business analysis techniques, including data modeling, feature decomposition, context diagrams, stakeholder analysis, state diagrams, wireframes, functional and non-functional requirements, use cases, business process definition, user stories, and backlog management.
• Scrum Master or Product Owner certification is a plus.
• Experience with Digital teams on AI initiatives is a plus.

Accountabilities:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand key business objectives and transform them into scoped business changes, including defining the minimal viable product (MVP).
• Establish a requirements management strategy, including processes for elicitation, documentation standards, tools, meeting cadence, backlog grooming, review & approval, change, and communications.
• Elicit and document business requirements in the form of vision statements, visual models/process flows, business objectives, goals, and success criteria.
• Elicit functional and non-functional requirements and document them as epics, stories, wireframes, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Determine data needs for predictive analysis and other AI functions.
• Analyze data to inform decision-making and interpret statistical analysis from AI functions.
• Act as an AI and technical translator to facilitate communication between data scientists, developers, and business stakeholders.
• Build, organize, prioritize, and maintain the project backlog, partnering with the Business Lead/Product Owner.
• Facilitate backlog grooming, supporting the Business Lead/Product Owner in defining value, priority, and scope for upcoming releases and sprints.
• Collaborate with Product Owner, Business Users, and Technical Team to write and elaborate user stories, including acceptance criteria and business rules.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies such as stand-ups, demos, and sprint retrospectives.
• Facilitate the review of stories during sprint planning to ensure a common understanding of user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Analyze new requests from stakeholders to determine if they are defects, new stories, modifications to existing stories, or already covered. Update the backlog and stories as appropriate.
• Maintain an overall view of the project, understanding how parts fit together to provide the overall solution.
• Perform functional testing during development sprints and review testing issues to determine if they are bugs or expected behavior.
• Write user acceptance test (UAT) scripts and facilitate UAT.
• Measure and track key performance indicators to drive continuous improvement.

Contact: atunstall@judge.com

This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Find us on the web at www.judge.com

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