Business Analyst - Dallas Job at Photon in Highland Park

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 7 years of related experience as IT or Business Analysis that includes researching, testing, documenting and/or maintaining applications or using applications in a business setting Experience working as part of Agile teams Experience as a scrum master would be a plus Digitally savvy, with a passion for innovative and quality digital products Excellent communication skills; both oral and written Skilled in various business analysis techniques including; feature decomposition, context diagrams, stakeholder analysis, state diagrams, wireframes, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, use cases, business process definition, user stories, and backlog management. Excellent communication skills; both oral and written Scrum Master or Product Owner certification a plus Business Analysis Certification from IIBA or PMI a plus Telecommunications background is a big plus REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Prior IT Business Analysis experience or experience as a user of IT applications with specific business knowledge with Web and Mobile App development is desirable. Prior experience with software delivery, project management, requirements gathering desired.