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Senior Business Analyst
Join our team as a remote Senior Business Analyst to develop full-cycle applications using agile methodologies. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will work closely with product owners, development teams, and other stakeholders to elicit requirements, define business goals and objectives, and clarify any ambiguities. You will be responsible for breaking down assigned EPICs into stories to an agreed quality threshold, documenting requirements according to the selected framework, BA approach, and Definition of Ready. This position offers an opportunity to contribute significantly to the success of our customer projects and impact the company's growth.
Responsibilities
- Elicit requirements, define business goals and objectives, and clarify any ambiguities with the product owner and elaboration team lead
- Break down assigned EPICs into stories to an agreed quality threshold
- Document requirements according to the selected framework, BA approach, and Definition of Ready (i.e. Use Cases, Epics, User Stories including Acceptance Criteria)
- Facilitate BA activities during the Discovery phase
- Collaborate with stakeholders (i.e. business representatives, SMEs, Development and QA teams etc.)
- Support of the development team in explaining the story
- Support testing teams with a knowledge transfer of the meaning of the story to enable test scripts to be written
- Contribute to the success of our customer projects
- Identify inconsistencies in requirements
- Arrange and facilitate meetings and workshops with the stakeholders
- Create wireframes and diagrams
- Support solution testing/UAT
Requirements
- At least 3 years of relevant BA experience
- Experience working with Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban) or classic one (e.g. Waterfall)
- Ability to propose applicable software development processes and influence/enhance them
- Ability to create or adapt a set of templates to be used in the project
- Experience in creating different types of requirements
- Experience in using multiple estimation approaches
- Ability to plan Business Analysis Approach on the project and facilitate related communication
- Experience in guiding elicitation activities
- Experience in arranging and facilitating meetings and workshops with the stakeholders
- Ability to quickly acquire new project and domain-specific information using different sources
- Experience in usage requirements management tools (e.g. JIRA, Confluence)
- Experience in using visual modeling notations (UML, BPMN)
- Knowledge of UX/UI general concepts and the ability to take part in designing activities
- Strong analytical, learning, creative, and visual thinking skills
- Excellent communication skills in spoken and written English, at an upper-intermediate level or higher
Nice to have
- Experience with data analysis and visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Google Analytics
- Experience with project management tools such as Trello or Asana
- Certifications such as CBAP, CCBA, or PMI-PBA
Benefits
- International projects with top brands
- Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
- Healthcare benefits
- Employee financial programs
- Paid time off and sick leave
- Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
- Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
- Global career opportunities
- Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
- EPAM Employee Groups
- Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn