Job Description :
Agile Analyst/Business analyst/ (571351)/F2F required
Desmoines ,IA
Duration:12 Months
F2F
Complete Description:
In this position, you will be the sole BA for several projects developing new web applications for both internal and external users. The Agile Business Analyst will act as the product champion and will need to evangelize the product vision effectively to their team and to stakeholders. In this role, you will translate business strategies into product strategies, story mapping, roadmaps, minimum viable releases, epics, and user stories.
OCIO is committed to utilizing modern technologies and methodologies in order to deliver secure, high-quality technical solutions to its business partners. The project’s application is being written in .NET/SQL Server environment. Experience working on projects with these technologies, as well as the fundamentals of the iterative/agile methodology, are highly desired.
Responsibilities will include:
Develop and write user stories that directly support the primary objective of the business and are appropriate size for iterative development.
Facilitate regular meetings with project team, sponsors, and stakeholders. Solicit stakeholder feedback to validate priorities and manage expectations.
Design wireframes for business partners and clients.
Participate in the QA process by developing clear, specific, and testable acceptance criteria.
Partner with Product Owner to ensure a healthy backlog and maintain an emphasis on user experience and specifications.
Manage backlog by creating a prioritized list, product backlog, and assists the team in breaking down the pieces into smaller, more manageable pieces and build it incrementally.
Collaborate with the team on Sprint Planning and assist with planning to accomplish items from backlog.
At the end of the Sprint, participate with team in review of the product and a retrospective
Provide metrics to team and stakeholder to bring visibility on progress.
Participate in daily standup meetings, planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.
Further job requirements:
Understand other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to team as well as the enterprise
Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
Understand the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition
Technical understanding of infrastructure components, their dependencies, and interactions between servers, virtual systems, networks, databases, web applications, etc
Ability to proactively participate in customer engagements, follow direction from lead technicians, work with customers, and participate in technical planning
Possess strong communication and facilitation skills
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
Experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology
Required
3
Years
Demonstrated experience translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories
Required
3
Years
Defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development
Required
3
Years
Developing and managing the product backlog
Required
3
Years
Working on web application projects using .Net
Required
3
Years
Acting as primary point of contact for the business partner and clients
Required
2
Years
Questions
Description
Question 1
The Contractor must report any disciplinary action, misdemeanor or felony convictions to the State for any temporary IT staff provided. Do you agree to this requirement?
Question 2
Absences greater than two weeks MUST be approved by CAI Management in advance, and contact information must be provided to CAI so that a resource can be reached during his or her absence. The client has the right to dismiss the resource if she or he does not return to work by the agreed upon date. Do you accept this requirement?
Question 3
This requirement falls under the e-RTR process. The candidate MUST submit their Right to Represent electronically following the process to be considered. Do you accept this requirement?
Question 4
Please list candidate''s email address HERE that will be used when submitting E-RTR.