Job Title: IT Solutions Consultant
About the Role:
The IT Business Analyst plays a vital role within the product development team, acting as the primary liaison between the development team and the business by understanding and translating business needs into software requirements.
Day-to-Day Activities:
* Work closely with stakeholders to prioritize the product backlog and defects based on business value, ensuring the value of the work that the team performs.
* Collaborate with project team members to ensure that the product meets the agreed-upon requirements and to guarantee its high quality.
* Accurately describe the problem statement, business impact, and client experience.
* Work with the business to clearly identify success criteria for each milestone the team is working on.
* Define the acceptance criteria for user stories and requirements to ensure clarity for the development team.
* Assist with the definition of the testing strategy and test execution, including participation in testing activities and release readiness assessments.
* May lead agile ceremonies (stand-ups, retrospectives, showcases, workshops, and inceptions) through visualization techniques.
* Gain a thorough understanding of clients' businesses and be able to gather, refine, and articulate their needs.
* Analyze user requirements and deliver artifacts to assist with understanding, including domain modeling, workflows, user stories, and interface design, by liaising with a range of people, including users and product managers.
Key Skills and Qualifications:
* Minimum 2 years of experience working as an IT Business Analyst.
* Solid experience in gathering requirements.
* Strong knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle.
* Strong SQL knowledge.
* Agile values and principles: Agile SDLC, Teams, Roles, Ceremonies, and Artifacts.
* Jira (working with multiple projects: Scrum and Kanban boards).
* Strong knowledge of testing and automation of testing.
* Confluence, Slack, Google Suite, Excel.
* Presentation skills: project pitches, internal and external demos, feature reviews, and design critiques.
* Nice to have experience with wireframes and design tools: Balsamiq/Adobe XD/InVision.
* Nice to have experience working with cloud technologies.
Benefits: