Business Analyst at Pivotage Consulting

Responsibilities:

• Lead development teams in value stream mapping exercises, identify constraints and make recommendations to increase development velocity in the IT supported platforms
• Keep emphasis on value driven outcomes and work with business teams to track/report on progress of those outcomes
• Participate in and lead stand-up ceremonies on various technology projects
• Facilitated period team and cross functional synchronization meetings
• Must be able to escalate and track impediments
• Must be able to act as a collaborative partner and coach, participate in real-time to provide advice or assistance to business teams as they tackle and overcome difficult business challenges
• Drive continuous improvement through examples and practical experience
• Drive necessary validation efforts for non-medical software following internally defined procedures
• Collaborate with internal customers to ensure user requirements are complete and concise, confirming that changes and enhancements meet specifications and user requirements
• Interact with the business to elicit, analyze, and document detailed business requirements, create test cases and ensure quality through testing
• Perform business process analysis to define configuration requirements
• Transform business requirements into quality documentation including detailed design specifications to describe program development and ensure tractability to requirements in validated quality testing system.
• Make appropriate recommendations for continuing, modifying, or abandoning proposed projects based on the results of feasibility studies and/or cost/benefit analyses
• Map current processes to the desired state and identifies gaps such as program functions, output requirements, input requirements and sources, data conversion strategies, and system techniques and controls Role Responsibilities
• Provide solid test designs, develops test cases and execution test cases where applicable

Requirements:

• Must be an expert in understanding and demonstrated experience with Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban methodologies and DevOps practices (CI/CD, SRE, etc.)
• Must be Passionate about Agile, follows latest trends, attends conferences/meetups, read blogs, listens to podcasts.
• Ability to work independently without immediate direction
• Bachelor's degree in business, Computer Science or related discipline
• Prior experience with microservices, API design etc (Google APIGEE)
• 5+ years of business analysis experience
• At least 3 years' experience working with Agile and DevOps tools (Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins)
• Excellent communication and customer service skills.
• Able to bridge communication between technical areas and business areas for a full and complete understanding of expectations
• Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment