Senior Business Analyst

UWorld is a worldwide leader in online test prep for college entrance, undergraduate, graduate, and professional licensing exams throughout the United States. Since 2003, over 2 million students have trusted us to help them prepare for high-stakes examinations. We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst who excels in gathering, analyzing and communicating business requirements for assigned product development, product maintenance, and support activities.

Responsibilities Work with business stakeholders directly or product owners to gather and understand requirements, analyze requirements, & manage scope creeps. Break user and business requirements into functional requirements, specifying appropriate level of detail. Engage in the requirements verification process, ensuring requirements statements are complete, consistent, concise, and verifiable.

Assist in the prioritization of initiatives based on business needs and requirements. Assist product owner in maintaining a healthy backlog of user stories. Play an active role in refining & grooming user stories.

Work with the product owner, UX designers, SMEs, & external stakeholders to develop wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes to assist in the discovery and gathering of detailed requirements. Work independently (or with the product owner) in writing the functional and non-functional stories for the development teams. Work with the product owners, SMEs, and other stakeholders to test value, interface designs, and feedback from new releases.

Assist product owner in overseeing the actual development of the product, including planning, refinement, review, and sprint support. Assist technical team in understanding the business requirements with help of stories and prototypes. Be present in daily scrum and retrospective meetings, apart from required presence in sprint review meeting.

In the absence of product owner, play the role of proxy owner with end-to-end responsibilities. Participate in facilitating, documenting, and supporting user acceptance testing. Facilitate effective discussions and meetings between development teams, and business stakeholders.

Requirements Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field is a plus. 7–9 years of experience working as a Business Analyst on enterprise-level software products or applications. Experience in user acceptance test planning for large enterprise systems; functional testing experience is a plus. Experience gathering data as well as summarizing and presenting relevant information to internal and external customers, both online and in person.

Experience understanding customer pain points and shaping the product backlog to address them. Proficiency with story management tools such as JIRA or Team Foundation Server (TFS). Knowledge of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Experience working in an Agile environment. Experience interacting with senior stakeholders such as product owners, software development managers, and senior engineers. Some degree of programming and software QA experience is a plus.

Experience with digital front ends and APIs is a plus. Experience formulating business metrics for reporting is a plus. Eligible to work in India.

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