Business Analyst

Requirements Management

• Understand all requirements associated with a new EPIC or Initiative.
• Work with Product Manager/Owner and Sr Developers/Leads on documenting requirements associated with a particular initiative or EPIC.
• Develop and maintain functional specifications or "How to Use This Feature" documentation (when appropriate).
• Manage and lead the requirements gathering sessions.

Ticket Development & Refinement

• Create and refine detailed User Stories consistent with the High Level Requirements noted in the associated EPIC.
• Refine Stories as needed so that they have required detailed to be actioned by the full scrum team.
• Elicit and document ticket dependencies, ensuring that information is tagged correctly and captured in the Dependency Huddle board.
• Ensure all stories meet the agreed "Definition of Ready" before being taken into sprint planning session
  • Note: for Critical tickets brought in mid sprint, analyze and refine ticket to mitigate risk of ticket issues
• Contribute to work estimates as appropriate so that sprint planning is effective.
• Maintain a "healthy" backlog consistent with agreed upon targets for INTL. (2 Sprints ahead).
• Manage and lead the ticket refinement process.

Partnering with Third Party Teams (internal/external)

• Facilitate necessary conversations with teams outside of INTL, ensuring necessary tickets are created to address the requirements.
• Facilitate meetings with third parties as required to ensure the work is progressing in such a way as to meet overall EPIC or Project timelines.
• Ensure cross team collaboration is occurring as needed and that any blockers are resolved or escalated as appropriate to keep the work progressing.
• Close out as required and per agreed prioritization (set by the Product Manager/Owner) any outstanding issues that exist post go-live i.e How-To documents

Process Improvement:

• Help ensure a continual process improvement focus exists across the team, supporting an environment of experimentation and new practice trials.
• Ensure consistency with INTL common practices.
• Contribute to and lead Process Improvement activities as appropriate and per PI roadmap plans, etc.
• Partner with peer Business Analysts to share and leverage lessons learned, fostering a PI culture at all times.

Test Plan Review

• Review Test plan to ensure acceptance criteria is clearly noted
  • ensure they can be linked back to requirements

Operations Support

• When applicable, ensure third party information is up-to-date related to scheduled maintenance windows/planned outages:
• When applicable, ensure third party contact/issue resolution information is up-to-date: INTL - Master Third Party Inventory, Vendor Contacts & Escalation

Quarterly Planning

• Review initial Business and Technical 'EPIC' requirements as part of pre planning and carry out detailed analysis in order to determine solution and specific stakeholder requirements
  • Analyze platform and functionality along with facilitating as needed discussions with UX, Engineering and external teams (CoE, SRE, Analytics) in order to determine solution requirements, dependencies and risks
  • Communicate findings to Product Manager and support the updating of EPIC details and initial creation of user stories based on this analysis
• During quarterly planning provide QA and Engineering teams with details of analysis as needed in order to support the team in providing as accurate a LOE as possible given available information
• For any assumptions made for new business requirements, clarify and confirm assumptions with the SME stakeholder group and/or conduct the analysis required to confirm the assumption is accurate
• Support the Scrum Master in creation of intake requests for external teams as needed

Required Skills : Business Analysis

Basic Qualification :

Additional Skills : Business Analyst

Background Check : No

Drug Screen : No