Agile Business Analyst

Scope of Work/Responsibilities

The Senior BA is required to be an Agile BA who will work collaboratively with the end users and specifically will:

Requirement Elicitation and Refinement:

• Conduct requirements elicitation workshops and present findings to stakeholders.
• Elicit, analyze, and document business requirements, often translating them into user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Develop necessary requirements for the project in Azure Dev Ops, aligned with the standard document artifacts as supporting documents.

Stakeholder Collaboration and Management:

• Work with the product owner to refine and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring it reflects the most valuable work for the team.
• Actively engage with stakeholders, including product owners, developers, and end-users, to understand their needs and ensure alignment throughout the project lifecycle
• Define business processes in consultation with business users.
• Design and present potential solutions to stakeholders.

Communication and Collaboration:

• Collaborate with IT Department colleagues working on integrating systems to conceptualize solutions from business requirements needed.
• Ensuring clear and consistent communication between stakeholders, clients and the development teams.

Quality Assurance:

• Coordinate with testing team and assist users with User Acceptance Testing.
• Monitor and manage bug fixes/issues and their resolution.
• Help define acceptance criteria for user stories and ensure the delivered product meets those criteria.
• Collaborate with the QA team to provide and validate test scenarios for creation of test cases, and test scripts.

The Senior BA will work with its counterparts, from business, vendor, and technical side of new systems, including integration when needed, within the ecosystem of the company.

Skills:

• Agile Mindset: Understanding and embracing agile principles and practices.
• Business Analysis Techniques: Proficiency in various elicitation and analysis techniques.
• Communication and Facilitation: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Problem-Solving: Ability to identify and resolve issues that arise during the development process.
• Technical Understanding: A basic understanding of the technologies being used.

Requirement and Qualification (Education & Work Experience)

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Information Management, Business Management, Accounting, or any related course
• At least 10 years of solid experience in business analysis and 5 years in a senior business analysis role
• 5 years of experience in banking, accounting, financial services sector
• 7 years of experience in designing and documenting business processes
• 5 years of experience in quality assurance and testing IT applications
• Good exposure in account / sales management, government procurement process, and contract lifecycle management or equivalent
• Good understanding of the development process is an advantage
• Must be conversant with project management lifecycle and systems development cycle
• Knowledge in Agile and Waterfall Methodology
• Knowledgeable in using Azure Dev Ops on managing iterations and building user stories and relevant supporting documents
• Knowledgeable in Microsoft Technology Stack such as SharePoint, Power Platform, Teams, Dynamics 365, and Power BI
• Relevant experience in ITIL Best Practices
• Proven vendor management skills and experience
• Strong stakeholder communication and management skills
• Must have excellent written and spoken communication skills in English

Work Arrangement

• Hybrid, requiring to report onsite three times a week. If the user unit requires to report to HQ for more than 3 days, compliance is mandatory.
• Work Schedule is from 8:00AM – 5:00PM Manila Time.

Job Type: Temporary

Contract length: 12 months

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Pasig