Business Analyst
Motion Recruitment
- San Francisco, CA
- Contract
- Full-time
- 5- 7 years experience as Product Manager and/or Business Analyst on software development projects
- Financial domain knowledge/experience preferably in the space of ETFs, mutual funds, portfolio management or trade operations
- Strong interpersonal skills and verbal/written communication skills
- Strong project and time management skills
- Strong ability to build effective working relationships across various levels
- Ability to set and maintain priorities in a multi-task environment
- Ability to handle pressure and changes effectively
- Experience executing test plans and coordinating automated testing
- Experience in product demos, presentations and user training
- Experience working in a globally, distributed team
- Experience working in Agile SDLC
- Excellent business judgment and strong analytical skills, with ability to identify issues and solutions
- Experience facilitating business discovery workshops and interviewing end-users
- Demonstrated ability to write high-level business requirements
- Demonstrated ability to write functional specifications: including use cases, business process diagrams, user interface wireframes and data dictionaries
- Demonstrated ability to write and execute user-acceptance test plans and cases
- Experience working on projects with modern application development (e.g. Web applications using Angular/React, Web Services, APIs, JSON/XML, NoSQL Databases, Kubernetes, Cloud Technology)
- Experience with UI/UX design/prototyping is a distinct advantage
Daily Responsibilities
- Analyze business processes/requirements and developing specifications for both near and longer-term solutions
- Attending key Agile development rituals such as stand-ups, grooming, planning, demos and retrospectives
- Coordinating with users and development teams to perform user acceptance tests
- Conduct product demos, presentations and user training
- Oversee the creation of key artifacts critical to the delivery of excellent software products:
- Process definition documents
- Functional specifications
- Data definition documents
- Product release notes
- User journey maps
- Use cases, user stories
- User-acceptance test plans and cases