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We have a sign on our wall as constant reminder to work hard, stay disciplined and deliver awesome software for our customers.  We also want our team to love to come to work!  We encourage that through great people, a fantastic collaborative team environment, constant innovation with new technology and processes, flexible schedules, great office space, weekly happy hours, free parking, and much, much more.  Ready to go?  We are!

JOB DESCRIPTION

You will be an integral part of a software delivery feature team in a fast moving, outcome-oriented company.  Our teams are agile, automated and delivery focused.  To be a part of a Kingsmen team, you need to love delivering software.  In our software delivery model, the Business Analyst joins our proven, high-caliber team to design and deliver quality software solutions.  This role will manage relationships with client product owners and break down high level client requirements into detailed features/functions/stories for our delivery teams.  Planning, design and development work in this operating model is rigorous, disciplined and uses leading-edge technologies to develop simple & efficient solutions.  If you love delivering software and are up to the challenge, then we would love to hear from you!

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE

• Work with Product Owner to fully understand business processes solving for and translate into detailed system design requirements.
• Effectively communicate the functional requirements with the technical team and UX.
• Ability to communicate / document system flow, business rules and overall design to product owner and business users to confirm accuracy and completeness.
• Manage work items in Rally (Functions / Stories).
• Decompose requirements into specific and actionable development stories with the consultation of the development team(s). Associated activities include:
  • Breaking out Functions into detailed stories with clear acceptance criteria that covers all required details to reduce communication gaps.
  • Story administrative maintenance (updates to story point sizing, sequencing, etc.)
  • Story backlog administration (organization of bodies of related work, applying Epic labels, etc.)
• Functional testing of completed user stories as well as regression testing of all existing system functionality.
• Provide ongoing consultation and clarification of the Features and Stories to development team in order to ensure their understanding of the stories and associated business goals.
• Assist business with system documentation and training guides.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 4-7 years of experience
• Experience working in a mature agile environment
• Experience working with teams building user facing web applications
• Basic SQL skills, comfortable working with data, both analyzing existing data sets, as well as validating test results or triaging issues by inspecting data in the database
• Experience with agile tools such as Rally, Jira or Azure DevOps
• Experience decomposing work into Features/Functions/Stories
• Ability to write user stories and acceptance criteria
• Ability to work with UX design team and include product design
• Knowledge or understanding of how systems work. Exposure to application components: UI, web services, server architecture, system architecture, databases
• Strong linear focus: Should be able to walk through detail for planning and executing an iteration
• Very strong communication – ability to articulate complex problems to internal team, as well as confidence in effectively communicating with senior level stakeholders
• Strong emotional intelligence - should be very efficient in identifying with their target audience and communicating appropriately.
• Highly organized, self-starter, with strong analytical skills

THE KINGSMEN SOFTWARE STACK

View our entire stack on Stackshare:  https://stackshare.io/kingsmen-software/kingsmen-software