Agile Business Analyst

Mission

The Agile Business Analyst main function is to assist the Product Owner in the daily backlog management (writing of User Stories, validation of User Stories, sorting and priorization of backlog). He/She cannot replace the Product Owner who is the only backlog responsibleand decision maker.

Activities &Tasks

• Provides Digital expertise
• Enlightens with digital experience the solutions imagined by Product Owner (best practices,consistency with market standards)
• Gives advice on possible improvements in product backlog
• Supports Product Owner in Product Backlog priorization
• Contribute to the framing phase (data and treatment modelisation)
• Contribute to the prototype
• Proposes priorization adjustment based on the perceived value
• Participates in lifecycleof Product Backlog
• Ensures that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all
• Details each selected feature in the form of a User Story small enough to be implemented within one sprint, including acceptance criteria necessary for the team to understand and develop the user story
• Understands and prioritize Technical Stories suggested by the team as well as Defect Stories
• Clarify any User Story upon request from the Development Team during a Sprint
• Participates and contribute to Agile events with the Team
• Contribute to the test strategy (Write test cases / scenario and perform tests)
• Accepts or refuses developed Stories (if the Product Owner has granted delegation)
• Evaluates the quality of previous releases and current release in production
• Checks the new release for regression issues
• Responsible of the correct documentation of the application in serial life
• Contribute to measure the usage of the application and provide support to users

Skills & Competencies

• Very good skills on databases (SQL);
• Good knowledge about the use of APIs, web services or other types of interfaces between applications;
• Skills and experience in the Agile way of working (SAFE);
• Manual functional testing skills (Xray)
• Good knowledge of tools: Bruno/Postman (API testing), Swagger (API documentation), Jira and Confluence
• Modeling skills (data / process)
• Experience with usage of Generative AI tools (Copilot, ..)
• Team player attitude with a sense of diplomacy
• Analytic and synthetic capacities
• At ease with sharing and transferring knowledge to others (whether it be within the agile team or with stakeholders)
• Knowledge of digital trends, standards, and issues
• Rigor and attention to details

Profile

• Very good level of English, French nice to have
• At least 5 years like Business Analyst experience in Agile projects