Senior Agile Business Analyst

Do you have a passion for innovation? Are you excited to leverage cutting-edge technology to solve big business problems? If your response to those questions is “yes”, we would love for you to join us At OrangePeople we consult for some of the most prestigious brands in the world. But more importantly, our consultants have a voice in the vision and future of the company. At OrangePeople, our focus is people. It’s right there in our name.

Responsibilities

• The Agile Business Analyst knows that business analysis occurs throughout the project with an initial high-level picture of the overall scope, followed by more detail on specific features when they are delivered vs. performing all analysis work to develop detailed requirements at the beginning of the project.
• They understand the sufficient amount of business analysis necessary to understand the problem and the aspect of the solution currently being delivered while still keeping the project moving forward.
• Collaborates with other team members to determine how much analysis is needed at the beginning of the project to establish the big picture, and during each iteration in order to establish a shared understanding without creating an extensive requirements inventory.
• Collaborates with other team members to decide what is needed to best deliver the solution.
• Grooms the backlog.
• Analyzes the business domain.
• Generates examples.
• Transfer knowledge.
• Determines how much documentation is needed.
• Hold the team accountable for all the work necessary to go from a story/requirement to a running, tested feature that could be delivered to production.
• Coaches other team members on analysis techniques and the appropriate stakeholders to contact, understanding that allowing multiple team members to perform analysis prevents handoffs that occur in phased base approaches, and prevents the BA from becoming a bottleneck to overall team progress.

Basic Qualifications

• Knowledge of JIRA.
• Familiar with ITIL best practices for service design.
• Minimum 6 years relevant experience.
• Lead contact for the Business Requirements phase of multiple Projects.
• Ability to actively participate in all phases of multiple Projects.
• Ability to lead in the delivery and coordination of all project documentation and define processes and procedures as they relate to the overall project objectives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to properly write test scripts.
• Background in timeshare/tourism.

Required Education

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.

Benefits:

• 401(k).
• Dental Insurance.
• Health insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity, equality, inclusion, and respect for people.
• The salary will be determined based on several factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant education, qualifications, experience, technical skills, and business needs.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Participate in OrangePeople monthly team meetings, and participate in team-building efforts.
• Contribute to OrangePeople technical discussions, peer reviews, etc.
• Contribute content and collaborate via the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base.
• Provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested.

About us:

OrangePeople is an Enterprise Architecture and Project Management solutions company. Our most valuable asset is our people: dynamic, creative thinkers, who are passionate about doing quality work. As a member of the OrangePeople team, you will have access to industry-leading consulting practices, strategies & and technologies, innovative training & and education. An ideal Orange Person is a technology leader with a proven track record of technical achievements and a strong process/methodology orientation.