Job Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leads and manages requirements gathering and analysis activities by working with stakeholders, developers, designers, QA analysts and internal/external customers.
  
• Elicits, captures, analyzes, refines, articulates and documents business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria and software documentation via approved processes.
  
• Manages requirement changes throughout the project lifecycle.
  
• Balances business requirements with technical feasibility and sustainability.
  
• Synthesizes complex information into concise, readable, unambiguous language.
  
• Assists with product backlog maintenance and grooming.
  
• Collaborates closely with UX, Development and QA Teams.
  
• Establishes and maintains agreements between team members on requirements.
  
• Participates in Agile cadence such as Scrum standup meetings, backlog grooming sessions, review and retrospective meetings.
  
• Ensures that appropriate project documentation is produced throughout the project lifecycle.
  
• Occasional travel for training, meetings or trade shows may be required.
  

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field required, Masters Degree preferred.
  
• 2+ years of relevant industry experience.
  
• Scrum experience highly desirable.
  
• Experience with Ruby, Objective-C, AWS and continuous integration is a plus.
  

Knowledge and Skill Requirements/Specialized Courses and/or Training:

• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle and Agile development processes.
  
• Proven experience creating user stories, acceptance criteria, design documentation, process flows and wireframes in order to clearly communicate a set of functional requirements.
  
• Strong business requirement analytical skills with the ability to produce clearly articulated requirements and documents.
  
• Strong understanding of iterative software development.
  
• Demonstrated interpersonal and leadership skills required to interact with staff, colleagues, management and internal/external customers.
  
• Requires the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time.
  
• Experience with the development of web and mobile applications.