The Product Owner / Agile Business Analyst role is to plan and elicit requirements from business stakeholders in the form of epics and stories, ensure stakeholders understand business value and required outcomes, and to ensure requirements are communicated and understood by the entire project team.

Responsibilities:

• Establish a requirements management strategy for the project, which describes; process for elicitation, documentation standards and format, tools, meeting cadence, backlog grooming process, review & approval process, change process, and communications processes.
• Facilitate the discovery of business requirements and document in the form of business objectives, goals, and success criteria.
• Facilitate the discovery of functional and non-functional requirements and document in the form of epics, stories, wireframes, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Build, organize and maintain the backlog over the course of the project, often serving as a partner and mentor for a Client's Product Owner.
• Facilitate the ongoing backlog grooming process, working with business stakeholders to define value, prioritize to organize/select stories for upcoming sprints, and to organize the backlog into a high-level MVP and future release roadmap.
• Ensuring stories are "ready" for upcoming sprints and describing stories in detail during sprint planning ceremonies.
• Communicate requirements to stakeholders; ensure developers and testers understand the stories and have a common understanding on how the user story will be built, implemented, and tested.
• Analyze new requests from stakeholders and determine if the request is a new story, a modification to an existing story, or already covered in an existing story and add to backlog as appropriate.
• Participate in all scrum ceremonies. Serve as a proxy for a Client's Product Owner during the daily stand-up meetings.
• Train team on requirements processes, epic/story decomposition, and tools in use for the project.
• Ensure requirements cover the scope as defined in the SOW. Identify deviations from the SOW and communicate to project leadership in support of the change control process.

Optional Responsibilities:

• Perform functional testing
• Review testing issues and determine if the issue is a bug or behaving as expected
• Write user acceptance test UAT scripts
• Facilitate user acceptance testing
• Write training materials and train new users
• Assist with content entry and verification tasks

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ yrs experience as Business Analyst
• 2+ yrs experience as a Product Owner on a Scrum or SAFe project
• Travel 25-75% as needed for project assignments
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Scrum Master or Product Owner certification a plus
• Industry Business Analysis certification a plus (PMI-BA, IIBA-CBAP, etc)
• SAFe certification preferred
• Experience with Agile management tools a plus (e.g. VersionOne, Jira, Rally)