Business Analyst- Contractor

Role expectations

• Analyzing incoming requirements and converting them into features or stories, that should include details about system expected behavior, business rules, design constarints, etc. Therefore technical expertise is strongly required.
• Technical solution development and documentation with diagrams, system requirements and contracts.
• Dividing larger features into the system-level user stories for development team.
• Participation in teams scrum rituals (stand ups, plannings, demos, etc)
• Supporting teams during the development: clarifying requirements, helping SQA with test scenarios coverage, organizing external demo sessions, etc.
• Maintaining teams project and system documentation - specs, contracts, SRSes
• Planning, performing and implementing process improvement initiatives to make sure that the team stays on top of things.

What we're looking for

• 3+ years of experience in IT industry.
• Understanding of REST/Hypermedia API. Basic concepts and general fluency on terminology and key aspects are required.
• Common understanding of HTTP protocol: requests, responses, headers, error codes.
• Ability to write full and clear user stories, functional and non-functional requirements
• Clear understanding of SCRUM methodology and rituals.
• Knowledge of UML and ability to build different kinds of solution and process diagrams
• Good soft skills, ability to initiate and maintain communication between people, initiative, proactiveness.
• Analytical and solution-oriented mind, critical and logical thinking, ability to reach the correct conclusion based on the available facts and arguments
• Being able to be autonomous and responsible for your part of work in terms of quality and matching the deadlines.
• Experience as software developer (ideally web services)
• Experience with Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence)
• Being able to browse through and understand operational logs
• Basic SQL knowledge. Ability to write queries and build simple dashboards
• Ability to read code and get needed information on system behavior from it
• Ability to decompose requirements and build technical solutions based on them
• Agentic AI experience