Middle Business Analyst

Ascendix Technologies specializes in building solutions for globally-focused businesses who look to leverage cloud computing, commercial and open-source technologies for big data, search, applications, and cross-platform mobility, concentrating on Azure, Amazon, and SalesForce as platform providers.

We invite talented, passionate Business Analyst to join our team. 

Responsibilities: 

• Interact with the product owner, team and other stakeholders; 
• Plan, facilitate, and conduct requirements elicitation, documentation, and validation; 
• Customer business process and initial documentation analysis;
• Conduct meetings, presentations, and demos; 
• Participate in backlog grooming, defining and approving upcoming release scope; Prioritize features, work on roadmap; 
• Manage change requests; 
• Support development team in clarifications of requirements; 
• Perform acceptance testing and validation, request data patches if necessary; 
• Create various artifacts, such as SRSs, minimal schema and configuration requirements, presentations, user guides, introduction materials, and release notes;
• Maintain actual products and projects documentation, update Wiki. 

Requirements: 

• 2+ years in BA activities (we also consider candidates, who recently switched to BA activities from related ones - QA, PM etc.)
• Previous experience consisted of at least 75% of the time in BA role, execute tasks in the knowledge areas: BA planning and monitoring, Elicitation and collaboration, Requirements life cycle management, Requirements analysis and design definition);
• Practical experience in applying of key BA technics (use cases, user stories, root cause analysis, prototyping, prioritization, mind mapping, functional decomposition, items tracking, risk management, estimation, decision analysis, etc.) 
• Practical experience with tools used for BA activities and teamwork (modeling and prototyping tools, tracking systems, communication tools, etc.) 
• Practical experience as BA in formal and Agile SDLC 
• Fluent English (both written and verbal); 
• Excellent soft skills (communication, presentation, negotiation, conflict resolution, etc.);
• Ability to handle multi-threading activities.

Would be a plus:

• Understanding of UI/UX principles; 
• Knowledge of Real Estate domain;
• Experience in TFS as a requirements management tool. 

Ascendix offers you: 

• Possibility to be a part of a unique working environment in a product company; 
• Career and professional growth; 
• Variety of training opportunities and knowledge sharing; 
• Competitive salary; 
• Paid time off - 20 working days; 
• English classes, sport-program, fruits and candies, tea and coffee, etc.; 
• Centrally located office with a cozy atmosphere that creates good working conditions.