Business Analyst for a product company (offline)

They redesign the existing software to fit the new business model and requirements (mobile-first, the new services, and processes structure);
You will have close contact with the final users and the possibility to
apply your design principles, approaches, and tools.

The company is a leading SaaS for the franchising industry to simplify its
operations. Covering different areas of the daily routine: financial, sales,
field audit controls. They have offices in Atlanta, Kyiv, and Islamabad.

What is the task:
● They have decided to totally redesign (by redesign I mean not just change
of outlook, but the business processes) of our existing business.
● They will face a challenge: how to make the current diesel-powered
harvester that also cooks bread (that happened occasionally) into smart
and users-desired assistant in the daily operations.
● They are creating the ecosystem for Franchising business that will allow to run operations smoothly and simplified.

Who are they looking for:
● The Business Analyst will help to bring transformation into life. They
are building the transformational team from scratch, that is why no
legacy is to be met.

Requirements:
● At least 2 years of experience as a business analyst in medium-size
software development projects;
● Knowledge of SDLC and basic Scrum/Project Management concepts;
● Understanding different types of requirements and practical
experience of their description in the appropriate formats/artifacts;
● Ability to create valid user stories and use cases;
● Understanding of requirements life cycle and activities to analyze and
manage requirements
● Understanding of the designer’s, programmer’s, tester’s work scope;
● Experience in preparing specifications and other artifacts
(presentation, guides, release notes, etc.) for different groups of
stakeholders;
● Experience with key BA technics (interview, workshop, document
analysis, estimation, mind mapping, etc.)
● Good communication skills, experience as presenter and negotiator
with Product Owners and the team;
● Ability to name the city of our office in the United States at the
interview;
● Ability to foresee and describe edge cases and alternative scenarios;
● At least an upper-intermediate level of English.
● Pre-intermediate understanding the business processes (finance,
operations, HR, etc.)
● Analytical and problem-solving mindset

What will you do?
● Clarify the business needs of the customer and end-users of the
product;
● Describe the functional and non-functional requirements for the
product;
● Identify and analyze the existing solution;
● Create a work breakdown structure for the project scope;
● Analyze and decompose complex requirements (break down on user
stories/use cases);
● Create API decryptions and validate them to requirements;
● Create both functional and non-functional requirement specifications;
● Create diagrams (BPMN / blueprints / etc) to clear requirements;
● Holding backlog grooming with the development team. Consult
development and design teams;
● Interact with all participants of the process: customers, designers,
developers, testers, and managers;
● Holding main expertise about product's requirements;
● Keep up-to-date Atlassian Jira and Confluence as a requirements
management systems.

What do the company offer:
● Cozy office in the heart of Kyiv, close to all 3 underground lines
● Start-up spirit (the team is being built)
● Multinational and intercultural experience
● Possibility to build a new product to the US market

About Dragon's Lake

Dragons Lake is a best-in-class multi-genre game development studio providing advanced tech and design solutions for AAA/AA+ projects on PC & Consoles. We unite game dev professionals worldwide, working on high-end titles, co-developing, and porting with leading AAA publishers and developers in the industry.

We are video games craftsmen and gamers at heart, striving to scale new heights on the global market in the game dev industry. We bring ingenuity, creativity, and innovation in everything we do and go the extra mile to create extraordinary gaming experiences for all the players out there!

As part of Room 8 Group, we are a community that thrives on passion and ambition towards the gaming realm of entertainment. Don’t miss out on the career adventure of a lifetime - competitive financial reward, professional mentoring, conferences, engaging corporate life, an opportunity to work and learn in the environment of cultural diversity and inclusion.

Company website:
https://dragonslake.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/dragonlake/