Senior Agile Business Analyst (offline) to $5000

Currently we’re assisting Fortius in setting up their team in Kyiv. Fortius is a high growth, cloud-based, SaaS subscription business, providing governance, risk management and compliance services to over 4,000 public and private sector clients and over 60,000 customers across 20 different sectors including construction, transport, retail, hospitality education, facility and property management, manufacturing, local and central government.

We manage the qualification, onboarding and audit requirements of individuals, companies, and industry bodies. We provide real-time monitoring and verification of critical data points across all work categories, tenders, and projects. We enable Buyers to access at the touch of a button, data analytics across their entire supply chain in areas such as validity and expiration of specific licenses, qualifications and certificates, accuracy of financial health, insurance levels and exclusions, CSR, infosec and environmental policies and up-to-date health and safety reports.

The Business Analyst will work alongside product owners and stakeholders, analysing the business needs to support the future vision of the company, as well as supporting its current business requirements. The objective of the role is to:
• Understand the business context and business objectives of the project to support initial, high-level requirements envisioning.
• Prepare and facilitate workshops with business representatives, in collaboration with other team members to enable active stakeholder participation in requirements modelling.
• Document requirements in the form of executable specifications (AC) to enable these to be
repurposed as test conditions.
• Analyse business processes and proposing solutions, using a variety of tools, to achieve the
objectives of the program.
• Identify impacts.
• Collaborate with the Engineering, Product, and other stakeholders.
• Support the planning and execution of the project or initiative.
• Prepare and execute the different test scenarios (functional and integrations).
• Support the business lines in the operational implementation of the solution.
• Write well defined User Stories and Manage the JIRA back-log.

Role Responsibilities:
• To elicit the actual business needs of stakeholders, not simply their expressed desires, or perceived solutions. Typically this is done through Problems Statements and Jobs to be Done framework.
• To analyse and synthesise information provided by stakeholders.
• To produce quality deliverables in support of an Agile Project Methodology such as business
requirements, processes and workflows, system requirements, AC, and test plans.
• To support the requirements lifecycle from high-level business envisioning through requirements modelling to testing.
• To define and validate solutions that meet business needs, goals, or objectives.
• To participate in the evaluation and benchmarking of market solutions when required.
• To assist in organizing projects and implementation plans.
• To assist project teams during the implementation of solutions.
• To participate in the design and execution of test scenarios and scripts.
• To assist the operations teams on complex issues encountered by product/process users.

Must Have Qualifications:
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment using Agile methodologies with minimal oversight or supervision.
• Must have experience of requirements elicitation and documentation across a complex change portfolio in dynamic business environments.
• Must have experience of working in a virtual team, under an agile development methodology and a challenging timeframe, without compromising the quality of deliverables.
• Must have experience in Jira.
• Must be familiar with Problem Statements and Jobs to be Done.
• Must have worked on delivering Web Based Software.
• Understands what “good is” for story writing.
• Can write high-quality executable specifications (AC).
• Good English communication skills

Good-to-Have:
• Design thinking experience.
• Experience of interacting with Figma and working with UX/UI designers.
• Experience in Mico-services Architectures, NoSQL, Elastic Search.
• Experience of working on SaaS B2B projects.
• Visualization tools such as Miro.

Travelling:
• Depending on project requirements, there could be travel from time to time.

We Offer:
• Creative, challenging, and fast-growing product.
• Broad and advanced technology stack — huge opportunity to learn.
• Opportunity to enjoy working with senior engineers and managers.
• Informal style of leadership and communication.
• Health insurance from the 1st working day.
• Flexible working arrangements: from 10-11 am to 7-8 pm.
• 22 workdays of annual vacation.
• Free English classes.
• Modern office facilities in the city center (Gulliver BC).

About INSCALE

Samsung Research and Development Institute Ukraine (SRK) is one of the units of R&D infrastructure of Samsung Electronics. Our local directions cover R&D activities in such areas as computer vision, next generations of human-computer interfaces based on 3D graphics and recognition technologies; applications for creating and consuming new types of multi-media content; device-2-device and device-2-cloud convergence; information security; artificial intelligence; natural language processing (NLP); human computer interaction (HCI); information retrieval; computational intelligence.

The main goal of the SRK is to provide next generation, adaptive, context-aware intelligent services for Samsung products and immersive serendipity across software and hardware eco-systems. We provide prototypes and new generation software development from scratch for embedded devices that gives a chance for Ukrainian engineers to work on technology of the future.

Company website:
research.samsung.com/srk