Business Analyst - Pharmaceutical - Contract to Hire - Remote from ALTA IT Services

• Function as a bridge between the business and development team.
• Analyze business requirements and create user stories for the development team, collaborating with Product Owners, engineers, quality assurance analysts.
• Assist the team in high-level project planning, review and ensure requirements are being met, and projects are successful.
• Work with development agile team members to get detailed acceptance criteria and ensure the digital asset being delivered meets that acceptance criteria for the customer.
• Assist the agile team with performing smoke testing.
• Assist with inputs and drafting of documentation needed to support deployment of web application.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in business analysis through Software Development

• Strong diligence and highly organized
• Self-driven and motivated to function but in a team and as an individual contributor.
• Function as a bridge between IT Product Owners (DPM) and software development teams to achieve shared understanding of business goals.
• Understand practical application of agile principles and practices as a part of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Gather and clearly document business and system requirements.
• Identify functional and non-functional requirements for digital applications.
• Create user stories and use cases with all gathered requirements.
• Collaborate with engineers to implement requirements.
• Collaborate with QA analysts to provide detailed acceptance criteria.
• Strong knowledge of project management principles and best practices
• Ability to conceptualize necessary steps to achieve business objectives through technical design documents, architecture diagrams, and/or software pseudocode.
• Assist Product Owners in orchestrating project plan at a high-level
• Assist Product Owners in tracking requirements to ensure they are met.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skill
• Proactive in identifying opportunities for improvement, driven to take action on those opportunities.

• Desired Skills/Certifications: Scrum Certification
• Physical Requirement(s): No Physical requirement is needed for this position.
• Min. Citizenship Status Required: Must be a US Citizen
• Location: United States (Remote)

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