Brandt Information Services

Business Analyst

• Requirements Gathering: Lead interviews, workshops, and working sessions with internal stakeholders and customers to surface business needs and turn them into accurate, comprehensive requirements.
• Backlog Refinement: Partner with Product Owners to shape user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional detail ahead of upcoming sprints.
• Documentation: Produce and maintain Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), user stories, workflows, and process diagrams that make business needs unmistakably clear.
• Translation of Needs: Convert layered business problems into technical and functional requirements that development teams can move on with confidence.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Be the person teams turn to for clarity on requirements throughout the development lifecycle.
• Prioritization Support: Help Product Owners weigh business value, risk, dependencies, and effort when sequencing the backlog.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Align Product Managers and other stakeholders around shared business goals and delivery plans.
• Cross-Functional Communication: Bridge business, technical, and QA conversations so everyone is building toward the same outcome.
• Ambiguity Resolution: Spot gaps, edge cases, and inconsistencies before they become rework, and resolve them with sound analytical judgment.
• Agile Participation: Show up fully in sprint planning, backlog grooming, reviews, and retrospectives as a core part of the delivery team.
• Root Cause Analysis: Dig into issues to find what's really driving them and recommend process or system improvements.
• Standards & Best Practices: Keep business analysis work consistent and high-quality across templates, tools, and teams, and help raise the bar for others.
• QA Collaboration: Validate requirements with QA, review test cases, and confirm delivered functionality actually meets the business need.