Yahara Software

Business Analyst

• Create comprehensive product roadmaps based on client organizational vision.
• Collaborate on discovery projects and provide guidance to software requirements analysts and client teams leading the corresponding implementation projects.
• Conduct requirements-gathering sessions with numerous stakeholders at numerous business levels for future-state solutions.
• Analyze complex business problems and identify value-driven systems and solutions that can be leveraged.
• Formulate and define stakeholder objectives into a recommendation of potential solutions.
• Research client's market competitive advantages and disadvantages and external pressures; incorporating them into the overall solution design.
• Organize the requirements into feature-sets and prioritize into 'mandatory' versus 'desired' buckets.
• Build functionality proposals in collaboration with engineering.
• Convert requirements and solutions into actionable work units that support activities such as estimating, development and testing.
• Utilize rapid prototyping tools such as JustinMind, Sketch, or Zephyr.
• Consult with Yahara's technical teams to identify architectural dependencies; document and communicate dependencies as tasks for execution.
• Collaborate with technical team to break large product goals into smaller Epics, features and stories or similar work items.
• Identify project risks that arise from product development and escalate to project manager.
• Work as liaison between Yahara and clients to facilitate, encourage, motivate User Acceptance Testing, gather testing feedback, prioritizing bug fixes, and negotiating acceptance from the client.
• Manage, mentor, and develop software requirements analyst staff, including conducting performance reviews and career development planning.
• Collaborate with project coordinators to lead scrum cadences as PC’s develop such as stand ups, backlog grooming and estimation, sprint planning and sprint close demos. Lead scrum meetings in the absence of a PC.
• Foster a collaborative team environment and ensure knowledge sharing among software requirements analyst staff.
• Represent Requirement Analysts with other department leads as we improve project team cohesion.
• Serve in a multifaceted leadership role with potential oversight of Quality Assurance processes and team members.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to establish and refine software requirements analyst methodologies, processes, and best practices.
• Actively participate in leadership team meetings and contribute to strategic organizational decisions.
• Stay up to date and incorporate learnings from industry standard entities for software development best practices.
• Facilitate the adoption and refinement of effective new processes to maintain our industry leading software development processes.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Business Analyst Manager