Thursday, January 21, 2010

Zed USA - Business Analyst

Business Analyst/Product Engineer, Zed USA - Downtown Denver
Posted by: "Sarah George" Sarah.George@zed.COM

Zed USA (www.zed.com ), the world's largest provider of digital media, currently has a full time opportunity for a Business Analyst/Product Engineer. If you are interested please send resume and salary requirements to USACareers@zed.com .

MISSION:

Responsible for gathering and translating both technical and functional requirements throughout the office. Assist Project Managers in coordinating tasks and initiatives throughout the office.


MAIN DUTIES / FUNCTIONS:

Works with Product Managers, Marketing Managers and other project stakeholders to identify, define and specify business requirements
Performs analysis to identify levels of effort based on requirements
Generates use cases, detailed systems requirements, ERDs, sequence diagrams and logical/object data models
Consults on developing or augmenting process flows, methods and procedures
Facilitates project scoping and determination of solution approaches.
Help Project Manager control the scope of projects
Help Project Manager coordinate tasks and initiatives with all other departments involved in a project (Business Development, QA, Content, Product Management)
Be intimately familiar with company systems and applications to provide a relatively high level of expertise on any given application
Wire-framing and use case scenarios may be expected on certain mobile and web projects

Requirements gathering and translating, work with product team to obtain work requests and translate these into detailed work items in a product backlog.

Must be familiar with Agile concepts of story points, user stories, product backlog and sprint backlog.

Work with Product Managers and Project Managers to understand product backlog and be able to provide expertise and leadership around priority of work items.

Must be a self starter, must be able to understand the vision of a product and organize requirements and backlog items appropriately at times without assistance from Product or Project management.


QUALIFICATION / KNOWLEDGE:

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field required



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

3-5 related years work experience working in all stages if the SDLC

Experience within Agile methodology preferred.


SKILLS:

Strong knowledge of class diagrams, ERDs and UML preferred

Experience within Agile methodology preferred.



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