Product Owner / Agile Business Analyst (Insurance)

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Job description

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Position overview
The Product Owner / Agile Business Analyst role is to plan and elicit requirements from business stakeholders in the form of epics and stories, ensure stakeholders understand business value and required outcomes, and to ensure requirements are communicated and understood by the entire project team.
Job Function/Day to Day
Facilitate the discovery of functional and non-functional requirements and document in the form of epics, stories, wireframes, diagrams, process flows, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
Build, organize and maintain the project/team backlog over the course of the project, often serving as a partner and mentor for a client Product Owner.
Develop user stories from prioritized features in collaboration with Product Manager and Business Stakeholders
Identify, communicate, and break down features into an MVP and roadmap.
Strive to maintain a holistic view of product and ensure that the end-to-end experience is strong
Facilitate the ongoing backlog grooming process, including defining business value and priority and organizing/selecting stories for upcoming sprints and organizing the backlog into a high-level release roadmap.
Ensuring stories are "ready " for upcoming sprints.
Communicate requirements to stakeholders; ensure developers and testers understand the stories and have a common understanding on how the user story will be built, implemented, and tested.
Analyze new requests from stakeholders and determine if the request is a new story, a modification to an existing story, or already covered in an existing story and add to backlog as appropriate.
Participate in all scrum ceremonies. Facilitate team level ceremonies and events.
Train team on requirements processes and tools in use for the project. Provide thought leadership to teams and exercise leadership.
Provide coaching and mentoring to agile teams and Jr Product Owners.
Ensure requirements cover the scope as defined in the SOW. Identify deviations from the SOW and communicate to project leadership in support of the change control process.
Establish a requirements management strategy for the project, which describes; process for elicitation, documentation standards and format, tools, meeting cadence, backlog grooming process, review & approval process, change process, and communications processes.
Perform functional testing
Review testing issues and determine if the issue is a bug or behaving as expected
Write user acceptance test UAT scripts
Facilitate user acceptance testing
Write training materials and train new users
Assist with content entry and verification tasks
Support portfolio product alignment across Teams within the same ART or Portfolio.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience
5yrs experience as Product Owner for software projects
5yrs experience as Agile Business Analyst for software projects
1-3yrs experience as Product Owner for more than one Team simultaneously
Insurance background preferred
Product Owner certification preferred.
SAFe certification preferred.
Experience with Agile management tools a plus (e.g. VersionOne, Jira, Jira Align, Rally)