Apartments.com - Senior Technical Business Analyst

CoStar Group, Inc.; California; On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Product Analyst to lead discovery sessions and gather requirements for innovative consumer web products. In this dynamic role, you will collaborate with product managers, technical managers, and UX designers to create user stories and acceptance criteria that drive project success. You will also be responsible for facilitating technical design meetings and conducting user acceptance testing. This is an excellent opportunity to join a collaborative culture that values professional growth and offers generous compensation and performance-based incentives. If you are a self-directed individual with a passion for product development, this role is for you.

Benefits

Comprehensive healthcare coverage

401(K) retirement plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time off

On-site fitness center

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health counseling services

Commuter and parking benefits

Access to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion groups

Complimentary snacks and beverages

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Product, Systems, or Business analysis experience required.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery sessions and gather requirements for web products.
• Facilitate meetings with stakeholders and document technical solutions.

Skills

Product Analysis

Business Analysis

Agile/Scrum

User Acceptance Testing

Stakeholder Management

Software Coding

Wireframing

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Visio

SQL

Job description

• Lead discovery sessions between product managers, technical managers, and user experience designers to gather requirements to build market-leading consumer web products.
• Serve as product ambassador internally and externally, sharing knowledge and answering questions.
• Facilitate meetings with business stakeholders and product management to help build project charters, business processes, and business process activities.
• Gather business requirements and break them down into relevant, accurate, detailed, and consumable user stories that can be developed within an agile scrum framework.
• Write detailed Acceptance Criteria in the form of Behavior Driven Development scenarios for User Stories that can be understood by business stakeholders, software developers, and quality assurance analysts.
• Facilitate technical design meetings between different technical managers to help gather and document their technical solutions to the business problems for which you are defining requirements.
• Foster a high-level understanding of technical solutions so you can explain the solution to developers and Quality Assurance (QA) analysts.
• Participate in backlog refinement sessions with a scrum team to help explain and answer questions so they can accurately story point the delivery effort.
• Perform end-to-end User Acceptance Testing.
• Work closely with the product manager and technical manager to help create and shape release plans.
• Review automation tests and quality assurance test cases to ensure they cover the relevant business scenarios.
• Work with product managers to help define their key performance indicators (KPI) for new initiatives.
• Analyze and collect KPI metrics and reporting to be delivered to the product manager so they can report on the progress and success of their products and initiatives to senior management.
• Provide input and feedback on product roadmaps.
• Work with UX designers to help refine prototypes and/or high-fidelity mockups based on requirements you have gathered.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required from an accredited, not-for-profit university or college.
• A track record of commitment to prior employers.
• Minimum of 5+ years of Product, Systems, or Business analysis experience.
• 5+ years of Product Owner experience is a plus.
• This role is highly self-directed. Being capable of driving outcomes with very little supervision is a must.
• Software coding experience background is a plus.
• Occasionally, creating wireframes in a tool such as Visio is required for this role.
• Agile/Scrum experience is required.

Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• Previous project management experience is a plus.
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) is a plus.
• Understanding of relational data models and be comfortable writing basic SQL is a plus.

What’s in it for You

When you join CoStar Group, you’ll experience a collaborative and innovative culture working alongside the best and brightest to empower our people and customers to succeed.

We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. CoStar Group also invests in your professional and academic growth with internal training, tuition reimbursement, and an inter-office exchange program.

Our benefits package includes (but is not limited to):

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage: Medical/Vision/Dental/Prescription Drug.
• Life, legal, and supplementary insurance.
• Virtual and in-person mental health counseling services for individuals and family.
• Commuter and parking benefits.
• 401(K) retirement plan with matching contributions.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Paid time off.
• On-site fitness center and/or reimbursed fitness center membership costs (location dependent), with yoga studio, Pelotons, personal training, group exercise classes.
• Access to CoStar Group’s Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Employee Resource Groups.
• Complimentary gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, fresh fruit, and other healthy snacks.