Product Analyst

Apptad Inc; Virginia; On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptad Inc. seeks a skilled Business Analyst with mortgage-domain experience to bridge business and technical teams. You will map requirements, design end-to-end processes, and translate business needs into API-based specifications.

You will write user stories, support UAT, and contribute to both product and IT decisions, promoting a customer-centric Modern Delivery approach throughout the team.

Qualifications

• Experience translating business needs into technical requirements.
• Ability to design end-to-end process and data flows.
• Proficiency in writing clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Understanding of APIs and web services design and testing.
• Strong communication across business, IT, and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Interface between business and technical teams.
• Understand and apply the full SDLC lifecycle.
• Gather requirements and design processes/data flows.
• Create technical specs for Webservices/APIs.
• Perform feasibility analysis and support testing phases.
• Develop UAT strategies, test plans, and scripts.
• Participate in manual and automated testing efforts.
• Write user stories based on business and technical needs.
• Collaborate with Product Owner and IT team on decisions.
• Promote customer-centric mindset across the delivery team.

Skills

Mortgage experience

SDLC understanding

Requirement gathering

Process design

Data flow design

Business analysis

User stories

API requirements

API testing

Communication skills

Tools

Postman

SoapUI

Job description

Should have strong Mortgage experience

Can interface between business and technical teams

Understands the end-to-end software development life cycle (SDLC)

Experience in:

• Requirement gathering
• Process/data flow design
• Technical spec design (Webservices/API)
• Business analysis
• Translating business requirements to technical requirements
• Defining project objectives
• Feasibility analysis
• Supporting development, systems integration testing and user acceptance testing
• Creating and documenting UAT strategies/plans and test cases/scripts

Knowledge of manual and automation testing

Excellent communication and analytical skills

Experience in mortgage industry

Writes user stories based on business-driven functionality as well as technical capabilities

Provides constructive support to both Product Owner and IT team in product-related decisions

Encourages customer-centric mindset for entire Modern Delivery team

Supports team in development process, defining technical requirements based on in-depth and breath of product/business knowledge

Experience in writing requirements for API-based applications and proficient in using Postman/SoapUI or similar

Writes user stories based on business-driven functionality as well as technical capabilities

Understands and proactively utilizes Modern Delivery practices

Identifies and applies opportunities to improve teams Modern Delivery way of working

Roles & Responsibilities

Can interface between business and technical teams

Understands the end-to-end software development life cycle (SDLC)

Experience in:

• Requirement gathering
• Process/data flow design
• Technical spec design (Webservices/API)
• Business analysis
• Translating business requirements to technical requirements
• Defining project objectives
• Feasibility analysis
• Supporting development, systems integration testing and user acceptance testing
• Creating and documenting UAT strategies/plans and test cases/scripts

Knowledge of manual and automation testing

Excellent communication and analytical skills

Experience in mortgage industry

Writes user stories based on business driven functionality as well as technical capabilities

Provides constructive support to both Product Owner and IT team in product-related decisions

Encourages customer-centric mindset for entire Modern Delivery team

Supports team in development process, defining technical requirements based on in-depth and breath of product/business knowledge

Partners with Team Development Lead to create project/process specifications

Writes user stories based on business-driven functionality as well as technical capabilities

Understands and proactively utilizes Modern Delivery practices

Identifies and applies opportunities to improve teams

Modern Delivery way of working