Are you an experienced Business Analyst in search of your next contract opportunity? Our high-profile client is seeking to hire a Business Analyst to join their talented team on a 6-month contract with a strong probability of extension. Apply for this amazing opportunity if this sounds like a good fit for you!
Advantages
What’s in it for you!
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As a consultant with our client, you’ll receive:
- Highly competitive market hourly rates
- A 6 month contract with a strong probability of extension
- Remote interview process
Responsibilities
Requirements Management
Understand all requirements associated with a new EPIC or Initiative.
Work with Product Manager/Owner and Sr Developers/Leads on documenting requirements associated with a particular initiative or
EPIC.
Develop and maintain functional specifications or “How to Use This Feature” documentation (when appropriate).
Manage and lead the requirements gathering sessions.
Ticket Development & Refinement
Create and refine detailed User Stories consistent with the High Level Requirements noted in the associated EPIC.
Refine Stories as needed so that they have required detailed to be actioned by the full scrum team.
Elicit and document ticket dependencies, ensuring that information is tagged correctly and captured in the Dependency Huddle board.
Ensure all stories meet the agreed “Definition of Ready” before being taken into sprint planning session
Note: for Critical tickets brought in mid sprint, analyze and refine ticket to mitigate risk of ticket issues
Contribute to work estimates as appropriate so that sprint planning is effective.
Maintain a “healthy” backlog consistent with agreed upon targets for INTL. (2 Sprints ahead).
Manage and lead the ticket refinement process.
Partnering with Third Party Teams (internal/external)
Facilitate necessary conversations with teams outside of INTL, ensuring necessary tickets are created to address the requirements.
Facilitate meetings with third parties as required to ensure the work is progressing in such a way as to meet overall EPIC or Project
timelines.
Ensure cross team collaboration is occurring as needed and that any blockers are resolved or escalated as appropriate to keep the
work progressing.
Close out as required and per agreed prioritization (set by the Product Manager/Owner) any outstanding issues that exist post go-live
i.e How-To documents
Process Improvement:
Help ensure a continual process improvement focus exists across the team, supporting an environment of experimentation and new
practice trials.
Ensure consistency with lulu’s INTL common practices.
Contribute to and lead Process Improvement activities as appropriate and per PI roadmap plans, etc.
Partner with peer Business Analysts to share and leverage lessons learned, fostering a PI culture at all times.
Test Plan Review
Review Test plan to ensure acceptance criteria is clearly noted
ensure they can be linked back to requirements
Operations Support
When applicable, ensure third party information is up-to-date related to scheduled maintenance windows/planned outages:
When applicable, ensure third party contact/issue resolution information is up-to-date
Quarterly Planning
Review initial Business and Technical ‘EPIC’ requirements as part of pre planning and carry out detailed analysis in order to determine
solution and specific stakeholder requirements
Analyze platform and functionality along with facilitating as needed discussions with UX, Engineering and external teams (CoE,
SRE, Analytics) in order to determine solution requirements, dependencies and risks
Communicate findings to Product Manager and support the updating of EPIC details and initial creation of user stories based on this
analysis
During quarterly planning provide QA and Engineering teams with details of analysis as needed in order to support the team in
providing as accurate a LOE as possible given available information
For any assumptions made for new business requirements, clarify and confirm assumptions with the SME stakeholder group and/or
conduct the analysis required to confirm the assumption is accurate
Support the Scrum Master in creation of intake requests for external teams as needed
Qualifications
Retail Experience - preferably lower funnel (checkout, order management, fulfillment)
Past Retail Industry (digital) experience – 2+ years.
“Lower Funnel” experience – specifically Cart, Checkout, Order Management, Fulfillment. This role right now is particularly heavy on Fulfillment Systems integration and capabilities so experience in that area of the domain is a plus.
This role is a bit more technical in nature – given the level of integrations that exist in this area of the site.
Proven ability to “anchor” a scrum team by facilitating refinement sessions and requirements review sessions.
Proven ability to write detailed tickets – that empower a multi-stack scrum team.
Proven ability to juggle multiple priorities at the same time.
Experience working closely with a Product Organization/Product Manager.
Openness to work in a “hybrid” environment – agile/waterfall methodology is used here.
Summary
If you are a Business Analyst and the prospect of joining a dedicated team intrigues you, then this role with our high-profile client could be the perfect opportunity for you.
Apply below or reach out to your Randstad representative for more information.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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Are you an experienced Business Analyst in search of your next contract opportunity? Our high-profile client is seeking to hire a Business Analyst to join their talented team on a 6-month contract with a strong probability of extension. Apply for this amazing opportunity if this sounds like a good fit for you!
Advantages
What’s in it for you!
As a consultant with our client, you’ll receive:
- Highly competitive market hourly rates
- A 6 month contract with a strong probability of extension
- Remote interview process
Responsibilities
Requirements Management
Understand all requirements associated with a new EPIC or Initiative.
Work with Product Manager/Owner and Sr Developers/Leads on documenting requirements associated with a particular initiative or
EPIC.
Develop and maintain functional specifications or “How to Use This Feature” documentation (when appropriate).
Manage and lead the requirements gathering sessions.
Ticket Development & Refinement
Create and refine detailed User Stories consistent with the High Level Requirements noted in the associated EPIC.
Refine Stories as needed so that they have required detailed to be actioned by the full scrum team.
...
Elicit and document ticket dependencies, ensuring that information is tagged correctly and captured in the Dependency Huddle board.
Ensure all stories meet the agreed “Definition of Ready” before being taken into sprint planning session
Note: for Critical tickets brought in mid sprint, analyze and refine ticket to mitigate risk of ticket issues
Contribute to work estimates as appropriate so that sprint planning is effective.
Maintain a “healthy” backlog consistent with agreed upon targets for INTL. (2 Sprints ahead).
Manage and lead the ticket refinement process.
Partnering with Third Party Teams (internal/external)
Facilitate necessary conversations with teams outside of INTL, ensuring necessary tickets are created to address the requirements.
Facilitate meetings with third parties as required to ensure the work is progressing in such a way as to meet overall EPIC or Project
timelines.
Ensure cross team collaboration is occurring as needed and that any blockers are resolved or escalated as appropriate to keep the
work progressing.
Close out as required and per agreed prioritization (set by the Product Manager/Owner) any outstanding issues that exist post go-live
i.e How-To documents
Process Improvement:
Help ensure a continual process improvement focus exists across the team, supporting an environment of experimentation and new
practice trials.
Ensure consistency with lulu’s INTL common practices.
Contribute to and lead Process Improvement activities as appropriate and per PI roadmap plans, etc.
Partner with peer Business Analysts to share and leverage lessons learned, fostering a PI culture at all times.
Test Plan Review
Review Test plan to ensure acceptance criteria is clearly noted
ensure they can be linked back to requirements
Operations Support
When applicable, ensure third party information is up-to-date related to scheduled maintenance windows/planned outages:
When applicable, ensure third party contact/issue resolution information is up-to-date
Quarterly Planning
Review initial Business and Technical ‘EPIC’ requirements as part of pre planning and carry out detailed analysis in order to determine
solution and specific stakeholder requirements
Analyze platform and functionality along with facilitating as needed discussions with UX, Engineering and external teams (CoE,
SRE, Analytics) in order to determine solution requirements, dependencies and risks
Communicate findings to Product Manager and support the updating of EPIC details and initial creation of user stories based on this
analysis
During quarterly planning provide QA and Engineering teams with details of analysis as needed in order to support the team in
providing as accurate a LOE as possible given available information
For any assumptions made for new business requirements, clarify and confirm assumptions with the SME stakeholder group and/or
conduct the analysis required to confirm the assumption is accurate
Support the Scrum Master in creation of intake requests for external teams as needed
Qualifications
Retail Experience - preferably lower funnel (checkout, order management, fulfillment)
Past Retail Industry (digital) experience – 2+ years.
“Lower Funnel” experience – specifically Cart, Checkout, Order Management, Fulfillment. This role right now is particularly heavy on Fulfillment Systems integration and capabilities so experience in that area of the domain is a plus.
This role is a bit more technical in nature – given the level of integrations that exist in this area of the site.
Proven ability to “anchor” a scrum team by facilitating refinement sessions and requirements review sessions.
Proven ability to write detailed tickets – that empower a multi-stack scrum team.
Proven ability to juggle multiple priorities at the same time.
Experience working closely with a Product Organization/Product Manager.
Openness to work in a “hybrid” environment – agile/waterfall methodology is used here.
Summary
If you are a Business Analyst and the prospect of joining a dedicated team intrigues you, then this role with our high-profile client could be the perfect opportunity for you.
Apply below or reach out to your Randstad representative for more information.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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