Job description
Position : Requirements Analyst – Remote but San Diego time zone
Location : San Diego, CA
Duration : 12 Months
Total Hours/week : 40.00
1st Shift
Client : Medical Devices Company
Job Category : Engineering/Technical
Level of Experience : Mid-Level
Employment Type : Contract on W2 (Need US Citizens or GC Holders or GC EAD or OPT or EAD or CPT)
Job Description:
- The primary responsibilities of the requirement analyst will be managing and prioritizing the product backlog and developing detailed requirements, stories, and tasks.
- To accomplish this, you will work with the market product team to define and document product and feature requirements; liaise with the customers of the platform to ensure that issues and defects are triaged, prioritized, and remediated; collaborate with other Requirement Analysts to manage release coordination activities and partner for value delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Requirements Definition & Analysis: Develop crisp product and feature scope documents that can be used to drive product specifications and architecture, ensuring a clear understanding of product objectives and priorities for the product owner and development team.
- Backlog Management: Work with the product manager to prepare and prioritize the product backlog to ensure efficient workflow and alignment with the product vision and business value.
- Stakeholder Communication: Keep clients and collaborators informed on product status and lead product release plans, setting expectations for new functionalities.
- Project Management & Dependency Oversight: Provide active leadership in mitigating impediments, ensuring governance for change management, leading adjustments to the plan, and managing dependencies to facilitate successful completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
- Drive the team culture to a relentless desire for process improvement including being ready to accept feedback and quickly adjust course accordingly.
- Participate in executing technical and/or cross-functional project work.
- Understand customer needs through literature review, customer interviews, direct observation, and competitive analysis.
- Translate customer needs into software engineering requirements, product brief documents and feature brief documents into specific product, packaging and process specifications.
Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a similar field
- Master's Degree Preferred
- 3-5 years of experience in Requirement Analyst, Product Owner, Product Manager or related roles is required
- 3-5 years of experience working with PaaS or SaaS products
- Strong understanding of cloud computing, APIs, and developer tools.
- Demonstrated ability to utilize work management software such as Jira, Azure Dev Ops, or Aha!
- Demonstrated ability working within an agile software development environment
- Effective communication and collaboration skills.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work in team settings.
- Good organizational and time management capabilities.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Creative thinking with a focus on product improvement.
- Understanding of product feature prioritization.
- Involvement in product roadmap development.