Business Analyst/Scrum Master

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Building cities. Driving commerce. Saving lives. For over 100 years, Allison Transmission has powered the vehicles and technology that move our world forward.

What powers us? Our employees. From the first person hired by James Allison in 1915 to the thousands across the globe who work for Allison today, we’re driving progress everywhere because we employ top talent worldwide.

Learn more about this role and how you can begin driving your career forward!

Benefits:

The below list features some of the benefits currently available. Eligibility may be subject to the terms and conditions of governing documents and available benefits may be subject to change at the company’s discretion.

Choice of medical plans with prescription coverage

Employer HSA contribution

Dental & Vision Insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Short & Long-Term Disability

Other voluntary benefits including: Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Identity Theft Protection and Pet Insurance

401K with generous Company match & contribution

Accrued Paid Time Off

12 Paid Holidays

8 hours paid volunteer time per year

Robust employee wellness program

Tuition assistance program & Dependent scholarship program

On-site blood drives

Voluntary employee groups open to all who wish to participate, including: Global Women’s Network, Emerging Professionals ERG, Multicultural ERG, Veterans ERG, Toastmasters Club, and more.

Job Description:

As a Business Analyst with Scrum Master skills, you will work closely with stakeholders to gather detailed requirements and translate them into actionable user stories. You will play a crucial role in optimizing business processes, identifying opportunities for automation, and aligning those optimizations with the product backlog. Additionally, you will provide essential Scrum Master support to development teams, ensuring effective collaboration and timely delivery of projects. You will also oversee comprehensive testing efforts, including drafting and executing test cases, managing defects, and supporting user acceptance testing (UAT).

Key Responsibilities:

Gather requirements from the key stakeholders by using requirement elicitation techniques like brainstorming, requirement workshops and focus groups

Validate requirements by cross-referencing them with other stakeholders and try to obtain a buy-in. Create and maintained RTM and User interface specification (UI specification)

Analyze and interpret requirements for their viability against the business objective

Serve as a key interface between the business and technical teams translating business processes and requirements into technical requirements and specifications

Document requirements by creating use cases, functional and requirement specifications documents, categorize requirements as functional, non-functional and technical requirements

Gain requirements sign-off from the key stakeholders

Identify training needs by evaluating strengths and weaknesses

Translate requirements into training needs that will close gaps with functional adoption

Prepare end-user documentation/manuals

Lead and manage QA and User Acceptance Testing from preparing comprehensive test plans and test scripts

Ability to Create test scripts and perform System Testing and to verify product functionality

Execute test scripts to perform Integrated System Testing and Acceptance testing

Review detail design documents, test plans and test scripts to ensure system implementation meets requirements

Apply a structured methodology and lead OCM activities required by a project or initiative. Design, Develop, Deliver and Manage all communication needs for IT Program / Projects

Conducts change impact analyses, assess change readiness, identify key stakeholders and impacted user community for change management

Identify and manage anticipated resistance

Integrate change management activities into project plan

Evaluate and ensure user readiness

Define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress

Key Skills:

Analysis, Visualization, and prototyping skills

Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences

Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships at all levels of stakeholders

Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal

Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations

Familiarity with project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle

Ability to work with Agile / Scrum team and traditional waterfall methodology project teams

Ability to draft user stories by converting high level epics/features/scope

Good command over spoken and written communication

Elicitation and interviewing skills

Problem-solving and analytical thinking

Facilitation and observational skills

Business structure knowledge

Process modeling skills

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in one of the following areas: Information Technology, Business, Computer Science, or equivalent experience

A minimum of 5+ years of experience in progressive Business Analysis/ Test Management/ IT Organizational Change Management roles

Allison Transmission is an equal opportunity employer. We have opportunities for all qualified applicants regardless of age, race, color, sex, religion, creed, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

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