System/ Business Analyst (Remote)

Spark Equation is a software-enabled IT and strategy consulting firm operating at the intersection of strategy, product design, and engineering to optimize solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. We harness data, analytics, and engineering expertise to give organizations a clear path to gain industry leadership and improve performance.

We believe in Building Software That Works® through precision, innovation, and an engineering mindset. Engaging and empowering intelligent, bold, and passionate people to do the right things, a better way.

We are in search of an experienced Business Analyst able to make a significant contribution to the development of the products we are working on.

Primary responsibilities:

• Actively collaborate with Solution Owner in identifying and describing requirements
• Collaborate with the Project Manager and Solution Owner to prioritize requirements
• Describe the subject area and prepare the business process model
• Prepare functional and integration specifications
• Analyze the system requirements for integrity and consistency
• Participate in preparation and approval of mock-ups
• Interact proactively with developers and QA, answer questions, and clarify requirements
• Participate in resolving user queries and incidents.
• Participate in user story acceptance testing

What we expect from you:

• At least 5 years of working experience
• Understanding of SDLC and experience in Scrum/Agile environment
• Verbal and written English at Upper-Intermediate level or higher
• Willingness to build effective processes in requirements analysis
• Ability to build business processes models and analyze requirements to IT systems using modeling notations
• General understanding of web technologies, software architecture, and modern trends in software development
• Ability to communicate clearly and short, speak both the language of business and the engineering language
• Experience in task decomposition and estimation in cooperation with the development team
• Experience in writing functional and integration specifications
• Proactive and result-oriented approach
• High multitasking skills
• Flexibility, desire to learn and dive quickly into new subject areas

It will be a plus:

• Experience in JIRA and Confluence
• Engineering experience

We offer:

• Challenging tasks, an opportunity for career and professional growth
• Work on constantly evolving projects in an Agile environment
• A team of strong engineering professionals (Middle+)
• Opportunity to influence the product development
• Work with American small and medium businesses
• Competitive salary
• Official employment
• Medical benefits
• Budget for learning