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Summary:
We are seeking a highly organized and analytical Business Analyst to support an Agile software development team. This role serves as a key liaison between business stakeholders and the delivery team, with primary ownership of requirements clarity, acceptance criteria, sprint readiness, and stakeholder alignment. The Business Analyst plays a critical role in ensuring that work entering a sprint is well-defined and that delivered functionality meets business expectations.
Key Responsibilities
Requirements & Acceptance Criteria Ownership
- Elicit, analyze, and document business and functional requirements through stakeholder collaboration
- Write clear, testable user stories and own the quality and completeness of acceptance criteria, including edge cases, validations, and negative scenarios
- Review requirements and acceptance criteria with stakeholders to confirm intent and expectations prior to development
- Ensure backlog items are implementation-ready and aligned with agreed business outcomes
- Serve as a point of clarification for developers and QA throughout the sprint
- Participate in defect triage by determining whether issues stem from requirements gaps, design decisions, or implementation defects
Agile Delivery & Sprint Support
- Actively participate in Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Enforce a clear Definition of Ready, ensuring stories entering a sprint have sufficient clarity, scope, and acceptance criteria
- Track requirement progress throughout the sprint lifecycle and proactively surface risks, blockers, or scope concerns
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, QA, and UX to ensure alignment during delivery
- Prepare and deliver post-sprint reports, summarizing:
- Completed functionality
- Acceptance status
- Stakeholder feedback
- Open items, defects, or follow-up work
- Support release readiness by confirming requirements completion, acceptance, and stakeholder sign-off
Stakeholder Engagement & UAT Support
- Lead and facilitate meetings with business stakeholders to review requirements, scope, and delivered functionality
- Coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including:
- Preparing UAT scenarios
- Facilitating review sessions
- Documenting feedback and outcomes
- Act as a translator between business needs and technical implementation, ensuring shared understanding across teams
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 3+ years of experience as a Business Analyst supporting Agile software development teams
- Strong experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria
- Proven ability to lead meetings and facilitate discussions with diverse stakeholders
- Familiarity with Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and delivery artifacts
- Proficiency with tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitHub, or similar
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting or coordinating UAT activities
- Ability to analyze data and create clear, actionable reports
- Familiarity with SQL, reporting tools (PowerBI, Jira), or data analysis
- Experience working with cross-functional or distributed teams
Key Skills & Competencies
- Requirements elicitation and validation
- Acceptance criteria and quality ownership
- Agile delivery support and sprint readiness
- Stakeholder communication and facilitation
- Analytical thinking and problem-solving
- Strong written documentation and reporting skills
What This Role Owns
- Clarity before development begins
- Quality and acceptance definition
- Sprint readiness and follow-through
- Transparent communication of sprint outcomes
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- 401K benefits
- Short- & Long-Term Disability
- EAP
- Emergency Travel & Identity Theft Protection
- Life Insurance
- AD&D
- Collaborative and Motivated Team
Salary Range: $100,000-120,000 USD (commensurate with experience)
Fusion Worldwide is the preeminent open market distributor of electronic components and products. We source, inspect, test, and deliver a broad range of components to a large and diversified customer base that includes OEMs, CMs and ODMs across a wide array of verticals. Founded in 2001, Fusion is headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and maintains offices and quality centers around the world. For more information visit fusionww.com, or follow fusion Worldwide on LinkedIn, Instagram, WeChat, and X.
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