Description
Contract - Business Analyst/Product Owner
Rate: open
Location: Chicago, IL/Dallas, TX
Hybrid Role: 2 days in-office, 3 days remote
*We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role*
A prestigious financial company is seeking a BA/Product Owner with a focus on Open-source libraries and APIs. This role would also work with the product owner to build out and administer the security training program for developers. This role will also be a Product Owner to the Kanban team building remediations for the open-source library remediations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required. MBA/MS is a plus.
- CCBA, CBAP, and/or AAC certification is a plus.
- Around 7 to 11 years' experience in technical business analysis and Product Owner
- Experience with or exposure to Agile and software development.
- Preferred business experience in security practices and activities.
- Understanding and knowledge of security vulnerabilities and remediation actions
- Self-motivated and self-starting; working with little supervision and picking up new and unfamiliar concepts.
- Experience using Confluence and Jira.
- Experience of product owner of small teams (Kanban and Scrum)
- Experience with process modelling tools such as Visio.
- Knowledge and/or vested interest in security tools such Black Duck, Veracode, Code DX
- Knowledge and/or vested interest in cloud technologies; experience working with AWS
Responsibilities
- Act as a partner to both the business and the technology teams.
- Act as a Product Owner of a Kanban team for remediation of open-source library vulnerabilities
- Identify scope gaps and missing requirements by acquiring an in depth understanding of current state (ie, Legacy system) and future state.
- Lead the roll out and maintenance of the Veracode Labs program working closely with the application security team
- Identify product team dependencies and plan for resolution.
- Prepare for and lead requirement workshop discussions with vendor, stakeholders, and product owners.
- Lead requirement review sessions with product owners and stakeholders to verify the completeness and adequacy of requirements and use cases; assist in the development of acceptance criteria.
- Support or develop test plans and test cases; participate in test results verification.
- Participate in the final UAT following product deployment.
- Assist in building cross-team collaboration and define acceptance criteria for integrated components.
- Adhere to analysis best practices for epics and user stories.
- Perform requirements analysis, story decomposition, system integration analysis, and data flow design.
- Regularly engage in agile activities including sprint planning and backlog grooming. Act as an advisor to the Product owner regarding next steps and approvals.
- Build high quality user stories and acceptance criteria; work with scrum team to refine user stories.
- Ability to interact with a broad cross-section of personnel to explain and enforce security measures
- Helping outline the criteria for baseline assessments to be applied when reviewing system security compliance