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job summary: Randstad Technologies is seeking a skilled Business Analyst for a contract role in Seattle, WA. If you are ready to join a leader in the Retail and Technology space, please apply and Randstad will be more than happy to assist in helping you land your next role. We look forward to speaking with you!   location: SEATTLE, Washington job type: Contract salary: $55 - 60 per hour work hours: 8am to 4pm education: Bachelors   responsibilities: Business Analyst/SA: Requirements Management Understand all requirements associated with a new EPIC or Initiative.Work with Product Manager/Owner and Sr Developers/Leads on documenting requirements associated with a particular initiative or EPIC. Develop and maintain functional specifications or "How to Use This Feature" documentation (when appropriate).Manage and lead the requirements gathering sessions. Ticket Development & Refinement Create and refine detailed User Stories consistent with the High Level Requirements noted in the associated EPIC.Refine Stories as needed so that they have required detailed to be actioned by the full scrum team.Elicit and document ticket dependencies, ensuring that information is tagged correctly and captured in the Dependency Huddle board. Ensure all stories meet the agreed "Definition of Ready" before being taken into sprint planning session Note: for Critical tickets brought in mid sprint, analyze and refine ticket to mitigate risk of ticket issues Contribute to work estimates as appropriate so that sprint planning is effective. Maintain a "healthy" backlog consistent with agreed upon targets for INTL. (Q22021=1 sprint ahead, Q32021=2 sprints ahead)Manage and lead the ticket refinement process. Partnering with Third Party Teams (internal/external) Facilitate necessary conversations with teams outside of INTL, ensuring necessary tickets are created to address the requirements. Facilitate meetings with third parties as required to ensure the work is progressing in such a way as to meet overall EPIC or Project timelines.Ensure cross team collaboration is occurring as needed and that any blockers are resolved or escalated as appropriate to keep the work progressing. Close out as required and per agreed prioritization (set by the Product Manager/Owner) any outstanding issues that exist post go-live i.e How-To documents Process Improvement: Help ensure a continual process improvement focus exists across the team, supporting an environment of experimentation and new practice trials.Ensure consistency with lulu's INTL common practices. Contribute to and lead Process Improvement activities as appropriate and per PI roadmap plans, etc. Partner with peer Business Analysts to share and leverage lessons learned, fostering a PI culture at all times. Test Planning Partner with QA's to ensure acceptance criteria is clearly noted in the associated test plans When applicable work with QA's to create test cases and ensure they can be linked back to requirements Operations Support When applicable, ensure third party information is up-to-date related to scheduled maintenance windows/planned outages: When applicable, ensure third party contact/issue resolution information is up-to-date: INTL - Third Party Services / Vendor contacts & Escalation Quarterly Planning Review initial Business 'EPIC' requirements as part of pre planning and carry out detailed analysis in order to determine solution and specific stakeholder requirements Analyze platform and functionality along with facilitating as needed discussions with UX, Engineering and external teams (CoE, SRE, Analytics) in order to determine solution requirements, dependencies and risksCommunicate findings to Product Manager nd support the updating of EPIC details and initial creation of user stories based on this analysis During quarterly planning provide QA and Engineering teams with details of analysis as needed in order to support the team in providing as accurate a LOE as possible given available informationFor any assumptions made for new business requirements, clarify and confirm assumptions with the SME stakeholder group and/or conduct the analysis required to confirm the assumption is accurate Support the Scrum Master in creation of intake requests for external teams as needed   qualifications: Experience level: ExperiencedMinimum 3 years of experienceEducation: Bachelors  skills: Business AnalysisBusiness Systems AnalystSalesforce Commerce CloudRetail Technology (1 year of experience is required)E-commerce (1 year of experience is required) Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status. For certain assignments, Covid-19 vaccination and/or testing may be required by Randstad's client or applicable federal mandate, subject to approved medical or religious accommodations. Carefully review the job posting for details on vaccine/testing requirements or ask your Randstad representative for more information.

job summary: Job Description:Tell us about your department: The Ad Engineering department builds and optimizes advertisings products that enable to scale its Media business. They also strive to: - Deliver the right message, in the right place, at the right time for customers to discover and learn about relevant products and pricing. - Connect our partners with our customers in an authentic way that provides clear value through sales, data and insights. - Generate high-margin revenue to offer lower prices and fund new initiatives to better serve our customers.  location: Seattle, Washington job type: Contract salary: $45 - 55 per hour work hours: 8am to 4pm education: Bachelors   responsibilities: - Ensure the quality of all digital products by performing functional, design, copy, accessibility, cross-platform, data integration and regression testing - Work with the Technical Project Manager, Project Manager and QA Lead to verify all customer and business requirements and participate in sprint planning and feedback for all product releases - Validate and troubleshoot reported bugs and clearly communicate problems and severity to appropriate development personnel - Validate the full list of business rules and/or functional specifications documentation against the application being tested - Document defects/issues in JIRA, including relevant brief descriptions of the issue with detailed steps to replicate - Create test plans and manage and process bug reports per project - Provide estimates for small or large projects including level of testing effort and hours required - Interpret and convert feedback from non-technical staff and customer service groups into actionable items for the development team - Attend project stand-ups and QA team check-ins to provide status updates on projects - Maintain working relationships with people in a wide variety of functional areas - Along with the DevOps team, help in the addition and continuation of automated tools into the continuous building process system - Stay abreast of new browsers and technologies How much time will the resource spend pair programming? Pair Programming will be conducted using MS Teams and Slack. This individual would partner with the QA member and developer already on the Digital Advertising team to complete all task and learn responsibilities and duties. Plan on spending 1-2 weeks in pair programming Skills Overview: What are the Top skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job? - 2-5+ years exp in web development testing - 2-5+ years exp in Mobile Testing (Android, iOS) - 5+ years exp in integration testing - Previous cross platform tool experience (ReactNative, Xamarin, Flutter, etc.) - Functional knowledge of xCode and Android Studio (Need to know how to operate the tool) - Experience with a Enterprise-level test tracking platform (i.e. Testrail) - Experience writing and updating Test Cases. - Have experience reading code (Swift, Java, JS, React) - Experience with Build Integration tools (Jenkins, Maven) - Experience working with/editing Confluence Documentation wikis. - Experience with A/B testing. - Experience with Jira. (Ticket reading, creating, flow). - Digital Advertising Experience is a plus - Functional knowledge of API Validation Testing (curL commands, Postman) - Data integration testing - Functional knowledge of Charles proxy / Fiddler experience (Need to know how to operate the tool) - Functional knowledge of Web Development Testing and Tools - QA automation desired, but this is a manual role Essential Skills: - Prior defect trending and triage experience - Exposure to multi-platform and hardware device testing - Familiarity with Agile methodologies - Self-motivated, able to work independently and thrive in a fast-paced, high-stress and high-productivity environment - Able to manage conflicting priorities effectively, including task prioritization and multitasking to manage daily workload - Attention to detail, thoroughness, tenacity and strong organizational skills - Knowledgeable about trends for new embedded hardware solutions, mobile devices and/or other digital applications - strong written and verbal communication skills with a proven ability to interact with technical, business, editorial and customer service groups - Familiarity with automated QA testing tools is a plus Your Qualifications - BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or at least 5 years of experience. - strong aptitude for learning new technologies and testing techniques - Able to adapt to changes in product development as well as flexibility to work outside of normal business hours to meet testing needs. What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for? Essential Skills: - Experience   qualifications: Experience level: ExperiencedMinimum 5 years of experienceEducation: Bachelors  skills: Integrating testingMobile TestingReact Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status. For certain assignments, Covid-19 vaccination and/or testing may be required by Randstad's client or applicable federal mandate, subject to approved medical or religious accommodations. Carefully review the job posting for details on vaccine/testing requirements or ask your Randstad representative for more information.

job summary: As a Product Owner and Business Analyst (PO/BA), you will be joining a collaborative project Agile team within the Master Data Management group. Our team designs business systems that store and manage core reference data, including location, customer, and vendor information for our global network. Our organization has branches around the world, so the importance of data integrity and consistency is paramount. This is an opportunity for you to be on a high-performing team that serves as the center-point for consistent, real-time data for our systems. As the Product Owner and Business Analyst on the 10-person agile team, you will be responsible for prioritizing the team backlog, helping the team to understand stories and acceptance criteria, and working with business stakeholders. By working with Product Managers to define the business features you will have the knowledge to help the team understand the business requirements, create business object models, and analyze the data to help create valuable solutions. As the bridge between business and development you will be translating the business needs into realistic development work. As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to become certified in SAFe methodology. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience5+ years of software business analysis experienceWorking knowledge of the UML (Unified Modeling Language) with the ability to effectively communicate business requirements through Business Object Models, State Diagrams, and other UML diagramsProficiency with the system development lifecycle, including agile techniques and other methodologiesProven interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectivelyEffective at navigating ambiguity and helping diverse teams drive towards clarity and consensusManagement of multiple and competing prioritiesAbility to compose concepts, ideas, and designs into actionable/measureable deliverablesExcellent time management and organization skillsOutstanding verbal and written communicationAbility to recognize and mitigate risksDesire to help the team succeed as a whole DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS System or Data analysis experienceUnderstanding of the transportation/global logistics industryWorking knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, Azure Dev Ops, SharePointPassion for technologyExperience as a Product Owner for an Agile teamExperience working with Reference Data and Data Governance products   location: Seattle, Washington job type: Permanent salary: $95,000 - 135,000 per year work hours: 8am to 4pm education: Bachelors   responsibilities: Support the Agile team with business knowledge and analyst expertiseHelp the team to deliver a minimum viable product that meets the user's needsCollaborate with MDM Product Managers to define business features to be ready for development with requirements and acceptance criteriaBuild, refine, and maintain the team backlog in alignment with the program visionCommunicate business details to the Agile teamCollaborate with other Product Owners and Business Stakeholders to resolve dependencies, coordinate efforts, and deliver cross-functional initiatives and technical enablersAnalyze and decompose complex business requirements to build software systems and influence design for testability and scalabilityParticipate in team demos, reviews and retrospectives with an eye toward continuous improvement   qualifications: Experience level: ExperiencedMinimum 5 years of experienceEducation: Bachelors (required)  skills: Business AnalysisProduct ManagementUMLCommunicationSDLCAgile MethodologyAzure DevOpsSharePointData GovernanceData Analysis Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status. For certain assignments, Covid-19 vaccination and/or testing may be required by Randstad's client or applicable federal mandate, subject to approved medical or religious accommodations. Carefully review the job posting for details on vaccine/testing requirements or ask your Randstad representative for more information.