Business Analyst / Product Owner (Airline)
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About the Role
Cognizant is seeking a Business Analyst / Product Owner for an airline client in Abu Dhabi. The role involves defining and prioritizing user stories, working with agile scrum teams, and ensuring features meet acceptance criteria.
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Responsibilities
- Work with the Senior Product Manager to contribute to the product strategy, vision and roadmap
- Review and prioritise the team backlog as part of Iteration Planning, including coordinating dependencies with other Product Owners
- Continuously improve the backlog with the team, ensure all items are clearly described, estimated, and prioritised
- Ensure the scrum team understands the required features and functionality to be delivered in each iteration
- Detail features and user stories with acceptance criteria and acceptance tests
- Accept features and user stories, validating they meet acceptance criteria and Definition of Done
- Facilitate regular demos with the team ensuring critical aspects are shown to stakeholders
- Facilitate iteration retrospectives and drive discussions on improvements
- Maintain system training course material and conduct trainings as part of new system roll outs and refreshers
Requirements
- 3+ years’ experience working in product development
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or equivalent is preferable
- Certification in Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner or equivalent is desirable
- Experience with Agile development methodologies including SAFe, Scrum and Lean Portfolio Management
- Demonstrated success in defining, delivering and launching products
- Technical and business operations knowledge with proven ability to drive solutions
- Experience defining vision and strategy for a technical product
- Excellent communication and coordination skills
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About The Role Description
- This role reports to the Senior Product Manager.
- The Product Owner is responsible for defining and prioritising the user stories in the team backlog.
- They drive quality control and will validate that the stories delivered meet the defined acceptance criteria.
- They will work with the Product Manager to serve as the customer proxy and will support them in defining the product vision and roadmap.
- This role is a core team member of the agile scrum team.
- They will work with more than 1 scrum teams and will ensure the team understands the required features and functionality of products to be delivered in each iteration.
Accountabilities
- Work with the Senior Product Manager to contribute to the product strategy, vision and roadmap
- Review and prioritise the team backlog as part of Iteration Planning, including coordinating dependencies with other Product Owners. Responsible for accepting the final Iteration Plan
- Continuously improve the backlog with the team, ensure all items are clearly described, estimated, and prioritised
- Ensure the scrum team understands the required features and functionality to be delivered in each iteration
- Responsible for detailing features and user stories with acceptance criteria and acceptance tests
- Responsible for the acceptance of features and user stories, this includes validating that the stories meet the acceptance criteria, persistent acceptance tests, and that they comply with the Definition of Done (DoD)
- Facilitate regular demos with the team ensuring the most critical aspects are shown to the stakeholders
- Facilitate the iteration retrospectives and drive discussions on what can be improved to increase the velocity and quality
- Additional responsibility for maintaining system training course material and conducting trainings as part of new system roll outs and refreshers as required.
Education & Experience
- 3+ years’ experience working in product development
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or equivalent is preferable
- Certification in Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner or equivalent is desirable
- Experience with Agile development methodologies including SAFe, Scrum and Lean Portfolio Management
- Demonstrated success in defining, delivering and launching products
- Technical and business operations knowledge with proven ability to drive solutions
- Experience defining vision and strategy for a technical product
- Recognised as an active team player, with excellent communication and coordination skills as this role requires working with multiple teams across the organisation
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