This is a long term contract with a client of Qwinix working on a very leading edge technology project. 12months plus.
A Successful Product Owner Will Have The Following
1. BA/BS in a technical or business discipline (information systems, engineering, computer science, finance, business administration, or accounting)
2. 5-10 years of Product Owner, Product Manager, Systems Analyst, Business Analyst, Project Manager or equivalent combination of education and experience
3. Excellent organizational, facilitation, and written/verbal communication skills
4. Self-motivation with strong, proven, analytical and problem-solving skills
5. Ability to collaborate with cross-functional resources and work well in a distributed fast-paced environment
6. Demonstrated understanding of and experience using Agile processes and methodologies
7. Ability to plan for future work while maintaining the current delivery with rapidly changing priorities
8. Rally / CA Agile Central experience a plus
9. Technical proficiency in APIs (Postman, Swagger), Java, Reach/Redux, or other programming languages a plus
Primary Responsibilities Include
1. Lead and influence a cross functional team to ensure the team delivers products that meet business requirements/needs and delivers business and operational value to customers
2. Ensure product roadmap and vision are communicated to the development team
3. Break down and prioritize delivery of products and features by developing and maintaining the product backlog, user stories, and cross-product dependencies
4. Elicit, identify, document, and refine requirements from business problems to detailed user stories and acceptance criteria that may include technical requirements
5. Proactively communicate and collaborate with stakeholders, developers, QA, and other team members to analyze information and functional requirements, advocate the development process through to implementation, and ensure the delivered product meets business needs
6. Perform acceptance testing for user stories and features
7. Assist with deployments, troubleshooting, and production support issues
8. Collaborate with stakeholders/developers/QA during product development through implementation
9. Manage stakeholder needs & requests while balancing product roadmap priorities
10. Facilitate iteration planning sessions, daily team stand-ups, grooming sessions, and retros
11. Track and report on team work completed, capacity, backlog, velocity, etc.
12. Forecast product/feature delivery timelines
13. Use metrics and feedback to improve team and organization processes, best practices, performance, and delivery