Business Analyst

Communication

• Clarifying priorities
• Clarifying feature requests.
• Communicating status and blockers.
• Tight collaboration with the development and design teams.

Release Planning

• Supporting product back log (in JIRA).
• Supporting sprint backlogs for each team (in JIRA): this includes creating stories, moving stories and issued to other sprints when required, resolving stories. Excludes: tasks and issues creation/resolution.
• Organizing and performing grooming sessions.
• Defining scope for the nearest sprint/release (including JIRA update).
• Supporting planning meetings.

Documenting/managing requirements

• Communicating with (potential) users and management teams to gather and elicit requirements.
• Communicating data and other applications teams in case of integration to agree the interfaces.
• Creating/updating documents based on the requirements.
• Sharing documents and other information with the team and other stakeholders.

Story Acceptance

• Performing acceptance testing - ensuring the provided functionality satisfies customer needs/requirements (this includes validation and verification against acceptance criteria. Excludes: verification against specs and ensuring quality of the provided functionality)
• Making recommended go/no go decision for release (final decision is up to management)
• During UAT and PROD deployments: ensuring application has been deployed successfully (application can be launched; main new delivered items are available).

• Documentation skills
• Communication skills
• Readiness to business trips on-site to Customer
• UX/Usabiility principles understanding
• Agile/Scrum

Horizon is an advanced data visualization platform developed by Luxoft to create visually rich decision support solutions.

The use of data virtualization technologies (e.g. JBOSS TEIID) allows a seamless integration with existing sources: any data marts, relational databases, Excel files, etc. State of the art architecture allows rapid dashboard development and quick new data source addition without affecting existing applications. Full adoption of HTML5 enables Horizon to provide unified user experience across all devices and platforms including mobile.

Horizon Application - is a decision support, monitoring and business visualization solution, vertically aligned and implemented by Luxoft using Horizon Platform as an engine. The solution provides visualization to a specific domain problem and is a vertically oriented product that provides value to a specific group of business users. The application can be customized by Luxoft or independent software developers to meet specific customer needs, but the users is limited in changes and modification to preserve the original value of the UX and design.