Sr. Technical Business Analyst

FCP Euro is seeking an experienced Sr. Technical Business Analyst to join our Software Engineering Team. This is a new role, and we are looking for a trailblazer who knows what excellence looks like and is interested in building out the BA function here at FCP Euro. In this position, you will be building the process and setting standards by which we operate. You will be THE analyst who gets to set the tone for the others who may follow behind you in the future.  This will require you to be process-oriented, innovative, and possess a critical-thinking mindset. You will have the opportunity to work with stakeholders at all levels of the organization translating ideas into software and creating verifiable revenue growth. You will be rewarded with a sense of pride knowing you have created something beneficial to our most prized stakeholder, the actual customer.

FCP Euro is an online automotive parts retailer headquartered in Milford, Connecticut. FCP stands for "Foreign Car Parts," and we specialize in replacement parts for European vehicles.  In the past 10 years, FCP Euro has earned a spot on the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies list eight times. Customer service is deeply rooted in our core values.  FCP Euro is a customer and technology company, and this unique blended culture has yielded outstanding results worthy of reward and recognition. We are devoted to developing and maintaining user-friendly and accurate automotive catalogs. We have an incredible enthusiasm for what we do, and we are always looking for ways to grow, learn, and improve.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Translate business wants and needs from loose conceptual requirements to well-thought-out functional requirements.
• Conduct project management in an Agile scrum workflow demonstrating efficiency in grooming, estimation, planning, and execution. 
• Creation of user stories and facilitate the grooming process of user stories through, “Dev Ready” status. 
• Facilitate meetings to gather input and provide stakeholders with project progress, risks, or issues.
• Analyze metric data to make decisions on priority and provide baseline metrics to demonstrate feature success.  
• Support Software releases and DevOps through the release verification process.  
• Conduct functional/shakeout/ UAT QA Testing in and outside of the sprint.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems or the equivalent in work experience
• Minimum of 5+ years of related experience
• Strong knowledge and experience with Agile Scrum and the SDLC.  
• Able to translate business wants and needs into functional requirements.  
• Excellent communication skills include 3-5 years of experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders.   
• Experience working with Engineers and conducting QA validation.  
• Possess a critical thinking mindset. 
• Familiarity with software development tools and monitoring software such as JIRA, Confluence, Cloudflare, Datadog, Rollbar, Google Analytics and Tag Manager 
• 30% travel required.