Apartments - Technical Business Analyst

Company: CoStar Realty Information, Inc.
Location: Irvine
Posted on: May 16, 2022

Job Description:

Apartments - Technical Business AnalystJob DescriptionApartments.com - Technical Business AnalystApartments.com is the leading online apartment rental listing website, offering property, commuter, and neighborhood information for more than 1,000,000 available units nationwide. A CoStar Group subsidiary, the Apartments.com network includes Apartments.com, ForRent.com, ApartmentFinder.com, Apartamentos.com, ApartmentHomeLiving.com, ForRentUniversity.com, After55.com, CorporateHousing.com and WestsideRentals.com. Reaching millions of renters worldwide, enabling both qualified traffic and highly engaged renters, Apartments.com is the fastest growing site within the residential rental industry.**Major responsibilities:** + Lead discovery sessions between product managers, technical managers, and user experience designers to gather requirements to build market-leading consumer web products.+ Facilitate meetings with business stakeholders and product management to help build project charters, business processes, and business process activities.+ Gather business requirements and break them down into relevant, accurate, detailed, and consumable user stories that can be developed within an agile scrum framework.+ Write detailed Acceptance Criteria in the form of Behavior Driven Development scenarios for User Stories that can be understood by business stakeholders, software developers, and quality assurance analysts.+ Facilitate technical design meetings between different technical managers to help gather and document their technical solutions to the business problems for which you are defining requirements.+ Foster a high level understanding of technical solutions so you can explain the solution to developers and Quality Assurance (QA) analysts.+ Participate in backlog refinement sessions with a scrum team to help explain and answer questions so they can accurately story point the delivery effort.+ Perform end-to-end User Acceptance Testing including front end manual testing as well data validation in SQL and NoSQL stores.+ Work closely with the product manager and technical manager to help create and shape release plans.+ Review automation tests and quality assurance test cases to ensure they cover the relevant business scenarios.+ Work with product managers to help define their key performance indicators (KPI) for new initiatives.+ Be able to analyze and collect KPI metrics and reporting to be delivered to the product manager so they can report on the progress and success of their products and initiatives to senior management.+ Provide input and feedback on product roadmaps.+ Work with UX designers to help refine prototypes and/or high-fidelity mockups based on requirements you have gathered.**Qualifications** + 3+ years of Product, Systems, or Business analysis experience+ Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, MIS, computer science, or other related technical field.+ This role is highly self-directed. Being capable of driving outcomes with very little supervision is a must.+ Must understand relational data models and be comfortable writing basic SQL.+ Software coding experience background is a plus.+ Occasionally, creating wireframes in a tool such as Visio is required for this role.+ Agile/Scrum experience is required+ Previous project management experience is a plus\#LI-Hybrid\#LI-EW1_This position is in our Irvine, CA office and has the opportunity for hybrid work with up to two days remote per week. Four-day work weeks are also an option for those applicants that are interested._ CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testingFounded in 1987, CoStar Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:CSGP) is the leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics and online marketplaces.CoStar conducts expansive, ongoing research to produce and maintain the largest and most comprehensive database of commercial real estate information. CoStar data powers the $17 trillion world of real estate - delivering the sale, lease, property, tenant, contact, reporting and industry information that makes connections happen. We help our clients make smart investments and decisions. Eighty-three percent of the nation's commercial real estate transactions involve a CoStar subscriber, and the top 95% of the leading 1,000 brokerage firms use CoStar to inform their decisions.We also help create lasting experiences through our family of marketplaces. In addition to CoStar, CoStar Group brands and marketplaces include LoopNet, Apartments.com, BizBuySell, and Lands of America - collectively attracting more than 25 million monthly unique visitors. The Apartments.com Network is the nation's #1 most visited apartment listing network, with 45 million monthly visits, allowing renters to find their perfect homes. LAND.com connects landowners to their perfect properties, spots and open spaces. BizBuySell allows small business owners to bring their dreams to life. And LoopNet connects investors, sellers and brokers with clients who fall in love with their properties. Headquartered in Washington, DC, CoStar maintains offices throughout the U.S. and in Europe and Toronto, Canada with a staff of approximately 3,700 worldwide, including the industry's largest professional research organization.CoStar is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. CoStar is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access www.costargroup.com/careers as a result of your disability. You can request reasonable accommodations by calling 1-855-840-1715 or by sending an email to recruiting@costargroup.com .

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