The Business Analyst is responsible for defining business needs, translating those needs into system requirements and clearly defining the scope of the solution. The incumbent will create standards, policies, processes and procedures. The incumbent will also conduct business process analysis/design, needs assessments and cost benefit analysis related to the impact of the business.
Primary Responsibilities
- Works closely with the users and product owner to understand needs and expectations.
- Writes detailed business requirements and functional specifications for Agile development teams. Manages the approval process for the requirements/stories.
- Become subject matter expert in the assigned company application portfolio. Understand the underlying business logic and processes to help design solutions to new requirements and solving business problems.
- Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported and resolved in a timely manner. Works with customers and application developers to identify required changes. Assists in delivery tracking and adherence to committed timelines.
- Evaluates and participates in solution alternatives with application development teams while ensuring business solutions meet corporate standards.
- Negotiates technical and non-technical solutions that satisfy the business users and conform to the technical architecture.
- Evaluate and make recommendations to improve organizational effectiveness and that may reduce cost.
- Work with the Quality Assurance team to derive test strategy, in creating and reviewing test cases and support functional testing.
- Coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT) including assisting with test strategy, reviewing user acceptance test cases and environment/data setup.
- Establish and maintain a strong partnership with business partners, company management, technical staff and end users. Lead regular communication and user group meeting with business partners.
- Gathers, consolidates and refines data to publish executive, operational, and management level reporting and analysis.
- Any combination of relevant education and experience and/or related professional designations/certifications in this field is highly desirable.
Education
- Minimum Required: BS/BA degree or equivalent business and technical experience
Experience
- 3-5 years of experience in Business Analysis and Project Management Preferred
Essential Skills
• Agile/Scrum requirements and project management using a tool such as JIRA.
• Intermediate to advanced skills in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to create flowcharts, sequence diagrams and UI mockups.