Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Support pre-project business problem elicitation, feasibility and business case definition.
• Work with the business to determine the issue that need to be solved, or the opportunity to do things differently.
• Develop the business case, in particular ensuring benefits align to strategic business objectives.
• Work with the business to capture and document requirements (functional and non-functional), using techniques such as workshop facilitation, document analysis, sites visits, use cases, scenario modeling, and task / workflow analysis.
• Ensure business requirements are concise and complete.
• An Agile Business Analyst knows analysis occurs throughout the project with an initial high-level picture of the scope, followed by more detail on specific features when they are delivered.
• Combine all business requirements into a clear, managed, User Stories in a prioritized backlog.
• Refines business requirements to a sufficient level of detail to allow Architects and Software Engineers to design and implement appropriate solutions.
• Provide refined requirements into project iterations in time to allow delivery to commence.
• Manage the scope and traceability of requirements throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that they are understood by the project team and met by the delivered solution.
• Perform process modeling.
• Discover and document the as-is process by applying process modeling techniques.
• Design and models the to-be process, performing gap analysis and identifying areas for improvement.
• Review solution designs, ensuring business requirements are verified and delivered.
• Ensure requirements traceability through testing.
• Work with the QA team to provide business input into test strategy, test plans, test conditions and UAT plans.
• Coordinate UAT with the business.
• Review and approve test scripts to ensure requirements are tested and met by the delivered solution.
• Provide business change management support.
• Ensure the benefits, impact and release of all changes are tracked and managed and communicated to relevant partners.
• Ensure end-users and IT support teams are trained to use, support and maintain the application/solution.
• Provide project management support.
• Provide subject matter expertise on the business unit and associated processes to all relevant team members.

 Qualifications:

• At least 3 years of experience, in analysis, documentation, and business process definition.
• Demonstrated excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience translating business needs into application requirements.
• Experience with the analyzing, diagramming and writing the necessary business documentation including: User Stories, Functional Design Documents, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Training Support, and Production Support materials.
• Experience with the analysis of the individual parts an overall project to form a holistic view of the end state with emphasis on creating and recording new processes, tasks and documentation.

Key Skills:

• Analytical Problem Solving capabilities.
• Interpersonal and consultative skills.
• Oral and written communication proficiency.
• Creative Outlook.
• Basic software knowledge and skills.