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Job Description
Business Analyst Senior will work as a liaison among stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate, and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies, and information systems. The business analyst’s primary responsibility is to understand business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
Requirements Gathering Prepare for and conduct requirements elicitation sessions using a variety of techniques including but not limited to brainstorming, interviews, surveys, requirements workshops, observation, task and workflow analysis, prototyping, storyboarding, document analysis, interface analysis, and focus group sessions.
Document elicitation results and validate with project team to ensure stated requirements align with the projects teams understanding of the requirements.
Requirements Analysis Work with project team to prioritize requirements and agree on assumptions and constraints.
Organize, model, and specify requirements with the appropriate level of detail given complexity, risk, and audience.
Work with project team to verify and validate requirements through review of requirements.
Requirements Management & Communication Write requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely.
Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional and nonfunctional requirements, specified in an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by internal project team members who base their work on the requirements.
Represent requirements using alternative views (ex. models/diagrams) where appropriate.
Communicate requirements to ensure all project team members have a shared understanding of the solution and secure requirement confirmation/approval from project team members.
Manage issues and changes to baselined requirements by identifying business impact of the changes and through effective application of change control processes and tools.
Manage traceability of requirements to ensure alignment to project goals and objectives as well as alignment to development and testing plans.
Manage requirements documentation for reuse.
Solution Assessment & Validation Works with project team to ensures proposed solutions align with requirements and maximizes value.
Defines requirements for solutions needed to transition from an existing solution to a new one.
Define acceptance criteria, perform gap analysis on proposed solutions, and make recommendations.
Work with project team to evaluate impact of defects and to develop plans for resolution or other mitigation.
EDUCATION
Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Proficient in Microsoft Office products such as Outlook, Word, Excel, and Visio
Experience with Microsoft Azure DevOps
Knowledge of defect tracking processes and tools
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIC TO JOB
Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment and consult effectively with employees at all levels.
General knowledge of business and IT systems.
Strong attention to detail, motivation, and ability to take initiative.
Interviewing skills; talk with various project team members about needs and ask the right questions to surface essential requirements information.
Listening, observation, and oral communication skills; understand what people say and detect…