IT Business Analyst I

Working with the business partner, the IT Business Analyst is responsible for using appropriate methods to plan, organize, and conduct all aspects of Business Needs Assessment, most commonly referred to as Business Requirements for the development of manual or automated systems and procedures that are cost effective, creative, and that meet user’s needs. The Business Analyst plays a durable role throughout the Development Lifecycle that includes gathering and documenting business requirements, creating use case scenarios, modeling business process, and participating in the overall planning that will ensure the system delivered meets the needs of the business.

Detailed Description

Assists the business in building upon the project definition, description and vision document, which may include scope, risk, and identification of stakeholders; plans, coordinates, and creates written documentation that clearly describes the needs of the business, which may include Business Requirements, Business Use Cases, Process Models, Business Needs Analysis, or Conceptual Design Documents; may plan, coordinate, and create Test Strategy and Test Plans, and other supporting documentation as needed.

In the Analysis and Design phase of the project lifecycle, the business analyst is directly responsible for gathering requirements, researching and analyzing existing, and proposed solutions in the development, modification, or enhancement of programs or systems. The business analyst will engage in

dependency analysis, functional design, work flow analysis, use case analysis, data and process modeling, and have a clear understanding of the current and future business rules.

Prepares and plans all aspects of the Requirements discipline, including controlling or participating in estimating, feasibility analysis, meeting facilitation, management and executive reporting, change request management, issue tracking, process improvements, and project planning.

Prepares or participates in the Testing discipline, including Test Planning, incident research and analysis, Test strategy, QA and CAT functions, as needed.

Provides hotline support as needed throughout the project lifecycle, participating directly in issue resolution, break and hot fix support, and triage in the identification and resolution of all project incidents, documentation maintenance and traceability as related to the Requirements discipline.

Job Requirements

4-6 years of business analysis experience in a technical environment, supporting multiple small, moderate or large teams of business and IT staff.

Four-year college degree required. With specific approval, equivalent combination of post-high school education and work experience may be acceptable.

Ability to interact with all levels of personnel and communicate clearly in a professional manner, requiring strong organizational, administrative and interpersonal skills, both oral and written.

Ability to be an advocate with the business in analyzing and documenting clear. documentation appropriate for the Requirements discipline.

Demonstrated knowledge and experience with both process and data-driven structured analysis techniques.

Strong knowledge of project development life cycle, including the ability to coordinate and prioritize multiple projects. Experience with estimating, scheduling, and tracking projects from beginning to completion strongly desired. Experience with one or more project development methodologies is a plus.

Ability to develop work plans, work effectively as a member of a team, report on status of projects, and represent the team in meetings and/or with the client.

Sound knowledge and understanding of end-user and back-end system development using one or more programming constructs

Able to coordinate issues identification and resolution between clients and the development team.

Possess a strong knowledge of PC software applications such as Word, Visio, Excel

Completes other tasks as may be assigned by department or division management

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