Mostly Remote|| Business Analyst @MN

Job Description

 Tasks

• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints
• Write requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely. Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams), prototypes, or scenarios, where appropriate
• Create acceptance criteria User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test case scenarios and participate/lead UAT end-user test sessions.
• Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements specifying an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by those must base their work on the requirements
• Identify the current- and future-state business processes; define quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other non-functional requirements
• Lead requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards
• Participate in requirements prioritization and facilitate the negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders
• Analyze and document business requirements and required data to deliver work products throughout the project life cycle
• Translate business requirements to System/Functional specifications, and pass them on to Application Developers
• Coordinate Business Validation to verify that a set of end-to-end business processes function as intended
• Work with the product manager or project sponsor to document the product’s vision and the project’s scope
• Participate in peer reviews and inspections of requirements documents and work products derived from those documents to ensure that the requirements were interpreted correctly
• Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project
• Manage changes to baselined requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools
• Identify ways to assist product management in product planning through requirements development and analysis
• Create end-product training materials and participate in end-user training activities
• Propose new product features and updates
• Provide knowledge transfer

Minimum Qualifications

• Five (5) years’ experience Business Analyst role
• A Master’s degree substitutes for three years of experience, or a Bachelor’s degree substitutes for two years, or an Associate’s degree substitutes for one year
• Two (2) engagements lasting more than six (6) months in Business Analyst role

• Desired Skills
• Experience with all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Lead BA experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Services
• Business Analyst Certification (IIBA certification or equivalent)