Business Analyst

 

Business Analyst

 

What you will be doing:

The Portfolio Business Analyst within a specific product segment is the translational expert; has some degree of subject matter expertise and is the liaison between product management and other support groups such as development, user experience and program management (PMO).  They are responsible for understanding the business requirements defined by product management and, in conjunction with user experience personnel, translating those requirements into clear, unambiguous, and concise documents that are used as the basis for software development design and quality assurance testing.  Tasks required to fulfill job responsibilities include the ability to elicit, analyze, validate, specify, verify, prioritize, author, and manage detailed requirement documents.  These documents support the required workflow such as functional documents, stories, and sprint ready directions. 

This position involves tight collaboration with the associated Technical Product Managers is essential to ensuring complete execution and success of the product line. This position is an integral member of the product team consisting of the BA, the User Experience (UX) lead, Product Development lead and assigned PMO contact and other necessary functional leads as appropriate.

• Agile SCRUM software lifecycle

• Product Management

• Business Analysis

Responsibility #1

Business Requirements Analysis

• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.

• Translates high level Business requirements to actionable stories.

• Incorporates and creates detailed requirements, use cases, test cases and meaningful stories to meet business requirements and which supports the business vision.

• Assists Sr BA in cross functional business development, requirement reuse across all product and business spectrum.

• Works to gain commitment from stakeholders and team members.

• Documenting and communicating the results and efforts to the team.

• With PMO, helps manage requirement traceability information and track requirement status throughout the process.

• Identify and communicate potential process improvements to the TPM.

• Is proactively working towards becoming a subject matter expert.

Responsibility #2

Product Development, QA & Testing

• Participate in effort to acquire estimates from iteration team

• Works closely with QA team to ensure QA requirements and needs are met to allow detailed and thorough product testing can be accomplished.

• Works with Sr. PBA or TPD to manage product backlog

• Helps manage development issues and ensuring the escalation of necessary issues to the TPD.

• Maintain a good understanding of product vision to assure current stories are formulated in a manner to lay the most effective groundwork for future functionality

• Assists with coordinating successful completion of UAT. 

• Providing leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.

Responsibility #3

Data Analysis

• Assess and validate integration/solutions and data integrity/quality

• Create data mapping and data flow diagrams

• Assess the impact of data and software changes on the current and future business

Responsibility

Knowledge Transfer

• Executes proper documentation and effective knowledge transfer exists for all parties involved including development, marketing, product support, implementation, and education

• Facilitates and conducts meetings and interactions of necessary support groups.

• Acts as the point of collaboration to assure all members of the product team sta

​Required Qualifications

Work Experience:

Years of Applicable Experience - 4 or more years

Education:

High School Diploma or GED (Required)

 

Preferred Qualifications

Skills:

• Agile SCRUM software lifecycle Product Management

• Requirement Analysis

• CRM System Product Management

Experience:

• T-SQL and data modeling concepts

• Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CRM)

• Power BI, Microsoft Power Platform

• Tableau

• Technical Product Management

• User Provisioning

Education:

Bachelor’s degree

 

Additional Job Requirements:

• Remain in a stationary position for prol