Business Analyst

Description

The Business Analyst is responsible for working with the project team and stakeholders to examine existing and future-state business processes, data, and systems. This information is used to guide the gathering of business requirements as they relate to the desired system functionality.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for documenting business requirements that are clear, unambiguous, testable, and satisfy the business need in      accordance with standard templates and adherence to DTMB and MDOS policies, standards, and guidelines.  
• Responsible for facilitating requirement gathering meetings to identify impacted business processes and document the project      business requirements.  Attendees include relevant project team members and stakeholders as identified in the Communication Plan.
• Responsible for adhering to the project schedule by developing and maintaining the project backlog during Agile projects and      working with the product owner to set priority throughout the duration of project.
• Responsible for understanding project scope and actively monitoring requirements process to maintain adherence to the      objectives set for the project.
• Responsible for understanding high-level information governance objectives and ensuring appropriate Stakeholder inclusion      and/or awareness regarding data requirements.
• Responsible for appropriate resolution of critical IT issues as it pertains to the BA role.
• Responsible for providing information and analysis for Build vs. Buy project decisions.
• Responsible for understanding project specific benefits and related impact of changes to project scope or business requirements.
• Ensures SEM (system engineering methodology) deliverables for the project that are a responsibility of the BA are completed, reviewed, and approved in alignment with area processes.
• Works directly with project team including user interface/user experience (UI/UX) solution architects, database      administrators, developers, QA testers, and others to ensure understanding of the requirements, functionality, size, and scalability of the IT solution.

Requirements

Business Analyst

Quality Assurance Knowledge

Azure DevOps Knowledge (comfortable with   creating epics/features/user stories for projects)

Understanding of BA, QA, DEV   roles/responsibilities

Experienced with as-is/to-be processes and   content creation

Experience with creating product roadmap

Familiarity with Project Management   Methodologies/Agile

Adept with using BA tools (e.g., FIGMA,   Visio)