Top 3 skillsets that are needed for this position:
Facilitation, extension knowledge of business requirements documents: use cases, functional requirements, context diagrams
Job Description:
Job Summary:
The Business Analyst is responsible for the following:
- Initiates/conducts requirements scoping to establish a preliminary understanding and scope of the project
- Prepares a requirements plan to identify the resources required to support the requirements phase of the SDLC
- Acquires project sponsor/key stakeholder approval of the scope and requirements plan deliverables
- Conducts requirements discovery sessions to elicit business requirements from subject matter experts (SMEs)
- Develops and analyzes use cases for completeness and pulls statements of requirements from them
- Prepares business requirements document for review
- Conducts peer reviews to enhance the quality and consistency of requirements
- Conducts SME reviews to verify with the project stakeholders and SMEs that the requirements are accurate and reflect their business need within the established scope of the project.
- Conducts development reviews to solicit input from SDLC downstream consumers on the defined requirements with regard to difficulty/feasibility and associated development effort.
- Performs requirements prioritization of groups of requirements and acquire high-level estimates for developing the parts of the solution for each requirements group.
- Acquires formal approval from the project sponsor of the requirements
- Creates a traceability matrix to be used throughout the SDLC to track requirements through design, development, and testing
- Coordinates User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Core Competencies:
1. Analytical and Systems Thinking
- Identifies sources of requirements, possible interfaces, and affected lines of business based on high-level process descriptions or scenarios in order to understand the stakeholder need.
- When gathering and validating requirements, recognizes inconsistencies and gaps in a business process description and works with the stakeholder to clarify and simply describe complex processes.
2. Change Leadership
- Understands the need for change; demonstrates a tolerance for ambiguity; and a positive attitude toward the change.
- Energizes and alerts a group of team members or stakeholders to the need for specific changes in the way things are done when gathering requirements.
3. Facilitation/Requirements Elicitation
· Uses questioning and modeling tools and techniques to discover and resolve ambiguities and discrepancies in requirements.
· Maintains the group focus, leads the discussion toward stated goals and manages the group dynamics in facilitation requirements gathering sessions.
4. Requirements Planning and Management
- Creates a plan for the requirements management effort according to the recommended practices of CareSource.
- Resolves schedule, planning, resource and scope issues; and estimates the impact of change requests on timelines, budgets, resources and project scope.
5. Customer Relationship Management
· Works with LOB to define business objectives, process, and requirements.
· Builds, sustains, and leverages relationships with persons within his/her area of immediate responsibility when gathering, validating and approving requirements.
· Helps stakeholders understand and agree to requirements.
6. Consensus and Agreement Building
· Remains impartial in requirements discussions. Confirms understanding by all parties involved when validating requirements. Impartially leads a session to prioritize requirements.
7. Professional Knowledge
· Demonstrates an understanding of: the stakeholder's business culture and priorities; the need for different modeling techniques used when gathering requirements; the corporate standards for documentation; methods for prioritizing requirements; and tools for tracking requirements.
8. Verbal and Written Communication
· Speaks effectively in requirements discovery sessions and meetings. Takes measures to ensure understanding has occurred. Asks questions to clarify or discern implied or poorly expressed meanings.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education:
· BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or related field or equivalent experience
Experience:
· 5 - 10 years of experience managing requirements.
· Overall knowledge and understanding of IT environment
Knowledge & Skills
· Excellent oral and written communication skills
· Ability to manage time effectively
· Effective organization and prioritization skills
· Effective facilitation and interpersonal skills
· Effective management and leadership skills
Regards
Ram
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