Business Analyst with Guidewire Job at Resource Informatics Group Inc in Houston

Title: Business Analyst (Guidewire)

Location:-Remote

Visa:-USC/GC

Duration: 6 months

Interview:- 2 rounds video interview

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

⦁ Collaborates with business communities to collect information, perform analysis, and define business requirements via user stories and business acceptance criteria.  Responsible for understanding the business and making recommendations for improvement.

⦁ Collaborates with agile team to translate the business vision into language that can be consumed by development resources.  Conversely, ensures the business understands the solution technology environment and can articulate it in their own words

⦁ Acts as a primary contact for questions on current/future/past work for business and IT resources.

⦁ Contribute to best practices.  Help evolve the team’s tools & techniques in the areas of enterprise analysis, process modeling, requirements gathering and documentation.    

⦁ Assists in the planning, execution, and analysis of user acceptance testing

⦁ Provides assistance in the elicitation of business vision and the prioritization of agile feature storyboards and product backlogs

Job Specifications

Knowledge:

⦁ Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, or MIS/Information Technology is desirable.

⦁ Hands-on experience as a business analyst capturing business requirements, defining business acceptance criteria, and interfacing with IT development teams.

⦁ Knowledge of mortgage insurance life cycle is a plus.

⦁ Knowledge and experience with agile or waterfall development is a plus.

⦁ Knowledge of the Guidewire Insurance Suite, specifically Policy Center and/or Billing Center is a plus.

Skills and Abilities:

⦁ Ability to elicit and document the 'what' and 'why' of a business request, separately from the 'how'

⦁ Ability to elicit and document current and future state business and technical process flows

⦁ Ability to analyze data (ideally via SQL) and review/explain data models

⦁ Ability to provide best practice feedback on ui functionality/design

⦁ Skilled at facilitation and engaging stakeholders in face-to-face conversations, regardless of domain

⦁ Thinks across organizational boundaries and empathizes with customers, both internal and external

⦁ Able to anticipate impacts, both positive and negative,  to other areas of the organization

⦁ Ability to break a problem down into smaller chunks that can be delivered separately (i.e features and stories)

⦁ Comfotable with continuous discovery and analyzing work in increments, rather than all at once up front

⦁ Ability to promote process improvement and be an advocate for change

⦁ Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

⦁ Comfortable operating in an environment with a considerable amount of ambiguity

⦁ Effectively manages priorities across multiple concurrent workstreams