Business Analyst

Duties/ Responsibilities:Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of stakeholders.Collaborates with project business owners and technology resources to develop and document project requirements to include use of Business Analysis techniques to gather requirements.Works with stakeholders and project team members to prioritize collected requirements.Research, reviews, and analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processesAssists in conducting research on product/solution functionality to meet agreed-upon requirements.Participates in the QA of developed/configured solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized to meet key stakeholder requirements.Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to organizational standards.Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications and user stories.Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team as well as key external stakeholders.Conducts requirements validation and review to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutionsare understood.Participate in team meetings and understand/gather/improve/refine requirements.Write User Stories in collaboration with the Senior BAs/UI/UX designers to align with the user acceptance criteria.Work with Technical teams on the refinement of the User StoriesAssist QA testers to understand the user stories and build test cases.Share techniques, best practices, and tools.*Education:A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline is required.*General Experience:Three to five years of related work experience as a Business Analyst.Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and validation.Demonstrated business analyst skills and business analysis software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing project deliverables.Ability to develop and maintain relationships with business stakeholders.Working knowledge of Windows Office systems, including MS Project.Experience writing and supporting user story development.Able to exercise independent judgment and act on it.Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail.Highly self-motivated and directed.Strong customer service orientation.Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.*Specialized Experience:Health Industry experienceCompetency in requirements gathering, process modeling, and data analysis.Experience with business analysis tools and software (e.g., Visio, JIRA, Confluence)Proficiency with project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum)recblid u3datozsmd0o0dd5gkkr2sfew3tky0