Business Analyst

• Consults with internal customers and external vendors to capture agreed-upon business objectives and processes.
• Performs research and fact-finding to determine business requirements for development of end-user programs, operational procedures and support.
• Communicates these processes and their implications to technical and non-technical contributors to ensure that applications accurately meet business users' goals.
• Business Analysts create system requirements, collaborating with the design teams to determine that application, database, & other system impacts based on the requirements.
• The Business Analyst works closely with other members of the technical teams to ensure all requirements are addressed in the solution design.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate creation of Business Requirements following a traditional approach, or using the Business Process and Analysis (BPA) methodology as determined by the project sponsor
• Manage Scoring (approving) and Claiming processes with Business and Technology stakeholders to review and refine business requirements and use cases to ensure they are clear, concise and traceable; and to ensure business requirements will be satisfied by the appropriate teams / applications.
• Identify project stakeholders, risks and benefits of alternate designs; document assumptions; assess project impact of system changes to users, internal and external customers
• Develop System Requirements (SRQs), including process flows and use cases
• Conduct SRQ reviews with project stakeholders and document consumers to ensure completeness and adherence to business requirements
• Consult with internal customers, cross-functional team members and external vendors to capture agreed-upon business objectives and processes to define system requirements
• Update and map SRQs to Business Requirements in the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Review Architecture, Engineering and Application Development designs and QA / UAT test plans to ensure requirements are met and the RTM is updated as required
• Provide BA support for software testing and debugging plans to ensure requirements are met
• Provide status reporting for project progress, issues, dependencies and risks