Remote Position: Business Analyst with Education Domain & State Government Experience
Role: Business Analyst Location: Jackson, Mississippi (100% Remote) Duration: 5 years / 60 Months Webex Interview Description: This position will require a qualified technical Business Analyst with at least 7 years of experience in the following areas:
- Ability to create and document detailed business requirements, perform analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for the stakeholders
- Author and update internal and external documentation, and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation
- A strong understanding of the documentation development process, the software development process, and product lifecycles
- Determine operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output and formats
- Improve systems by studying and documenting current state and business rules
- Ability to partner with other team members and stakeholder across multiple business units to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with executive teams
- Ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience and business information to a technical audience
- Ability to successfully apply complex knowledge of fundamental concepts practices, and procedures of technical writing.
- Construct workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specification
- Translate stakeholder requests into formal requirements
- Deliver high-quality business requirement documentation for business manuals, new development, training manuals, user guide, and system guide
Required Skills/Experience Provide the minimum required skills and/or experience the contractor must possess to qualify for this position. These requirements will be transferred to the Score Sheet and candidates without these requirements reflected on their resume will NOT be presented to the manager for consideration.
- Must be able to effectively communicate (verbal and written) requirements with stakeholders as well as development team Must be able to collaborate with Project Manager, Architect, and developers to ensure business requirements are communicated, accepted, and meet expectations
- Must be able to translate and simplify requirements from stakeholders into written requirement documents for development team.
- Documents include Formal Business Requirements Document, Functional Design Document, Technical Design Document, Technical Use Cases, User stories, Business Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test cases.
- Must be able to create diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows of business processes
- Must be able to create and manage test cases for Quality Assurance.
- Must be familiar with software and database development concepts.
- Technical Business Analyst work on a software development team
- Must have experience developing technical documentation for enterprise software users, system administrators, and other technical audiences.
- Strong experience in requirements management and creating all documents listed above
- Strong experience in mapping business processes into technical documentation
Preferred/Not Required Provide any skills/experience that would be helpful for the candidate to possess but not required. Examples: Previous supervisory experience, WebLogic experience helpful, etc.
- MS Visio or similar product
- Experience in the Educational Domain
Skill Matrix: Beginner: 1 2 years Exp Intermediate: 3 5 years Exp Advanced: 5 7 years Exp SME: 7 9 years Exp Skill Skill Level Required / Preferred Consultants Experience in Years Must be able to effectively communicate (verbal and written) requirements with stakeholders as well as development team Must be able to collaborate with Project Manager, Architect, and developers to ensure business requirements are communicated, accepted, and meet expectations SME Required Formal Business Requirements Document, Functional Design Document, Technical Design Document, Technical Use Cases, User stories, Business Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test cases Advanced Required Creating diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows of business processes Advanced Required Create and manage test cases for Quality Assurance Advanced Required Familiarity with software and database development concepts Advanced Required Must Have Technical Business Analyst work on a software development team Advanced Required Developing technical documentation for enterprise software users, system administrators, and other technical audiences Advanced Required Mapping business processes into technical documentation Advanced Required MS Visio or Similar product Intermediate Preferred Educational Domain Intermediate Preferred