Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst

The Expert Software Analyst will serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams, evaluating business operations to identify and document the as-is and to-be processes. This role involves analyzing data, defining project requirements, and creating specifications for development teams. Key tasks include eliciting, analyzing, communicating, validating, and verifying the requirements for the to-be system.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the project manager, technical team members, and other project stakeholders to provide guidance throughout the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Work closely with the project team to identify and scope the stated business problem, provide guidance, and recommend/execute the best approach to the problem.
• Serve as a liaison to stakeholders, software users, and Subject Matter Experts to elicit, analyze, communicate, validate, and verify the requirements for complex changes to current business processes, policies, and information systems, as well as for the development of new business processes, policies, and information systems.
• Convey the demands of software users to the developers and ensure understanding of requirements through clearly articulated artifacts.
• Create as-is and to-be business process flows to ensure that the implemented business process and supporting software meets agency needs.
• Conduct requirements workshops and JAD sessions with agency subject matter experts as one of the many techniques to be used to elicit requirements.
• Create business requirements documents (BRD), context diagrams, system as-is and to be states, system specifications, use cases, workflow diagrams, report and screen mockups, swim lane diagrams, and prototypes.
• Ensure that artifacts required by ITS governance process and Secure Systems Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) are created and support the project scope.
• Manage requirements through the life of the contract using a requirements management plan and traceability to ensure coverage between the source of each requirement and the test case(s) it will be tested by.

Requirements

<>Required Skills

• 84 months experience eliciting then analyzing the stakeholder's business needs using a variety of analysis techniques and converting those into verified and validated functional and non-functional requirements for development including but not limited to eliciting functional requirements, non-functional requirements, report requirements, and business rules.
• 84 months experience in creating and maintaining software development artifacts for communication of requirements, including end user documentation, specifically business cases, business requirements documents (BRDs), use cases, report mockups, wire frames, and flow diagrams. In addition, context diagrams, textual use cases, swim lane diagrams, report specifications, wireframes, user interface specifications, and non-functional requirements specification.
• 84 months experience facilitating requirement workshops, such as, JAD sessions and structured walkthroughs. Ensures that requirements are understood, conveyed, and met.
• 72 months experience managing requirements throughout the requirements management lifecycle, including creation and execution of a requirements management plan, requirements traceability matrix, establishing requirements baselines, and managing requirements change control.

<>Preferred Skills

• Experience with Agile methodologies and Scrum frameworks.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Familiarity with IT governance processes and Secure Systems Development Lifecycle (SSDLC).