Business Analyst 4

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with project team members and business stakeholders to deeply understand business processes, identify pain points, and develop expertise in the customer's business applications.
• Conduct thorough root cause analysis to uncover system gaps and deficiencies, proposing effective business, technical, or blended solutions.
• Develop process flows, context diagrams, and data flow diagrams to document current processes and propose modifications.
• Discover and meticulously document requirements and user stories with a focus on improving both business and technical processes.
• Decompose requirements into Epics and Features, creating clear and actionable user stories that can be easily understood and implemented by technical teams.
• Use progressive elaboration to map stories to technical design specifications.
• Support the Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog, grouping related user stories into Themes, and documenting dependencies.
• Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups to visualize proposed solutions and enhance stakeholder understanding.
• Propose cost-effective solutions, rigorously testing their feasibility for both business and technical compatibility.
• Define test objectives, create test plans and cases, execute tests (including regression testing), and facilitate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with the business.
• Keep Project Managers and Scrum Masters informed of the progress of testing activities.

Qualifications

• Advanced understanding of enterprise data management concepts and tools.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts.
• 5+ years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst with a strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology.
• Proven experience in organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs.
• Proficiency in translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories.
• Expertise in defining acceptance criteria and managing the acceptance process with development teams.
• Experience with large, multi-module enterprise systems.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server).
• Experience with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with a proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers.
• Must be proficient in business process management concepts on BPM tools.
• Strong experience in creating business process models.
• Preferred certifications: Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), PMI - Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA), PMI - Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP).
• Experience using Azure DevOps for agile software development and work item tracking.