Business Systems Analyst

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes "Ideal Candidate Profile" and responsibilities etc. We need to use

for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include sections only when posting has real specific content. No Pay/Schedule/Benefits unless stated. The posting does not mention pay, schedule, benefits. So we should not include those sections. We need to include sections: About the role (maybe from Ideal Candidate Profile). Responsibilities (list of duties). Requirements (maybe required skills). Qualifications? Could combine required skills as qualifications. Skills (technical skills & tools). We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. We need to preserve all substantive information, no fluff. Remove boilerplate like "Required Required Skills" duplication? There's duplication: "Required Required Skills". We'll clean. We need to use

• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

  for prose. We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. Let's extract content: Ideal Candidate Profile: Seeking a Business Systems Analyst to work as a key member of the Design Team for IT projects. This analyst will support teams working in Agile (Kanban and Sprint) as well as traditional Waterfall methodologies for Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). This position is expected to handle multiple projects, and remain flexible and productive, despite changing priorities and processes. Responsibilities (list): - Work with the Project team members and business stakeholders to understand business processes and pain points. - Develop expertise in the customers' business applications - Conduct Root Cause Analysis to identify system gaps and deficiencies that require a business, technical or blended approach for resolution - Diagram current processes and proposed modifications using process flows, context diagrams and data flow diagrams - Client and document requirements and user stories with a focus on improving both business and technical processing. (Probably "Capture and document") - Translate business needs into detailed user stories, use cases, process flows, and other artifacts. - Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff - Strong Sense of ownership and accountability - Utilize progressive elaboration; map stories to technical design specifications to be used by internal staff to develop the system modifications - Identify and group related user stories into Themes, document the dependencies and associated business processes - Ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines. - Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog - Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups - Create wireframes and prototypes. - Propose alternative solutions that balance cost and benefit and adequately test a solution's feasibility for business and technical compatibility. - Collaborate with staff, vendors, consultants, and contractors as they are engaged on tasks to formulate, detail and test potential and implemented solutions. - Perform Quality Analyst functions such as defining test objectives, test plans and test cases, and executing test cases (including regression testing) - Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress - Assist in validating system changes align with business requirements. - Schedule, facilitate, and document meetings with cross-functional teams. - Prepare agendas, capture key decisions and action items, and distribute meeting notes. - Serve as the liaison between business users, project managers, developers, and other stakeholders. - Provide regular updates on progress, risks, and issues. Required Skills: - The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts. - 5+ years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology - Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs - Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories - Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development - Experience with large, multi-module systems - Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server) - Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM) - The candidate must have exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers - Experience in managing projects or workstreams independently. Preferred Skills: - Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking. - Ability to create low and high-fidelity wireframes to visually represent user flows and functionality - Experience building interactive dashboards and reports using Power BI Desktop. - Strong experience in writing complex Sql queries for data extraction, transformation and reporting. - Certified Scrum Master or Equivalent, experience running sprints & ceremonies. - Ability to manage small-scale projects or workstreams independently. - Experience using tools such as MS Project ,JIRA, Confluence or equivalent. Skills Technical Tools: - Microsoft Office Suite( Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint) - MS Visio - Microsoft Project - Power BI / Tableau - Oracle SQL/ SQL Server - Figma or Balsamiq We need to output sections: About the role (maybe from Ideal Candidate Profile). Responsibilities (list). Requirements (maybe required skills). Qualifications? Could be same as required? But we can have Requirements and Qualifications separate if content distinct. The posting has "Required Required Skills" and "Preferred Skills". Could treat Required as Requirements, Preferred as Qualifications? Or Skills section for technical tools. Let's decide: - About the role: Ideal Candidate Profile paragraph. - Responsibilities: list of duties. - Requirements: Required Skills (minimum experience, etc.) - Qualifications: Preferred Skills? Or maybe Qualifications includes both required and preferred? But we need to avoid duplication. Could have Requirements (required) and Qualifications (preferred). Or Skills (technical tools). Let's follow typical: Requirements = required skills, Qualifications = preferred skills, Skills = technical tools. We must not create sections with filler. All have content. We'll output:

  About the role

  Seeking a Business Systems Analyst to work as a key member of the Design Team for IT projects. This analyst will support teams working in Agile (Kanban and Sprint) as well as traditional Waterfall methodologies for Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). This position is expected to handle multiple projects, and remain flexible and productive, despite changing priorities and processes.

  Responsibilities

  • Work with the Project team members and business stakeholders to understand business processes and pain points.
  • Develop expertise in the customers' business applications
  • Conduct Root Cause Analysis to identify system gaps and deficiencies that require a business, technical or blended approach for resolution
  • Diagram current processes and proposed modifications using process flows, context diagrams and data flow diagrams
  • Capture and document requirements and user stories with a focus on improving both business and technical processing.
  • Translate business needs into detailed user stories, use cases, process flows, and other artifacts.
  • Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff
  • Strong sense of ownership and accountability
  • Utilize progressive elaboration; map stories to technical design specifications to be used by internal staff to develop the system modifications
  • Identify and group related user stories into Themes, document the dependencies and associated business processes
  • Ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
  • Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog
  • Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups
  • Create wireframes and prototypes.
  • Propose alternative solutions that balance cost and benefit and adequately test a solution's feasibility for business and technical compatibility.
  • Collaborate with staff, vendors, consultants, and contractors as they are engaged on tasks to formulate, detail and test potential and implemented solutions.
  • Perform Quality Analyst functions such as defining test objectives, test plans and test cases, and executing test cases (including regression testing)
  • Coordinate and facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress
  • Assist in validating system changes align with business requirements.
  • Schedule, facilitate, and document meetings with cross-functional teams.
  • Prepare agendas, capture key decisions and action items, and distribute meeting notes.
  • Serve as the liaison between business users, project managers, developers, and other stakeholders.
  • Provide regular updates on progress, risks, and issues.

  Requirements

  • Minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts.
  • 5+ years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology
  • Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs
  • Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories
  • Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development
  • Experience with large, multi-module systems
  • Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)
  • Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM)
  • Exceptional written and oral communications skills; proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers
  • Experience managing projects or workstreams independently.

  Qualifications

  • Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking.
  • Ability to create low and high-fidelity wireframes to visually represent user flows and functionality
  • Experience building interactive dashboards and reports using Power BI Desktop.
  • Strong experience in writing complex SQL queries for data extraction, transformation and reporting.
  • Certified Scrum Master or Equivalent, experience running sprints & ceremonies.
  • Ability to manage small-scale projects or workstreams independently.
  • Experience using tools such as MS Project, JIRA, Confluence or equivalent.

  Skills

  • Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint)
  • MS Visio
  • Microsoft Project
  • Power BI / Tableau
  • Oracle SQL / SQL Server
  • Figma or Balsamiq
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