Description
- Prepares business cases working with university partners.
- Collaborates with Project Manager to plan approach to requirements elicitation and methods for requirements management and communication.
- Ensures business opportunities and objectives are clearly articulated.
- Performs current state analysis and / or root cause analysis as required.
- Plans modeling techniques to be used in requirements analysis (scope, process, rule, data, interface models, etc.).
- Works with Project Manager to plan validation of requirements in managing project scope, user acceptance, installation and deployment;
helps determine metrics.
- Performs feasibility analysis as required for projects.
- Coordinates planning activities to meet objectives and timelines of overall program or project; works with Project Manager to forecast required time and resources.
- Implements strategies for gathering, reviewing and analyzing data requirements.
- Documents requirements, establishes scope and objectives and determines strategy for evaluating requirements implementation in systems to achieve business goals.
- Organizes requirements by release and other needed categories and sets up traceability matrix; articulates requirements relationships and dependencies.
- Translates and simplifies requirements for appropriate use; performs gap analysis; performs requirements analysis working with technical team.
- Prioritizes requirements working with university partners and creates conceptual prototypes and mock-ups.
- Uses business process modeling, traceability and quality management techniques per methodology.
- Performs requirements management and communication; apply best practices for effective communication and problemsolving.
- Collaborates with project management to obtain requirements approvals per project plan; facilitates go / no go decisions.
- Validates requirements throughout process per plan.
- Uses requirements to drive the design or review of test cases, process change requests.
- Provides consulting to all stakeholders regarding requirements management working with Project Management.
- Independently prioritizes the completion of tasks and resolution of issues to ensure compliance to project deliverables.
- Leads and coordinates activities associated with requirements management vehicles.
- Coordinates activities with other business analysts.
- Participates in recommending and implementing continuous improvement plans for business analysis.
- Develops requirements adoption metrics and other methods of evaluating the long-term performance of the solution.
- Reviews and monitors the effectiveness of business analysis via test results.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Skills
- Business acumen coupled with technical knowledge.
- Experience working on technology and application development projects including developing technical requirements.
- Strong listening skills.
- Strong research skills with attention to detail.
- Experience developing functional and non-functional requirements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including technical writing skills; consultative approach.
- Understanding of systems engineering concepts.
- Ability to conduct cost / benefit analysis and business case development.
- Recognized within the organization as demonstrating expertise in business analysis methods and modeling techniques.
- Experience working closely with team members during solution development and product launch.
- Experience developing use cases.
- Experience developing data and process flows.
- Must be able to work independently and proactively.
- Excellent organizational, analytical and independent problem solving skills.
- Demonstrated successful performance with, giving presentations to both small and large audiences and coordinating and completing multiple tasks within established and changing deadlines.
- Ability to contribute and collaborate effectively as a member of a highly-functioning and productive team.
- Demonstrated understanding of client relationship management, process mapping and improvement, project management and production support.
- Proven ability to provide business analysis for large scope project teams to meet customer expectations.
- Demonstrated understanding of business analyst tools and techniques; demonstrated proficiency using MS Office and Visio tools.
30+ days ago