Senior Business Analyst

Job title: Business Analyst

Location: Baltimore, Maryland 21201, Hybrid

Job Description

The Business Analyst (BA) is responsible for the successful delivery of projects by developing trust and respect through collaboration with business stakeholders, project team members, and peers. The BA will bring best practices and utilize a business analysis process that will provide structure and principles that will facilitate the delivery of a solution that meets the business objectives.

Education

• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a major in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline is required.
  
  

General Experience

• Three to five years of related work experience as a Business Analyst.
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modelling, verification, and validation.
• Demonstrated business analyst skills and business analysis software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing project deliverables.
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships with business stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of Windows Office systems, including MS Project.
• Experience writing and supporting user story development.
• Able to exercise independent judgment and act on it.
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail.
• Highly self-motivated and directed.
• Strong customer service orientation.
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
• Support the Senior Business Analyst in gathering and documenting requirements, conducting research, and analysing data. Assist in the development of business cases and project plans.
  
  

Specialized Experience

• Health Industry experience
• Competency in requirements gathering, process modeling, and data analysis.
• Experience with business analysis tools and software (e.g., Visio, JIRA, Confluence)
• Proficiency with project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum)
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to work collaboratively, and experience with data analysis tools.
  
  

Duties/Responsibilities

• Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of stakeholders.
• Collaborates with project business owners and technology resources to develop and document projectrequirements to include use of Business Analysis techniques to gather requirements.
• Works with stakeholders and project team members to prioritize collected requirements.
• Research, reviews, and analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gatheringprocesses and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes
• Assists in conducting research on product/solution functionality to meet agreed-upon requirements.
• Participates in the QA of developed/configured solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabledand optimized to meet key stakeholder requirements.
• Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, andconformity to organizational standards.
• Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications anduser stories.
• Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that iscomprehensible to developers/project team.
• Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or theproject team as well as key external stakeholders.
• Conducts requirements validation and review to ensure that requirement specifications are correctlyinterpreted.
• Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements - verbally or throughwritten documentation - to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions.
• Participate in team meetings and understand/gather/improve/refine requirements.
• Write User Stories in collaboration with the Senior BAs/UI/UX designers to align with the user acceptancecriteria.
• Work with Technical teams on the refinement of the User Stories
• Assist QA testers to understand the user stories and build test cases.
• Share techniques, best practices, and tools.