Business Analyst

BUSINESS ANALYST

Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a Business Analyst for a contract position in St. Paul/Hybrid, MN. Opportunity will be Six months with a strong chance for a long-term extension.

Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints.

• Write requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely. Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams), prototypes, or scenarios, where appropriate.

• Plan and facilitate project discovery sessions.

• Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements specifying an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by those that must base their work on the requirements.

• Identify the current- and future-client's business processes; define quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements.

• Perform requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.

• Translate business requirements to System/Functional specifications, and pass them on to Application Developers.

• Coordinate Business Validation to verify that a set of end-to-end business processes function as intended.

• Participate in peer reviews and inspections of user story maps, epics, user stories, requirements documents, and work products derived from those artifacts to ensure that the requirements were interpreted correctly.

• Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project.

• Work with product owners to align with priorities and build product backlog with refined stories for the development team.

• Create user story maps, write user stories with relevant acceptance criteria, and review/update with the development team at refinement sessions and scrum events as needed.

• Conduct refinement sessions at various levels for scrum teams in preparation for story pointing and sprint planning.

• Plan, manage, and track team work items.

Qualifications:

• Seven years of experience in an IT Business Analyst role

• Three years of experience working as an IT Business Analyst on Agile project/product teams

Preferred:

• Experience working with Law Enforcement or Criminal Justice Systems

• Business Analyst Certification (IIBA certification or equivalent)

• Scrum Master experience

• Certified Scrum Master

• Experience working with Product Owners on backlog management, story writing, and story refinement.

• Experience working with Agile work management tools such as JIRA.

• Analyzing, defining and documenting requirements for object oriented applications, relational databases, complex queries, interfaces, extraction processes, reports, and dashboards using multi-system data.

• Leading the design and implementation for multi-faceted, complex, application development projects involving multiple stakeholders and IT functions.

• Problem-solving skills in problem definition, information gathering and research, alternatives analysis, applying creative solutions to unique and/or immediate problems, and appropriate resolution implementation.

• Ability to communicate clearly, present complex information to users in a comprehensive style, and translate technical and system information for non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to collaborate, work effectively as part of a team and maintain working relationships with all levels of business customers and technology staff.

• Leadership, mentoring and coaching skills for IT professionals.

• Experience performing, and advanced knowledge of, Quality Assurance and Project Management activities.

If this job is a match for your background, we would be honored to receive your application!

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