What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Business Analyst position at Software Methods, Incorporated?
Software Methods is seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a 24 month contract opportunity at our client in the King of Prussia, PA area. This is a remote or hybrid opportunity.
The position is primarily focused on understanding current design and future requirements for existing websites that have integrations with multiple applications and are being used by multiple internal departments, our members and the public. This individual will interact with the business users to gather and document requirements, as well as document application dependencies. This individual will drive strategic initiatives, analyze business requirements, and ensure alignment between business needs and technical solutions.
Specific responsibilities will include but, not be limited to, requirements elicitation, documenting requirements and technical designs based upon the requirements in an Agile environment, and working with the team and stakeholders to ensure that website and software updates are made with minimal impact to all current users.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and document requirements in collaboration business clients
- Maintain traceability of requirements throughout the SDLC
- Serve as a business liaison between business SMEs and product teams
- Analyze, review, and document current structure anduse cases of the application including integrations and dependencies
- Assist project manager in better understanding information gathered about user experience
- Assist business clients in developing and prioritizing requirements for future use cases
- Use strong communication skills when working with a team, a subject matter expert (SME) and providing in time updates to project manager.
- Facilitate workshops, presentations, requirements reviews, and regular updates to keep stakeholders informed.
- Validate solutions through supporting the QA support in testing to ensure quality deliverables.
- Support emergency system outage and recovery as requested.
Required:
- Someone who is energetic and passionate about their work, extremely positive and solution driven
- Proactive to ask questions early and often to gain understanding
- Detail oriented
- Excellent requirements gathering skills and experience
- Active listening to customers and understands their current processes and needs
- Ability to work independently, with minimum supervision
- Someone who has worked on large teams, on projects that have different business owners
- Someone who has worked on cross-functional teams, on projects in a matrixed environment
- Most recent roles should show increasing responsibility as BA in agile environment
- Skilled at documentation best practices such as using revision history/version control
- Skilled at analyzing data and processes
- Proficiency in Confluence and Jira
- Experience working with business and technical staffs to define, document, and track requirements and design
- B.S. degree in computer science, management information systems, Business Administration, or equivalent experience.
Preferred:
- Experience with Agile methodology
- Project Management experience
- Experience writing user stories
- Experience with process design and/or documentation
- Experience working with security-based platforms for controlling access
- Experience using Visio or equivalent process mapping solutions
- Experience using JIRA and Confluence
- IIBA certification.
If this sounds like you, please contact us today!
Must be authorized to work in the U.S.!
