Business Analyst

Sample Skills/Requirements

• Five (5) years of Business Analysis (BA) experience
• One (1) year of experience using remote collaboration tools such as: Microsoft Teams, Skype, SharePoint, etc.
• Experience being assigned to multiple projects concurrently
• Experience with all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience with different project methodologies (Waterfall, Agile)
• Ability to create accurate functional requirements documents, including user stories, diagrams, process flows, Responsibility Assignment Chart (RACI), and other documents as needed for the project.

Business Analyst (BA) Senior

Sample Tasks

• Review requirements prepared by other Business Analysts (BA). Provide mentoring for these activities.
• Review requirements specifications to validate appropriate use of standard templates, and to verify that language is simple, clear, unambiguous, and concise. Provide mentoring for these activities.
• Lead requirements prioritization and facilitate the negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders. Provide mentoring for these activities.
• 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
• Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements specifying an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by those who must base their work on the requirements
• Identify the current- and future-state business processes; define quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements
• Lead requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards
• Participate in requirements prioritization and facilitate the negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders
• Analyze and document business requirements and required data to deliver work products throughout the project life cycle
• Coordinate Business Validation to verify that a set of end-to-end business processes function as intended
• Work with the product manager or project sponsor to document the product's vision and the project's scope
• Participate in peer reviews and inspections of requirements documents and work products derived from those documents to ensure that the requirements were interpreted correctly
• Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project
• Provide knowledge transfer

Sample Skills/Requirements

• Seven (7) years of Business Analysis (BA) experience
• One (1) year of experience using remote collaboration tools such as: Microsoft Teams, Skype, SharePoint, etc.
• Minimum three (3) years direct experience as a senior/lead analyst in multiple projects
• Experience with all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience with different project methodologies (Waterfall, Agile)