Business Analyst

JOB DESCRIPTION This position will require a qualified Technical Business Analyst to take the lead in the following

tasks:

• Ability to create and document detailed business requirements, perform analysis,

outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for the stakeholders

• Author and update internal and external documentation, and formally initiate and

deliver requirements and documentation

• A strong understanding of the documentation development process, the software

development process, and product lifecycles

• Determine operational objectives by studying and documenting business functions;

gathering information; evaluating output and formats

• Improve systems by studying and documenting current state and business rules

• Ability to partner with other team members and stakeholder across multiple business

units to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way,

communicating effectively and efficiently with executive teams

• Ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience and business

information to a technical audience

• Ability to successfully apply complex knowledge of fundamental concepts practices, and

procedures of technical writing.

• Construct workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing

specifications

• Translating stakeholder requests into formal requirements

• Deliver high-quality business requirement documentation for business manuals, new

development, training manuals, user guide, and system guide

REQUIRED DEGREE Bachelor's degree

REQUIRED CERTIFICATION(S)

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI - MSP JOB DESCRIPTION

2

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE # YEARS

Must be able to effectively communicate (verbal and written) requirements with stakeholders as well as

development team

No min.

Must be able to collaborate with Project Manager, Architect, and developers to ensure business requirements are

communicated, accepted, and meet expectations

7

Must be able to translate and simplify requirements from stakeholders into written requirement documents for

development team. Documents include: Formal Business Requirements Document, Functional Design Document,

Technical Design Document, Technical Use Cases, User stories, Business Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix,

Test cases.

7

Must be able to create diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows of business processes 7

Must be able to create diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows of data flow through system 7

Must be able to create and manage test cases for Quality Assurance. 7

Must be familiar with software and database development concepts 7

Technical Business Analyst work on a software development team 7

Must have experience developing technical documentation for enterprise software users, system administrators, and

other technical audiences

7

Strong experience in requirements management and creating all documents listed above 7

Strong experience in mapping business processes into technical documentation 7

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE # YEARS

Strong experience in user acceptance testing 7

Ability to analyze business functions 7

Practical experience generating process documentation and reports 7

Strong working knowledge of relevant Microsoft applications, including Visio 7

Extensive experience with data visualization 7

Excellent communication with the ability to translate data into actionable insights 7

Scrum 7

Agile 7

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE # YEARS

Three (3) references of submitted candidates required. Please provide the following. Must submit with resume.

• First/last name of reference

• Title

• Company Name

• Job title of contractor while reporting to this supervisor/manager

• Telephone number

• Email Address (if available)

No min.

Preference given to candidates with the below skills/experience. Must also meet minimum requirements.

Skills:

Visio,Scrum