Senior Business Analyst

Software Methods is seeking a
Senior Business Analyst
for a
24+ month contract opportunity
at our client in the
King of Prussia, PA area.

The position is primarily focused on project documentation and business analysis support of various initiatives. This individual will interact with the business users, gather and document As-Is and To-Be processes and requirements, as well as to document application dependencies, and provide improvement recommendations.

Specific responsibilities will include but, not be limited to, requirements elicitation, documenting requirements, supporting changes by creating change tickets and making sure the necessary release individuals complete the changes, and creating process flow and written documentation. The role will include working with the team, stakeholders, and vendors to ensure that the business analysis documentation is correct, complete and detailed. Ability to create, coordinate, and maintain a project backlog in Agile methodology.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, review, and document current structure and use cases of the application or process; Analyze and document current application dependencies
• Serve as a business liaison between clients and project teams to help understand user interaction
• Assist project manager in better understanding information gathered about user experience
• Ability to run meetings independently and document detailed meeting notes
• Assist business clients in developing requirements for future use cases
• Assist team in getting the current deliverable in a timely manner; Jump in and assist where needed to accomplish tasks
• Manage change requests to completion
• Track required tasks through completion
• Ability to develop/update existing materials and support the team in understanding of requirements or training materials as needed
• Develop process flows as needed
• Strong communication skills in working with a team and providing in time updates to project manager.

Required:

• Someone who is energetic and passionate about business analysis work, extremely positive and solution driven
• Self-starter and detail oriented
• Ability to lead assigned tasks to completion
• Excellent requirements gathering skills and experience
• Listening to customers and understands their current processes and needs; Experience in process design and/or documentation; Experience using Visio or equivalent process mapping solutions
• Ability to work independently, with minimum supervision; Can manage workload and priorities
• Experience in developing business analysis deliverables like requirements document, As-Is and To-Be process diagrams, use cases, traceability matrix, data dictionary, business rules, meeting notes, etc.
• Someone who has worked on cross-functional teams, on projects in a matrixed environment
• Experience working with business and technical staffs to define, document, and track software requirements and design; Can manage difficult stakeholders
• Most recent roles should show increasing responsibility as BA in agile and waterfall environment; Familiarity with Agile methodology; Skilled at analyzing data and processes
• Skilled at documentation best practices such as using revision history/version control/requirement unique identifier
• Willing to learn new things and share knowledge to others; Proactive; Resourceful
• B.S. degree in computer science, management information systems, Business Administration, or equivalent experience
• Experience working on a third party implementation.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with data inputs and outputs related to complex systems
• 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.