Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Tallahassee, FL

Responsibilities:

• Utilizing an Agile SCRUM approach, Business Analyst will work to develop and review Agile stories.
• Executing business process improvements, assist in gathering requirements from decision makers, and ensure best practices in quality assurance testing.
• Documenting requirements and traceability in tools including Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Team Foundation Server (TFS).
• Representing the business process problems along with solutions for the problems.
• Using toolkits such as ALM and/or TFS to help demonstrate innovations and improvisations to business stakeholders.
• Quickly course correcting, re prioritizing, and eliciting new information based on what was learned from customer feedback.
• Extracting collaboration and building a better understanding between development teams and clients.
• Producing business critical requirements through observation and trial and error methods.
• Critically evaluating information gathered from multiple sources; reconciling conflicts; decomposing high level information into details, summarizing low level information to a general understanding, and distinguishing user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Serving as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow
• Developing requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language.
• Making recommendations about products and features that would support positive, secure, and efficient customer experience.
• Working with other team members to help outline team roadmaps and communicate the roadmaps to internal stakeholders.
• Assisting with the business case planning, monitoring, eliciting, translating, and simplifying requirements to drive the design and/or review of test cases and/or process change requests.
• Assisting with the project's scope, acceptance, installation, and deployment.
• Working with developers, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and other users to refine and deliver requirements in a timely manner

Required Skills:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Rapid prototyping business flows.
• Minimum 5 years of documenting requirements/traceability experience using a holistic requirements management tool.
• Minimum 5 years of system documentation experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a Senior Digital Business Analyst, project management, or similar role.
• Understands the problem space from the business perspective.
• Proven computer skills in Microsoft suite including Excel, MS Access, PowerPoint, Word, Project, and Visio.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to lead, direct, and manage.
• Strong oral, analytical, and written communication skills.
• Strong analysis and documentation skills for creating End to End business scenarios for the development of test cases and execution.
• Strong analytical and industry relevant product management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into operational requirements.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and SMEs.
• Strong knowledge of web applications, client server applications, legacy applications, and database concepts.
• Strong project management skills including conceptualization, analysis, driving alignment, planning resources, and managing milestones.
• Agile/SCRUM experience specifically in Story/Acceptance criteria development.
• Knowledge of the interdependencies of key business processes, functions, and risks.
• Experience with TFS to plan and organize tasks, workflows, and reports for the Agile Team members.
• Must have extensive knowledge of the business domain, processes, and flow of the projects they are working on.
• Must have deep technical knowledge and understanding of the business requirements