HBITS: HBITS-08-14930
Business Analyst
Analyzes an organization or business domain (real or hypothetical) and documents its business or processes or systems, assessing the business model or its integration with technology with distinct deliverables to a solution.
Senior
60 - 84 Months: Candidate is able to work independently, without assistance and provides guidance to others. May have an advanced education.
18 month contract
Interview: In-person
Work model: 50% telecommuting, 50% Office per week
--- Project Description ---
The consultant will be requested to prepare, conduct and
document the results of requirement elicitation activities. Apply
critical thinking to Client process streamlining opportunities
and user experience improvements. Confirm and communicate
the results of elicitation activities and requirements with internal
and client resources
--- Day-to-Day Tasks ---
1. Participates with the business to gain an
understanding of the business problems and helps define the
problems. Validates project scope and leverages validated
scope to maintain project focus.
2. Determines how to capture and document
requirements based on the development methodology used for
the business system.
3. Meets with stakeholders, subject matter experts,
process owners and users to elicit and document needs,
expectations, constraints and external interfaces using various
methods (e.g., brainstorming, document analysis, facilitated
meetings, focus groups, interface analysis, interviews,
observation, prototyping, requirements workshops, reverse
engineering, survey questionnaire). Asks the correct questions
to surface essential requirements information.
4. Defines constraints for verification and validation.
5. Builds consensus among stakeholders regarding the
true business issue and requirements.
6. Develops the business requirements by translating the
needs, expectations, constraints and interfaces into a format
understandable to both clients and technologists.
7. Develops requirements for solution and solution
component design.
8. Derives requirements that result from
architectural/design decisions.
9. Defines quality attributes, constraints and other non-
functional requirements.
10. Collaborates with developers and business subject
matter experts to analyze requirements and design tradeoffs
and priorities.
11. Establishes and maintains relationship between
requirements for consideration during change management and
requirements allocation.
12. Allocates solution component requirements.
13. Documents relationship among allocated
requirements.
14. Identifies and develops requirements for interfaces.
15. Acts as a knowledge source for architects, developers
and testers.
16. Establishes criteria for evaluation and acceptance of
requirements.
17. Obtains commitment to the requirements from the
project participants, including the elicitation of requirements
prioritization.
18. Manages requirements scope.
19. Manages requirement changes as they evolve during
the project.
20. Maintains traceability from requirements through
testing.
21. Identifies project work and requirements
inconsistencies.
22. Assesses change requests as either expanded scope
or undocumented requirements and places them in the change
control process.
23. Evaluates information gathered from multiple sources,
reconciles conflicts, transforms high-level information down
into details or low-level information up to a general
understanding, and distinguish user requests from the
underlying true needs.
24. Analyzes requirements to determine whether they
satisfy the objectives of higher level requirements.
25. Analyzes requirements to ensure that they are
complete, feasible, realizable and verifiable.
26. Identifies key requirements that have a strong
influence on cost, schedule, functionality, risk, or performance.
27. Presents requirements in written and verbal forms, as
well as via visual models and graphical form, in order to
communicate the requirements effectively to the required
audience.
28. Analyzes operational concepts and scenarios to refine
the business needs, constraints, and interfaces and to Client
new requirements.
29. Collaborates with testing lead to develop
requirements-based testing considerations and strategies that
will validate resolution of the business problem and realization
of business requirements.
30. Manages defects by assessing their disposition and
assigning them to the appropriate process for resolution.
31. Leads the establishment and implementation of a
standard set of operating procedures for effective requirements
engineering, including use and continuous improvement of a
requirements process.
32. Recommends tools and processes to improve the
effectiveness and efficiency of all Business Analysts.
33. Implements ways to reuse requirements across
projects.
34. Leads peer reviews and other governance activities to
assure ongoing consistency in requirements work product.
35. Mentors less experienced business analysts to drive
consistency and growth.
36. Guide Projects when multiple business analysts are
involved in a project. Sets the direction for requirements
elicitation and documentation.
37. Determines metrics for monitoring business analysis
work.
38. Builds trustworthy business relationships with
stakeholders and business management.
39. Partners with the clients on business case preparation,
project prioritization process, and technology road map.
40. Facilitates discussions between the business and
technologists in order to identify potential technical alternatives
and innovative solutions to meet the business needs.
41. Resolves problems as needed to ensure that clients
receive prompt and efficient service.
42. Identifies stakeholders and plan communications with
those stakeholders.
43. Defines roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in
the business analysis effort.
44. Develops estimates for business analysis tasks.
45. Plans how requirements will be approached, traced,
and prioritized.
46. Remains an active participant on assigned projects all
the way to closure.
--- Required Qualifications ---
• 72 months of experience in performing requirements gathering and
business analysis, producing written documentation of
requirements; system design and implementation
• 72 months of determining how to capture and document
requirements based on the development methodology used for the
business systems, meet with stakeholders, SMEs, process owners
and users to elicit and document needs, expectations, constraints
and external interfaces using various methods
• 72 months of experience in developing the business requirements
by translating the needs, expectations, constraints and interfaces
into a format understandable to both clients and technologists,
using various methods (e.g., brainstorming, document analysis,
facilitated meetings, focus groups, interface analysis, interviews,
observation, prototyping, requirements workshops, reverse
engineering, survey questionnaire by asking the right questions to
surface essential requirements information)
• 72 months of experience in developing requirements for solution
and solution component design, adapts requirements that result
from architectural/design decisions, able to define quality
attributes, constraints and other non-functional requirements.
• 72 months of experience working to establish criteria for
evaluation and acceptance of requirements, manage requirements
scope, obtain commitment to the requirements from the project
participants. Identifies project work and requirements
inconsistencies during defect / requirements management and
communication.
• 72 months of experience in requirement analysis and validation,
Analyze requirements to ensure that they are complete, feasible,
realizable and verifiable. Provide the capability to identify key
requirements that have a strong influence on cost, schedule,
functionality, risk or performance.
• 72 months of experience preparing and presenting the
requirements in verbal and written forms, as well as via visual
models or graphical form, to communicate the requirements
effectively to the required audience.
• 12 months of experience in Application Testing, Planning and
Defect Tracking, collaborates with testing lead to develop
requirements-based testing considerations and strategies that will
validate resolution of the business problem.
MVP Consulting Plus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process.