Senior Business Analyst

Manifest Solutions is currently seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a position in Columbus, OH.

• Manage own schedule of work and work with stakeholders or subject matter experts, with little supervision
• Demand Assessment – assist Business Relationship Managers to review and provide input into the business strategy and formulate business cases inputting analysis and views on high level business goals and outcomes
• Business Planning – begin eliciting business requirements and modeling processes (as-is/to-be, using Business Processing and/or Value Stream Mapping), recording in standard documentation, and socializing the project with other IT teams i.e. Architecture, Applications, Infrastructure, and Services
• Definition and Design – facilitate workshops to evolve scope, gather detailed requirements, develop use cases and begin visualizing the end result, using standard tools and techniques
• Requirements Elicitation – leads, designs and facilitates business engagements to establish scope, business needs, project objectives, outcomes and expectations on business processes 
• Requirements Management – Oversees end to end traceability against quality business requirements using appropriate tools and templates 
• Solution Assessment & Validation – Engages with key stakeholders to influence the solution design to meet business goals, scope and strategy requirements.
• Provides input into the identification and delivery of project benefits, traceability of requirements and impact of solutions.
• Develops cross business and service user communications, acceptance test plans and supports testing and implementation
• Delivery and Deployment – consulting role, providing clarification services regarding the project Vision, Scope and Requirements, plus assessing and managing Change Requests through the standard process.
• Assist testing teams craft suitable test scripts.
• Coach and provide daily guidance, leadership and direction to other Business Analysts or other members of the team
• Use templates, tools and (internal) processes consistently, helping evolve all as required, coach other Business Analysts on use when needed.
• Works with vendors to review and discuss products, and writes or participates in the writing of RFI’s and RFP’s.
• Reviews proposed designs and solutions for usability and to assure requirements are satisfied.
• Becomes domain and product expert by way of researching, testing, and familiarizing self with defined domains and new products and/or systems.
• Prepares and implements detailed, organized, and user-friendly written procedures for product and/or system end users.
• May develop and conduct end-user training programs utilizing a variety of training vehicles
• Observes various business processes and identifies and recommends opportunities for improvement.
• Supports procurement of new products or systems by conducting extensive product research and preparing detailed written reports to management
• Other duties assigned by management.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 4+ years of experience with business modeling concepts and business application development.
• Demonstrated strong business analyst skills and practicing Business Analyst on 2-3 medium/large projects
• Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) or Certified Business Analyst professional (CBAP) strongly preferred
• Experience with all phases of Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) with one or more of the methodologies: Waterfall, agile and/or hybrid methodologies
• Demonstrated knowledge of project management practices, process interviewing and mapping, and project scope documentation techniques
• Evidence of ability to lead, guide, and coach less experienced business analysts
• Ability to use appropriate modeling techniques and build business cases
• Strong teaming skills, collaboration, negotiation, communication, organizational, people management and conflict resolution skills
• Experience working closely with service providers
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with hybrid agile/iterative development methodologies
• Knowledge/experience using testing tool like qTest, HP ALM and agile development tools like JIRA