Business Analyst at Talent Software Services, Inc.
Saint Paul, MN 55106
About the Job
BUSINESS ANALYST
Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a Business Analyst for a contract position in St. Paul/Hybrid, MN. Opportunity will be Six months with a strong chance for a long-term extension.
Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:
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Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints.
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Write requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely. Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams), prototypes, or scenarios, where appropriate.
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Plan and facilitate project discovery sessions.
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Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements specifying an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by those that must base their work on the requirements.
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Identify the current- and future-client's business processes; define quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements.
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Perform requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.
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Translate business requirements to System/Functional specifications, and pass them on to Application Developers.
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Coordinate Business Validation to verify that a set of end-to-end business processes function as intended.
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Participate in peer reviews and inspections of user story maps, epics, user stories, requirements documents, and work products derived from those artifacts to ensure that the requirements were interpreted correctly.
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Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project.
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Work with product owners to align with priorities and build product backlog with refined stories for the development team.
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Create user story maps, write user stories with relevant acceptance criteria, and review/update with the development team at refinement sessions and scrum events as needed.
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Conduct refinement sessions at various levels for scrum teams in preparation for story pointing and sprint planning.
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Plan, manage, and track team work items.
Qualifications:
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Seven years of experience in an IT Business Analyst role
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Three years of experience working as an IT Business Analyst on Agile project/product teams
Preferred:
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Experience working with Law Enforcement or Criminal Justice Systems
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Business Analyst Certification (IIBA certification or equivalent)
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Scrum Master experience
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Certified Scrum Master
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Experience working with Product Owners on backlog management, story writing, and story refinement.
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Experience working with Agile work management tools such as JIRA.
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Analyzing, defining and documenting requirements for object oriented applications, relational databases, complex queries, interfaces, extraction processes, reports, and dashboards using multi-system data.
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Leading the design and implementation for multi-faceted, complex, application development projects involving multiple stakeholders and IT functions.
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Problem-solving skills in problem definition, information gathering and research, alternatives analysis, applying creative solutions to unique and/or immediate problems, and appropriate resolution implementation.
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Ability to communicate clearly, present complex information to users in a comprehensive style, and translate technical and system information for non-technical stakeholders.
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Ability to collaborate, work effectively as part of a team and maintain working relationships with all levels of business customers and technology staff.
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Leadership, mentoring and coaching skills for IT professionals.
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Experience performing, and advanced knowledge of, Quality Assurance and Project Management activities.
If this job is a match for your background, we would be honored to receive your application!
Providing consulting opportunities to TALENTed people since 1987, we offer a host of opportunities including contract, contract to hire and permanent placement. Let's talk!
