Short Description:
The Business Analyst is responsible for the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization.
Complete Description:
Seeking a BA to assist our IT staff and business unit SMEs from our Engineering and Contracts Administration departments with defining and documenting our business requirements.
• Experience conducting Facilitated Workshops for requirements analysis.
• Experience creating workflows using formal notation such as the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN).
• Knowledge of formal requirements gathering methodologies.
• Experience developing Business Requirements - project initiation document, what the needed achievements will be, and the quality measures.
• Experience developing Functional requirements - describe what the system, process, or product/service must do in order to fulfill the business requirements.
• Experience developing User (stakeholder) requirements - are a very important part of the deliverables, the needs of the stakeholders will have to be correctly interpreted. This
deliverable can also reflect how the product will be designed, developed, and define
how test cases must be formulated.
• Experience developing Quality-of-service (non-functional) requirements - are requirements that do not perform a specific function for the business requirement but are needed to support the functionality. For example: performance, scalability, quality of service (QoS), security and usability.
• Experience developing Report Specifications - define the purpose of a report, its justification, attributes and columns, owners and runtime parameters.
• Experience developing Requirements Traceability Matrix - a cross matrix for recording the requirements through each stage of the requirements gathering process.
• Strong organization and writing skills.
• Strong experience working closely with stakeholders
• Experience developing graphic representations of complex business processes.
• Requires proven success communicating verbally and in writing.
• Perform related duties as required.
Skills:
Skill Required / Desired Amount of Experience
Experience working as a Business Analyst
Required 7 Years
Experience developing Business and Functional Requirements
Required 4 Years
Experience developing Requirements Traceability Matrix
Required 4 Years
Experience with Business Process Modeling Notation
Required 4 Years
Experience developing Report Specifications
Required 4 Years
Solid communication skills, both written and verbal
Required
Program development experience with PA DOT’s ECMS system
Highly desired
4 year college degree or equivalent and IIBA-certified Business Analyst
Required