DRC- Business Analyst 3(BA3) #786323

SmartIPlace•Columbus, OH

About The Position

This position will function as a highly skilled BA3 for Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's Project Management Office with specific responsibilities that include working with business units and other stakeholders to gather information using techniques like interviews, work sessions, storyboarding, and prototyping. The role involves eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and communicating business requirements, and translating high-level business requirements into more detailed user stories, use cases, and other functional requirements documents such as process flows, screen mock-ups, and gap analysis. The position also focuses on creating documents and artifacts for sustainable knowledge management, collaborating with program managers, project managers, and senior business analysts, and supporting Quality Assurance testing efforts. Additionally, the role includes creating and maintaining business process workflows and flowcharts, analyzing current business processes for improvement using a lean approach, performing validation of solutions, assisting in developing project task plans, leading meetings for requirements gathering, and implementing change management.

Requirements

Experience in the analysis, documentation of business requirements functional and non-functional: 3 years
Experience creating application prototypes and screen mockups: 3 years
Experience creating graphical representations of complex business processes: 3 years
Experience in using Microsoft products; SQL, Microsoft Office Suite, Azure, and GIT: 3 years
Experience facilitating workshops for requirements gathering: 3 years
Experience in analyzing data elements of enterprise applications; determining how the data elements relate to each other: 3 years

Nice To Haves

Experience conducting Facilitated Workshops for requirements analysis.
Experience creating workflows.
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 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.
Experience with change management processes.
Strong communication/ leadership skills.
Ability to collaborate with supporting resources across business and/or functional lines.
Have excellent oral and written skills/possess strong meeting and work session facilitation skills.
Have the ability to work independently and as part of a team, the ability to manage time and resources to meet assigned deadlines.
Have excellent organizational skills, proven analytical, planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
Experience utilizing agile tool sets including Azure, GIT, familiar with any tools.

Responsibilities

Work with business units and other stakeholders to gather information using techniques like interviews, work sessions, storyboarding, and prototyping.
Elicit, analyze, document, and communicate business requirements.
Analyze high-level business requirements and translate them into more detailed user stories, use cases, and other functional requirements documents such as process flows, screen mock-ups, and gap analysis.
Create documents and other artifacts to promote sustainable knowledge management within the organization.
Work closely with the program manager, project manager and senior business analyst.
Collaborate with Quality Assurance to support testing efforts.
Create and maintain business process work flows and flowcharts.
Analyze current business processes for improvement and lean approach.
Perform validation of solutions by analyzing the end product and the requirements specifications.
Assist in developing project task plans, leading meetings and other related tasks to gather and coordinate activities for requirements gathering.
Change management implementation.