Business Analyst 1.19

Focused HR Solutions•Phoenix, AZ

8h•$45 - $57•Hybrid

About The Position

This position is a 10-month contract to start in Phoenix, AZ. The role will play a key part in the internal Product team, focusing on reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating business processes, systems, and user needs. The Business Analyst will participate in product delivery teams using an Agile framework and facilitate user acceptance testing for new features and enhancements. Initially, the role is 100% remote until the end of the current year, with a transition to a hybrid model involving a couple of days in the office starting next year.

Requirements

5 plus years of business analyst experience in analysis, gathering and documenting business requirements.
Strong problem-solving, analysis and clear communication skills, both verbal and written.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field preferred.
Minimum of 4 years’ practical experience in technical business analysis required.
Minimum of 3 years’ experience in scrum/agile environments; Scrum certification preferred.
Strong understanding of lean methodologies like Agile, Scrum as well as Waterfall.
Strong experience in developing and maintaining Agile Product Backlogs.
Strong experience in Eliciting, Detailing, Documenting and Validating requirements.
Adept at communicating the business directive, goals and needs to the technical team and serving as client interface for managing user expectations and achieving client satisfaction.
Strong experience in creating use cases, process flow, data flow diagrams, wireframes and User Stories.
Experience generating requirements from business units and using business requirement documents.
Experience with process improvement, workflow, benchmarking and / or evaluation of business processes required.
Working knowledge of relational databases and database structures is required.
Scrum - Required
Agile - Required
IT Testing - Required
QA Processes - Required

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of current Microsoft .NET technologies including C#, ASP.Net, Cloud development and Google Workspace is highly preferred.
Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) certification preferred.
Salesforce
SQL Database
ADABAS/DB2
Oracle Database
Mainframe

Responsibilities

Review, analyze, and evaluate business processes, systems, and user needs.
Participate in product delivery teams leveraging an Agile framework.
Facilitate user acceptance testing for new features and enhancements.
Identify, document, and communicate complex requirements across systems and business domains.
Understand the integration of processes across domains, scope, charter, plans.
Collect business requirements and prepare written requirements.
Prepare business process maps, high-level workflows, use cases, functional specifications, wireframes, process flow diagrams, and report mockups.
Support development teams in obtaining clarification of requirements/features from business units in a timely manner to avoid delays in the development cycle.
Analyze business requirements to identify/suggest feature requirements, develop user stories, assist in identifying and documenting the scope of work procedures and decision flows.
Identify business processes for redesign; determine how to improve existing business processes and identify modifications to automated processes.
Communicate technical information to a non-technical audience and business information to a technical audience.
Participate in the QA process by understanding the implementation and helping to define test cases based on user requirements.
Other duties as assigned.
Conduct and/or Lead Technical Meetings.
Support Agile methodologies and attend daily scrum meetings.
Support team in planning and reporting of projects and project options.
Champion the right technical solutions based on documentable facts.