Business Analyst
BMI
Nashville, TNThis was removed by the employer on 1/13/2017 8:12:00 AM PST
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POSITION SUMMARY: Defines requirements for applications that support BMI’s internal operations efforts and externally facing services. This role will work closely with Sr. Business Analysts, business owners, executives, and the IT team to define requirements and will see them through to completion using the company’s standard processes. Adds value by uniting the team around project objectives, process improvements, technical innovations, understanding essential details, and bringing the team together to reach outcomes.
FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB:
Essential Functions: which may be representative but not all inclusive of those commonly associated with this position.
• Exhibit good understanding of the business domain and of business goals
• Apply strong facilitation, communication, analytic and conflict management skills
• Lead user interviews and capture comprehensive, actionable notes from interactions
• Conduct advanced process and data flow analysis; recommend future state business process improvements
• Clarify any ambiguity in business requirements and process flows to ensure sufficient understanding by the technical team
• Identify business engagement meeting points (e.g. interviews/workshops)
• Create draft presentations
• Participate in project estimating activities
• Provide clarity regarding business objectives and functional requirements during release and sprint iteration planning
• Track and report weekly status updates
• Assist QA with creating acceptance tests based on acceptance criteria
• Assist QA in conducting testing as needed
• Triage bugs and or defects discovered by QA during testing
• Participate in sprint demos and retrospectives
• Assist in user training sessions
• Participate in product launch, training and project closeout activities
Responsibilities may include assistance in the development of the following minimum deliverables by phase:
Request Development / Discovery
• Vision and scope statement
• Findings and recommendations regarding current and future state assessment; including justifications for project (i.e. expected business value to be delivered)
• Current state process flow and functional map
• Future state process flow and functional map
• Initial epics and user stories
• Conceptual data diagrams
Inception
• Stakeholder engagement plan
• Level 2 – 4 Value Stream Maps (VSMs) and BlueWorks Live process maps
• Updated (greater level of detail) epics and user stories
• Determine MVP user stories
• Personas and use cases
• User experience requirements / UI/UX wireframes
Delivery
• QA stories
• User guides and other training documentation
POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
Education: Bachelor’s Degree in related field; Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or Math, or equivalent industry experience.
Experience:
• Three (3) years’ experience as a Business Analyst (Business and Technology projects)
• Three (3) years’ of application development experience (SDLC)
• Two (2) years’ experience in of Business Process Management (BPM), Six Sigma and/or Lean methodologies
• Two (2) years’ of Agile software development methodology experience
• Depending on project assignment; requirements unique for related projects (ie., Salesforce).
Skills and Abilities: which may be representative but not all inclusive of those commonly associated with this position.
• Strong facilitation skills, including facilitation of large cross-functional meetings including but not limited to JAD (Joint Application Development) sessions
• Excellent relationship skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong presentation skills (creating and delivering)
• Business Process re-engineering and transformation experience (facilitation and design mapping)
• Agile experience (Epics, User Stories, Acceptance criteria development and backlog management/grooming)
• IBM Rational tool experience Microsoft Office Visio, Lucid Charts and BlueWorks Live skills
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Strong ability to understand business needs, technology capabilities, and to collaborate in a team environment
License(s)/Certifications Required: None.