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Business Analyst is responsible for requirement activities on medium enhancements and projects. The role demonstrates solid knowledge and ability, and conducts business analysis, with minimal or no guidance, in the full range of typical situations. The role is responsible for the execution of all aspects of requirements delivery- planning, elicitation, analysis and documentation, management, and support - for changes to Business Areas and Technology.

Key Accountabilities

Business Analysis Planning – 15%
- Perform requirements stakeholder analysis to identify impacted or influencing individuals or groups and their requirements responsibilities
- Develop plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements, continuously improving the level of detail and accuracy of estimates
- Manage risks, assumptions and constraints for requirements, and communicate to appropriate parties
- Lead requirements prioritization and leverage techniques to drive out business priorities
- Review and validate the requirements approach with a Senior BA

Requirements Analysis and Documentation – 50%
- Facilitate collaborative sessions with small to medium number of business stakeholders to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review
- Lead 1:1 elicitation sessions and apply various techniques to get a more in-depth understanding of the problem domain and prepare requirements drafts
- Analyze and document the scope of the business solution using industry-standard requirements techniques
- Analyze and document detailed business and system solution requirements, using enterprise requirements methodology
- Verify requirements for quality and validate requirements with the impacted stakeholders
- Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following enterprise standards
- Provide consulting services to business stakeholders such as:
- Assist in developing evaluation criteria of 3rd party vendors
- Assist in the evaluation of 3rd party vendor solutions and requirements
- Partner with 3rd party vendors to ensure that the vendor requirements documentation:
- Adheres to company's standards and/or structured and consumable by the project team
- Provides coverage of the scope requirements
- Integrates into requirements repositories for future reference and re-use

Requirements Management and Support – 20%
- Prepare requirements for review applying various communication techniques and lead requirements walkthrough and sign off sessions
- Conduct coverage analysis to ensure the relationship between scope, detailed requirements, testing through to implementation
- Follow standard change management processes based on the delivery methodologies
- Resolve conflicts/issues and escalate as required
- Support QA in development of the Functional System test cases and validate that test cases have full coverage of the critical requirements
- Support Design and Development activities by providing requirements clarifications
- Support UAT and PIV activities such as planning, defect triage, and root-cause analysis for requirements-related issues
- Support the development of end-user documentation and training

Leadership and Relationship Management – 15%
- Leverage areas of expertise to provide support to the more junior BAs
- Ensure overall deliverables quality and adherence to enterprise-standard methodologies
- Effectively communicate and build rapport with team members and stakeholders
- Establish an environment of cooperation, collaboration, and teamwork among colleagues, business groups and Technology
- Continually enhance skills and build knowledge in all aspects of the organization and within the business analysis domain

Capabilities and Skills

- Working as a Business Analyst with progressively increasing responsibilities in the areas of requirements management in small to medium projects.

Education / certification requirements
- Relevant college, university, and/or post-graduate degree in Business Analysis
- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Project Management Institute –Professional in Business Analysis (PMI – PBA) Certification (Preferred)
- Masters Certificate in Business Analysis (Preferred)

Details on skills and knowledge
- Proven experience with various project delivery methodologies such as Waterfall, Iterative and/or Agile
- Experience in requirements planning and prioritization including stakeholder analysis and effort estimation
- Requirements elicitation techniques such as Document analysis, Interviews, Facilitated workshops, Observation, Prototyping, Focus groups, Surveys
- Requirements analysis and documentation:
- Scope Modelling
- Business Process Modelling
- Use Cases and Scenarios
- Data Requirements
- Business Rules Analysis and Decision Modelling
- User Interface Design
- Non Functional requirements
- User Stories, Story Decomposition, and Story Mapping
- Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition
- Requirements management and communication – requirements walkthroughs; scope and change management; traceability; configuration management, Backlog Management