Business Analyst

The Business Analyst is responsible for gathering and documenting business requirements for products and project enhancements before they are developed. They deliver those business requirements to the Development team and will collaborate and complete Functional technical specifications, to ensure that the functional specifications match the business requirements.

Requirements

• Utilizes feedback from Product Managers, clients, industry experts, competitive analysis, customer contracts, and industry publications to document business requirements.
• Conducts interviews with individuals or teams to understand business needs.
• Documents and organizes requirements in a logical fashion, following standard templates and methodologies.
• Works closely with the Product Manager/Project Manager to document and prioritize business requirements.
• Collaborates with the Development teams and Test Teams to ensure technical functional specifications match what was intended by the business requirements, and the expectations of the customer.
• Obtains approval of the business requirements and design documents from the customer.
• Documents technical non-functional requirements (i.e. security, performance, scalability).
• Supports development team with other technical documentation.
• Communicates and coordinates with QA team to ensure coverage of certain scenarios during testing phases.
• Tracks and documents changes to functional and business specifications.
• Creates or assists others in the writing of user documentation, instructions, and procedures.
• Assists with the oversight of project schedules and coordination of third party/external partners.
• Monitors and documents post-implementation problems and revision requests.
• Creates tickets, stories and bugs (etc.) in the JIRA/DevOPs ticketing system and manages day to day prioritization with the scrum master.

Originally posted on Himalayas