Business Analyst

One of our clients in the government domain is seeking a business analyst. This position will function as a highly skilled BA3 for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction’s Project Management Office. Business Analyst Columbus, Ohio (Remote) Long Term Contract Interview -On Teams Key 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, gap analysis, etc. 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 workflows and flowcharts. Analyze current business processes for improvement and a 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. Desired Experience: 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 to fulfill the business requirements. Experience in developing User (stakeholder) requirements is a very important part of the deliverables; the needs of the stakeholders will have to be correctly interpreted. This delivery 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 changing 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. Can work independently and as part of a team, with 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, and familiar with any tools. Required Skills: Experience in the analysis, documentation of business requirements, functional and non-functional Experience creating application prototypes and screen mockups Experience creating graphical representations of complex business processes Experience in using Microsoft products: SQL, Microsoft Office Suite, Azure, and GIT Experience facilitating workshops for requirements gathering Experience in analyzing data elements of enterprise applications, determining how the data elements relate to each other