Role: Business Analyst
Location: : Plano, TX (Onsite)
Duration: 12+ Months Contract (Potential for extension)
Job Description:
· Requirements Gathering: Lead workshops and meetings with stakeholders to gather, refine, and document business and technical requirements, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
· Business Process Analysis: Analyze current business processes (as-is) and design improved processes (to-be), identifying inefficiencies and gaps, and recommending actionable improvements.
· User Mapping: Develop user personas and journey maps to understand user needs and experiences throughout business processes.
· Collaboration: Partner with development teams and solution architects to transform business needs into functional specifications, including user interfaces, business rules, and data requirements.
· Documentation & Design: Create clear, detailed documentation such as functional design specifications, user stories, and process flow diagrams, ensuring they are accessible to both technical and non-technical team members.
· Assistance in Planning: Experience assisting Product Owners in project planning, roadmap development, and estimations to ensure alignment with business goals and timelines.
· Agile Methodology: Actively participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives, to support iterative development and continuous improvement.
· Testing & Validation: Coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT) efforts, ensuring that all solutions meet business requirements and quality standards, and facilitate the resolution of any identified issues.
· Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as a key point of contact between business users and technical teams, fostering effective communication and ensuring requirements are well understood and executed.
· Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process optimization and contribute to the development of best practices that promote efficiency and effectiveness across projects.
Custom Skill Requirements:
· Business Analyst.
· Agile frameworks (Scrum)
· Proficiency in SQL and PL/SQL is a plus
· JIRA and Confluence
· Microsoft tools for reporting and data visualization.