World Vision
15.02.2012, 12:32
A Business Analyst (BA) is responsible for identifying the business needs of their Customers and project stakeholders to help determine solutions to business problems. The BA leads all activities related to business case development, requirements development and requirements management through the rigor of activities across the Business Solutions Lifecycle [Strategic planning, Enterprise Analysis, Requirements, Design, Construction, Test, Delivery, Operations & Maintenance, Deactivate]. Specifically, the Business Analyst elicits, analyzes, validates and documents business, organizational and/or operational requirements. Solutions are not predetermined by the Business Analyst, but are driven solely by the requirements of the business. Solutions often include a systems development component, but may also consist of process improvement or organizational change.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Business Analyst 2 will be responsible for the following core activities:
Identify and understand the business problem and the impact of the proposed solution on the organization’s operations
Document the complex areas of project scope, objectives, added value or benefit expectations, using an integrated set of analysis and modeling tools
Evaluate Customer business needs, thus contributing to strategic planning of information systems and technology directions
Assist the Customer in determining the strategic direction of the organization
Liaise with major Customers during preliminary installation and testing of new products and services
Design and develop high quality business solutions
Mentor junior-level Business Analysts
Core activities are achieved through parts/whole of the Business Solutions Life Cycle (includes but not limited to the following):
Phase: Strategic Planning
Deliverables: Strategic Plans, Strategic Goals, As-is Process maps
Phase: Enterprise Analysis
Activities: Business needs, Business Domain Scope Definition
Deliverables: Business Case, High Level Product Description, Project Charter, Statement of Work
Skills and Techniques: Value Management Techniques, Facilitation and Consensus Building Skills, Conflict Management, Decision-Making techniques, Key Performance Indicator Development, Stakeholder Management, Requirements Presentation skills
Phase: Requirements
Activities: Elicitation, Analysis, Specification, Documentation and Validation
Deliverables: User Class Analysis, Requirements Management Plan, Feature Prioritization Matrix, Requirements Documentation (Business/Functional/Non-Functional/Technical), Requirements Feasibility, Alternative Study, Requirements Baseline, Outsource Development
Decision, Request For Proposal
Skills and Techniques: Requirements Gathering Tools, Requirements Facilitation Skills, Requirements Writing, Early Requirement Verification
Techniques, Partitioning and Decomposition of Requirements, Risk Planning Techniques, Risk Identification Techniques, Risk Analysis and
Response Planning Tools, Prototyping Techniques, Feasibility and Alternative Analysis Techniques
Phase: Design
Activities: Allocate and Trace Requirements, Mitigate Risks, Trade Off Analysis, Prototype
Deliverables: Requirements Change Management Plan, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Outsource Test Decision, Request For Proposal, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scenarios
Skills and Techniques: Change Management Tools, Requirements Allocation Techniques, Prototyping Techniques
Phase: Construction
Activities: Manage Change, Trace Requirements
Deliverables: Development Code-Based Tests
Phase: Test
Activities: System/Unit Testing, User Acceptance Testing
Deliverables: Functional Tests, Supplemental Tests, User Acceptance Tests
Skills and Techniques: Verification Techniques, Validation Techniques
Phase : Deliver
Activities : Presentations, Training, Delivery, Final Documentation
Deliverables: Presentation Materials, Training Guides, System Delivery, Post-Implementation Support
Skills and Techniques: Facilitation skills, User Surveys and Interviews
Phase: Operations & Maintenance
Activities: Documentation and Knowledge Transfer
Deliverables: System Maintenance and Enhancements
Skills and Techniques: Change Management Tools
Phase: Deactivate
Carry out additional responsibilities and projects as assigned, including administrative and planning functions
Attend and participate in weekly chapel, daily devotional, and other team/departmental meetings
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
REQUIRED:
Fundamental BA skill set requirements:
Conduct elicitation sessions; interviews, surveys, focus groups, workshops
Analyze and Specify Requirements
Construct models, process, data, workflow, object-oriented, use-cases, functional decomposition diagrams, etc
Develop business architecture: as-is and to-be models
Analyze and manage requirement risk
Structure requirements for traceability
Prioritize requirements
Draft requirement specifications
Document, Validate, and Manage Requirements
Finalize the requirements artifact set
Plan and conduct structured quality reviews of requirements and solutions
Develop test plans
Support technical team
Manage User Acceptance Test activities
Manage changes to requirements
Solution Delivery, O&M
Manage Customer acceptance of new Business solutions
Analyze held desk requests
Conduct root-cause analysis of problems
Plan and implement continuous improvement of the solution
Administer Customer satisfaction surveys
Measure the value of new Business solutions and compare to benefit estimate in Business Case
Conduct root-cause analysis if the benefit was not obtained
Administrative, analytical, and reporting skills
Time management and personal organization
Independent self-starter with a composition of technical/soft skills, and domain experience suitable to World Vision’s environment
(3 - 5 years) Relevant working knowledge of a Business Solutions Lifecycle (or equivalent framework/methodology) [Strategic Planning / Enterprise Analysis / Requirements / Design / Construction / Test / Deliver / Operations & Maintenance / Deactivate]
(3 - 5 years) Relevant working knowledge of a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) [Waterfall, Agile, RUP, Spiral, etc]
Demonstrated experience with technical team compositions and delineation of roles (Systems Architecture, Project Manager, Systems Developer, Tester, Support Operations, etc)
Demonstrated ability to be Service oriented, with logical thought processes and analytical problem solving.
Demonstrated experience working under pressure and on multiple tasks/projects
Demonstrated experience communicating through various mediums (Written / Oral), and capable of facilitating/training/presenting information to both technical and non-technical audiences
Demonstrated ability to rapidly gain proficiency on new technology and skills as needed by the work engagement (tools, frameworks, trends)
Demonstrated experience with CASE and ALM tools
Experience with Organizational Change management and Negotiations
Basic Conversation: English
Business Communications: English
Must be able to travel internationally
For online application please go to this link:
https://jobs.wvi.org/webjobs.nsf/WebPublished/C68228511F14D24C8825799F00432A20?OpenDocument
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Business Analyst 2 will be responsible for the following core activities:
Identify and understand the business problem and the impact of the proposed solution on the organization’s operations
Document the complex areas of project scope, objectives, added value or benefit expectations, using an integrated set of analysis and modeling tools
Evaluate Customer business needs, thus contributing to strategic planning of information systems and technology directions
Assist the Customer in determining the strategic direction of the organization
Liaise with major Customers during preliminary installation and testing of new products and services
Design and develop high quality business solutions
Mentor junior-level Business Analysts
Core activities are achieved through parts/whole of the Business Solutions Life Cycle (includes but not limited to the following):
Phase: Strategic Planning
Deliverables: Strategic Plans, Strategic Goals, As-is Process maps
Phase: Enterprise Analysis
Activities: Business needs, Business Domain Scope Definition
Deliverables: Business Case, High Level Product Description, Project Charter, Statement of Work
Skills and Techniques: Value Management Techniques, Facilitation and Consensus Building Skills, Conflict Management, Decision-Making techniques, Key Performance Indicator Development, Stakeholder Management, Requirements Presentation skills
Phase: Requirements
Activities: Elicitation, Analysis, Specification, Documentation and Validation
Deliverables: User Class Analysis, Requirements Management Plan, Feature Prioritization Matrix, Requirements Documentation (Business/Functional/Non-Functional/Technical), Requirements Feasibility, Alternative Study, Requirements Baseline, Outsource Development
Decision, Request For Proposal
Skills and Techniques: Requirements Gathering Tools, Requirements Facilitation Skills, Requirements Writing, Early Requirement Verification
Techniques, Partitioning and Decomposition of Requirements, Risk Planning Techniques, Risk Identification Techniques, Risk Analysis and
Response Planning Tools, Prototyping Techniques, Feasibility and Alternative Analysis Techniques
Phase: Design
Activities: Allocate and Trace Requirements, Mitigate Risks, Trade Off Analysis, Prototype
Deliverables: Requirements Change Management Plan, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Outsource Test Decision, Request For Proposal, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scenarios
Skills and Techniques: Change Management Tools, Requirements Allocation Techniques, Prototyping Techniques
Phase: Construction
Activities: Manage Change, Trace Requirements
Deliverables: Development Code-Based Tests
Phase: Test
Activities: System/Unit Testing, User Acceptance Testing
Deliverables: Functional Tests, Supplemental Tests, User Acceptance Tests
Skills and Techniques: Verification Techniques, Validation Techniques
Phase : Deliver
Activities : Presentations, Training, Delivery, Final Documentation
Deliverables: Presentation Materials, Training Guides, System Delivery, Post-Implementation Support
Skills and Techniques: Facilitation skills, User Surveys and Interviews
Phase: Operations & Maintenance
Activities: Documentation and Knowledge Transfer
Deliverables: System Maintenance and Enhancements
Skills and Techniques: Change Management Tools
Phase: Deactivate
Carry out additional responsibilities and projects as assigned, including administrative and planning functions
Attend and participate in weekly chapel, daily devotional, and other team/departmental meetings
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
REQUIRED:
Fundamental BA skill set requirements:
Conduct elicitation sessions; interviews, surveys, focus groups, workshops
Analyze and Specify Requirements
Construct models, process, data, workflow, object-oriented, use-cases, functional decomposition diagrams, etc
Develop business architecture: as-is and to-be models
Analyze and manage requirement risk
Structure requirements for traceability
Prioritize requirements
Draft requirement specifications
Document, Validate, and Manage Requirements
Finalize the requirements artifact set
Plan and conduct structured quality reviews of requirements and solutions
Develop test plans
Support technical team
Manage User Acceptance Test activities
Manage changes to requirements
Solution Delivery, O&M
Manage Customer acceptance of new Business solutions
Analyze held desk requests
Conduct root-cause analysis of problems
Plan and implement continuous improvement of the solution
Administer Customer satisfaction surveys
Measure the value of new Business solutions and compare to benefit estimate in Business Case
Conduct root-cause analysis if the benefit was not obtained
Administrative, analytical, and reporting skills
Time management and personal organization
Independent self-starter with a composition of technical/soft skills, and domain experience suitable to World Vision’s environment
(3 - 5 years) Relevant working knowledge of a Business Solutions Lifecycle (or equivalent framework/methodology) [Strategic Planning / Enterprise Analysis / Requirements / Design / Construction / Test / Deliver / Operations & Maintenance / Deactivate]
(3 - 5 years) Relevant working knowledge of a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) [Waterfall, Agile, RUP, Spiral, etc]
Demonstrated experience with technical team compositions and delineation of roles (Systems Architecture, Project Manager, Systems Developer, Tester, Support Operations, etc)
Demonstrated ability to be Service oriented, with logical thought processes and analytical problem solving.
Demonstrated experience working under pressure and on multiple tasks/projects
Demonstrated experience communicating through various mediums (Written / Oral), and capable of facilitating/training/presenting information to both technical and non-technical audiences
Demonstrated ability to rapidly gain proficiency on new technology and skills as needed by the work engagement (tools, frameworks, trends)
Demonstrated experience with CASE and ALM tools
Experience with Organizational Change management and Negotiations
Basic Conversation: English
Business Communications: English
Must be able to travel internationally
For online application please go to this link:
https://jobs.wvi.org/webjobs.nsf/WebPublished/C68228511F14D24C8825799F00432A20?OpenDocument