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
- REQUIRED:
- For online application please go to this link:
https://jobs.wvi.org/webjobs.nsf/Web...0?OpenDocument
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