Business Analyst - Minneapolis, United States - Vaco

Description

Role: Business Analyst
Location: Minneapolis MN
Duration: 12 Month to 24 Month

Job Description:
The Business Analyst is responsible for execution of all aspects of requirements delivery- planning, elicitation, analysis and documentation, management, and support - for changes to Business Areas and Technology.

Business Analysis Planning
* Perform requirements stakeholder analysis to identify impacted or influencing groups and stakeholder requirements responsibilities
* Develop plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements, continuously improving the level of detail and accuracy of estimates
* Manage risks, assumptions and constraints for requirements, and communicate to appropriate parties
* Define the business analysis approach including tasks and deliverables based on the project and delivery methodology
* Lead requirements prioritization and leverage techniques to drive out business priorities

Requirements Analysis and Documentation
* Facilitate collaborative sessions with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review
* Apply advanced elicitation techniques to work with different types of stakeholder groups
* Analyze and document scope of the business solution using enterprise-standard requirements methodology
* Analyze and document detailed business and system solution requirements using enterprise standard requirements methodology
* Verify requirements for quality and validate requirements with the impacted stakeholders
* Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standards
* Provide consulting services to business stakeholders such as:
* Assist in developing evaluation criteria of 3^rd party vendors
* Assist in evaluation of 3^rd party vendor solutions and requirements
* Partner with 3^rd party vendors to ensure that the vendor requirements documentation:
* Adheres to client standards and/or structured and consumable by the project team
* Provides coverage of the scope requirements
* Integrates into requirements repositories for future reference and re-use

Requirements Management and Support
* Prepare requirements for review applying various communication techniques and lead requirements walkthrough and sign off sessions
* Apply advanced coverage analysis techniques to ensure relationship between scope, detailed requirements, and testing through to implementation
* Communicate the impact of changes through cost-benefit analysis taking into consideration time, effort, and business priorities
* Resolve conflicts/issues on behalf of BA team and escalate as required
* Support QA in development of the Functional System test cases
* Validate that Functional System test plan and test cases have full coverage of the critical requirements
* Support Design and Development activities by providing requirements clarifications
* Support UAT and PIV activities including planning, defect triage, and root-cause analysis for requirements-related issues
* Support the development of the end-user documentation and training

User Acceptance Testing:
Test Preparation
* Participate in requirement sessions.
* Develop test conditions to validate business requirements.
* Estimate UAT effort.
* Prepare test scenarios, test cases and test data.

Test Execution
* Create (or provide input) and execute UAT test Plan
* Execute UAT scripts
* Maintain traceability to ensure full coverage of requirements.
* Report defects and manage them throughout their lifecycle.
* Participate in resolution/retest of issues (defect and regression).
* Create (or provide input to) a Weekly Status Report
* Create (or provide input to) Defect Report
* Provide Test Execution Metrics

Testing Completion
* Produce UAT End of test report
* Provide Business Readiness Support
* Create (or provide input to)Test Summary Report
* Archive reusable test artifacts

Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

EEO Notice

Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

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Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.