Business Analyst

Position: Business Analyst Duration: 6 months with Extension Possible Location: Saint Paul, MN (2 days onsite and 3 days remote) Description of Project Minimum Qualifications

• Seven years of experience in an IT Business Analyst role
• Three years of experience working as an IT Business Analyst on Agile project/product teams

• Experience working with Law Enforcement or Criminal Justice Systems
• Business Analyst Certification (IIBA certification or equivalent)
• Scrum Master experience
• Certified Scrum Master
• Experience working with Product Owners on backlog management, story writing, and story refinement.
• Experience working with Agile work management tools such as JIRA.
• Analyzing, defining and documenting requirements for object oriented applications, relational databases, complex queries, interfaces, extraction processes, reports, and dashboards using multi-system data.
• Leading the design and implementation for multi-faceted, complex, application development projects involving multiple stakeholders and IT functions.
• Problem-solving skills in problem definition, information gathering and research, alternatives analysis, applying creative solutions to unique and/or immediate problems, and appropriate resolution implementation.
• Ability to communicate clearly, present complex information to users in a comprehensive style, and translate technical and system information for non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate, work effectively as part of a team and maintain working relationships with all levels of business customers and technology staff.
• Leadership, mentoring and coaching skills for IT professionals.
• Experience performing, and advanced knowledge of, Quality Assurance and Project Management activities.

• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints.
• Write requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely. Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams), prototypes, or scenarios, where appropriate.
• Plan and facilitate project discovery sessions.
• Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements specifying an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by those that must base their work on the requirements.
• Identify the current- and future-state business processes; define quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements.
• Perform requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.
• Translate business requirements to System/Functional specifications, and pass them on to Application Developers.
• Coordinate Business Validation to verify that a set of end-to-end business processes function as intended.
• Participate in peer reviews and inspections of user story maps, epics, user stories, requirements documents, and work products derived from those artifacts to ensure that the requirements were interpreted correctly.
• Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project.
• Work with product owners to align with priorities and build product backlog with refined stories for the development team.
• Create user story maps, write user stories with relevant acceptance criteria, and review/update with the development team at refinement sessions and scrum events as needed.
• Conduct refinement sessions at various levels for scrum teams in preparation for story pointing and sprint planning.
• Plan, manage, and track team work items.