Business Analyst

All experience levels will be considered with the job title adjusted accordingly. Serve as a Business Analyst within a large agile project. This position will be part of a dedicated project team focused entirely on growth in a core business area. The emphasis of this team will be to implement a new suite of insurance software to lay the groundwork for future growth. Specifically, this position will be focused on identifying and documenting the business requirements to meet the integration needs of our current software with our new suite insurance software. 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• All experience levels will be considered with the job title adjusted accordingly
• Consult with stakeholders to analyze their need, define product requirements, and strive to create solutions that improve the quality of the stakeholder’s business operations
• Challenge stakeholders to define the real business problem behind the “needs” to ensure that the solution team is solving the right problem, and not providing the right solution to the wrong problem
• Create user stories with relevant acceptance criteria
• Verify user stories and requirements are aligned with business rules and needs
• Gather and document technical and non-functional requirements for the internal integrations needed for the new insurance software solution
• Create supplemental requirement documentation including, but not limited to, wireframes, design flow, current and future state process maps, interaction diagrams, use case diagrams, data flow diagrams, etc
• Partner with the technical team to ensure proper understanding and build of documented requirements
• Assist product owner with refinement of the backlog
• Assist decision makers by gathering information needed to make decisions
• Able to break down user stories dynamically during the sprints and help the team complete assigned tasks
• Participate in sprint activates/ceremonies
• Partner with quality analyst and automation testers to assist in preparing test plans, test scenarios, and test cases
• Partner with the quality analyst and automation testers to verify testing criteria aligns with the business’s processes

QUALIFICATIONS  

ESSENTIAL  

• Knowledge of the SDLC, business processes, and technical aspects of software solutions
• Knowledge of agile methodologies and the scrum framework
• 3 years of in-depth business analyst experience
• Highly motivated, organized, big-picture thinker, and a self-starter
• Superior oral and written communication skills
• Basic understanding of .NET API development/architecture.
  
  

PREFERRED 

• Familiarity with Microsoft's Software Development Stack
  • .NET Framework, .NET Core, C#, SQL Server
• Software development, requirements management, and collaboration tool(s) experience
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
• Agile certifications
• 2 years of experience in the P&C Insurance industry