IT Business Analyst - Health Services (Temporary - 6 Month Assignment)

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IT BUSINESS ANALYST - HEALTH SERVICES (TEMPORARY - 6 MONTH ASSIGNMENT)

Position Description

This position is responsible for understanding stakeholder needs and the business issues to be addressed. Collaborate with the business and technical stakeholders to define needs and ensure understanding.

Responsible for the discovery, analysis and documentation of business requirements. Decompose business requirements to create functional specifications for development. Collaborate with project, IT, and business management to ensure business objectives are achieved.

Possess strong technical acumen with the ability to translate information and research into non-technical language as necessary to effectively communicate across teams and stakeholders. You are a member of a team where you will participate in a variety of roles. These roles will be determined based on work initiatives and IT leader direction.

• Interact with Project Sponsors, Owners, Team Members, Vendors and Subject Matter Experts to understand the business problem that needs to be solved. Gather, document, and confirm business requirements. Contribute to the team accomplishments by completing assigned tasks.

• Analyze and decompose complex business requirements into functional and non-functional requirements. Fulfill the role of subject matter expert in functional requirement elicitation. Create informative, actionable, and repeatable requirements that are relevant.

• Create User Stories and develop Acceptance Criteria when using Agile methodology.

• Coordinate Requirements and User Stories with the QA Analyst.

• Initiate and facilitate communication and meetings with business and IT stakeholders.

• Develop use cases as a key communication tool between the business and technical teams. Document current & future state assessments.
  
  Perform gap analysis and any other documentation that will assist in the understanding of the business need. Make use of workflows, charts and diagrams to more fully describe business issues.

• Oversee the development of the solutions to the identified problems.

• Use and promote defined UCare Business Analysts standards, documentation, software tools, and best practices to achieve business needs.

• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for assigned UCare projects when needed. Assist business users with UAT documentation deliverables (UAT Test Plan, UAT Test Results, and UAT Defect Log).

• Prepare technical user manuals, system configuration documents and other technical reports. Prepare user documentation when needed.

• Other projects and duties as assigned.