Business Analyst Jobs

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Possess the ability to distill information based on specific user/business needs, as well as decompose high level requirements into detailed functional requirements
• Maintain and groom product backlog and contribute to sprint definition exercises
• Coordinate requirement walk-through and sign-off with stakeholders to ensure use cases and process models accurately portray specific business needs
• Contribute to defining and improving best practices, processes, and standards
• Author requirements in the form of pseudocode (SQL logic) for the development and traceability of clinical metrics
• Create wireframes and/or mock-ups to graphically represent the functional design and user interface
• Work closely with the technical team to ensure functional requirements are accurate and complete
• Work with the quality assurance team to validate system acceptance and user acceptance test plans and test scripts to ensure error free applications, tools, and reports
• Contributing as a key member of the assigned SCRUM team
• Ensure detailed design documents accurately reflect customer needs and expectations
• Bring best practice and commitment to problem solving including skills to diagnose, evaluate and resolve complex problems and queries, and escalate as appropriate according to defined processes
• Other duties as assigned
• Elicit stakeholder requirements using interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis
• Recognize and accept that job responsibilities may necessitate having access to sensitive information including Protected Health Information (PHI) and other Personally Identifiable Information (PII) including customer financial information as well as proprietary business information and the requirement to hold such information in strict confidence during and after their employment with the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF/ACC)
• Capture, define, analyze, and translate functional and non-functional business requirements into succinct and testable user stories, activity diagrams, system use cases and supplemental specifications that contribute to effective software development

Required Qualifications:

• Attention to detail and delivery of quality artifacts
• A willingness, desire, and aptitude to learn new technologies and domains
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently, proactive problem solving
• Strive to meet client expectations and customer satisfaction
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to gather and analyze business process data
• Manage changing priorities within a fast-paced dynamic environment
• Innovative and creative problem-solving skills

Desired Qualifications:

• Business Analyst certification
• 2+ years working with large datasets/databases; reading and writing SQL code
• Experience with interventional cardiology terms and applications
• Ability to understand and/or write XML
• Experience with the agile methodology
• 2+ years of experience in Use Case diagramming, Business Process Mapping, Sequence and Activity diagramming, and UML required
• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• 6+ years of business analysis experience and requirements documentation in software development
• Experience in multi-tier web application architecture, preferably for data capture
• Healthcare industry experience (patient data collection, reporting, and accreditation)