Contractor Clinical Research Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Propose, analyze and contrast options for new features/functionality, using qualitative and scenario analysis to surface implications, assumptions and dependencies
• Assist in the investigation of reported system issues, by seeking out and reconciling relevant information, drawing appropriate conclusions about the root cause, and determining the optimal next steps
• Produce assigned deliverables with an emphasis on specificity, accuracy, and completeness/coverage
• Identify and document business/functional requirements and workflow ( as-is and to-be )
• Plan, prepare and interview stakeholders to elicit user requirements and system functionality
• Document clear, concise, and unambiguous user requirements and system functionality
• Decompose requirements into epics and user stories
• Develop wire-frames to assist with requirements development, system design and development
• Maintain requirements traceability across the user and functional requirements to the system design and test cases to ensure the implemented functionality meets user requirements
• Interface between the Product Owner and the technical team
• Advocate for business and user needs during the software development and testing process
• Communicate and clarify requirements to development team
• Maintain backlog of requirements, change requests, and bugs
• Review and/or develop test scripts
• Develop user guides and conduct training

Requirements:

• (Minimum) Bachelor's in Business Administration/Management/Commerce, Information Technology or a related discipline
• 4+ years experience working on web-based systems preferably on an enterprise scale
• 4+ years experience conducting interviews to gather and validate requirements
• Concise, clear and timely communicator (oral and written)
• Experience with process modeling (notation, arrangement/presentation)
• Working knowledge of MS Excel/Word/PowerPoint and Atlassian JIRA/Confluence
• Comfort with grasping the problem statement/objective(s) and details of varying issues, feature requests, or tasks
• Detail-oriented, with a strong commitment to quality and efficiency
• Experience supporting a cross-functional team using Agile methodology
• Experience capturing requirements as user stories with testable acceptance criteria
• Experience in testing applications