Senior Business Analyst - HonorVet Technologies

Job Position - Senior Business Analyst
Location – Houston TX, Hybrid role - 3 days in office
Job Description –
Digital Disposal Applications
Position Overview

• We are seeking a senior Business Analyst to support our client project in Digital Disposal Applications Team. The team currently has a project to perform enhancements to their existing Point-of-Sale and environmental compliance system, Fastlane. The project will build on, enhance, or enable new functionalities in the system to better enable pricing rate changes and improve customer experience by performing visibility improvements to invoices. The role will work with multiple technical and business stakeholders to ensure end to end success of the workflow.
• Specifically, the person must have recent experience working on software application development projects where they are responsible for defining and documenting the application requirements, working with development and quality assurance teams for a successful deployment.
• The ideal candidate will have strong written and verbal communications skills.
• Additionally, the candidate should have experience in developing functional and technical software requirements and use cases in complex software development and integration projects. The candidate must be comfortable interacting with both front-line and senior stakeholders to discuss business needs and to facilitate a clear understand of issues and their priority.
• Superior Documentation skills and Organizational skills are paramount. Must have a driven, intellectual curiosity to understand and anticipate functional issues as systems are integrated. Selected hire will have significant business process change experience and functional command of systems integration efforts coupled with exceptional Use Case Development skills. With heavy documentation behind business process changes amidst the technical integration, the selected hire must have experience with project/process documentation and an ability to create a functional library of cross-referenced documents. The selected hire will have exceptional verbal & written communication skills, be comfortable interacting with Sr. Leaders in Business and Technology, and be proactive in eliciting information, probing for details, and foreseeing technical / stakeholder challenges before they occur.

General Responsibilities

• Coordinates with users to determine and document business and user
• requirements, process flow definitions, and functional specifications.
• Responsible for document repositories, maintenance, and updates of project documentation library.
• Create workflow diagrams and screen mockups
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Under minimal supervision, acts as a liaison between the technology and
• business groups in the development of new systems and enhancement of existing systems.
• Conduct advanced level business process analysis, needs assessments and
• preliminary cost/benefit analysis to align technology solutions with business initiatives.
• Leads project team with gaining business user acceptance.
• Reviews progress and evaluates results for accuracy and efficiency.
• Resolves issues arising from internal department functions, or as brought forth
• by internal or external customers to assigned department.
• Tracks issues to resolution within department and in partnership with other groups.
• Monitors overall workflow to ensure timely completion of projects and daily work requirements.
• Work with Dev and testing teams to explain requirements, do sanity checks and review test cases
• Write acceptance criteria for stories and defects

Required Job Skills & Experience

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Minimum 5 years acting as a business analyst in an applications development environment
• Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent experience, in a relevant discipline
• Expertise in development of use case and test case documentation

Important Differentiators

• Experience in all phases of a project development lifecycle in a fortune 1000
• company working in a larger team setting (> 5 team members)
• CBAP or CCBA certification
• Experience acting as a project lead and ability to work independently
• Experience in a Quality Assurance role, or a role that closely interacts with QA
• Training and training documentation development
• Coding or software development background
• Data analysis and/or database skills with MS SQL and/or Oracle
• User interface/user experience design background

Must Have Skill (Top 3):
1.) Strong written and verbal communication, comfortable in interacting with all types of users including front-line
2.) Software application requirements & use case development
3.) Experience prioritizing user requirements and defects with integrated software systems

Nice to Have Skill (Top 3):
1.) Ability to create and maintain a functional library of cross-referenced documents
2.) Experience with Jira and Service now (requirements and defect tracking systems)
3.) Experience with integrating software systems and coordinating different stakeholder groups