World Vision

  • Tirane, kerkohet IT Business Analyst

Tirane
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  1. me orar te plote
Fusha | Profili i punes
  1. Informatike | Programim
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A Business Analyst (BA) is responsible for identifying the business needs of their Customers and project stakeholders to help determine solutions to business problems. The BA leads all activities related to business case development, requirements development and requirements management through the rigor of activities across the Business Solutions Lifecycle [Strategic planning, Enterprise Analysis, Requirements, Design, Construction, Test, Delivery, Operations & Maintenance, Deactivate]. Specifically, the Business Analyst elicits, analyzes, validates and documents business, organizational and/or operational requirements. Solutions are not predetermined by the Business Analyst, but are driven solely by the requirements of the business. Solutions often include a systems development component, but may also consist of process improvement or organizational change.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:


    • The Business Analyst 2 will be responsible for the following core activities:
    • Identify and understand the business problem and the impact of the proposed solution on the organization’s operations
    • Document the complex areas of project scope, objectives, added value or benefit expectations, using an integrated set of analysis and modeling tools
    • Evaluate Customer business needs, thus contributing to strategic planning of information systems and technology directions
    • Assist the Customer in determining the strategic direction of the organization
    • Liaise with major Customers during preliminary installation and testing of new products and services
    • Design and develop high quality business solutions
    • Mentor junior-level Business Analysts

      Core activities are achieved through parts/whole of the Business Solutions Life Cycle (includes but not limited to the following):
      Phase: Strategic Planning
    • Deliverables: Strategic Plans, Strategic Goals, As-is Process maps

      Phase: Enterprise Analysis
    • Activities: Business needs, Business Domain Scope Definition
    • Deliverables: Business Case, High Level Product Description, Project Charter, Statement of Work
    • Skills and Techniques: Value Management Techniques, Facilitation and Consensus Building Skills, Conflict Management, Decision-Making techniques, Key Performance Indicator Development, Stakeholder Management, Requirements Presentation skills

      Phase: Requirements
    • Activities: Elicitation, Analysis, Specification, Documentation and Validation
    • Deliverables: User Class Analysis, Requirements Management Plan, Feature Prioritization Matrix, Requirements Documentation (Business/Functional/Non-Functional/Technical), Requirements Feasibility, Alternative Study, Requirements Baseline, Outsource Development
    • Decision, Request For Proposal
    • Skills and Techniques: Requirements Gathering Tools, Requirements Facilitation Skills, Requirements Writing, Early Requirement Verification
    • Techniques, Partitioning and Decomposition of Requirements, Risk Planning Techniques, Risk Identification Techniques, Risk Analysis and
    • Response Planning Tools, Prototyping Techniques, Feasibility and Alternative Analysis Techniques

      Phase: Design
    • Activities: Allocate and Trace Requirements, Mitigate Risks, Trade Off Analysis, Prototype
    • Deliverables: Requirements Change Management Plan, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Outsource Test Decision, Request For Proposal, Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Scenarios
    • Skills and Techniques: Change Management Tools, Requirements Allocation Techniques, Prototyping Techniques

      Phase: Construction
    • Activities: Manage Change, Trace Requirements
    • Deliverables: Development Code-Based Tests

      Phase: Test
    • Activities: System/Unit Testing, User Acceptance Testing
    • Deliverables: Functional Tests, Supplemental Tests, User Acceptance Tests
    • Skills and Techniques: Verification Techniques, Validation Techniques

      Phase : Deliver
    • Activities : Presentations, Training, Delivery, Final Documentation
    • Deliverables: Presentation Materials, Training Guides, System Delivery, Post-Implementation Support
    • Skills and Techniques: Facilitation skills, User Surveys and Interviews

      Phase: Operations & Maintenance
    • Activities: Documentation and Knowledge Transfer
    • Deliverables: System Maintenance and Enhancements
    • Skills and Techniques: Change Management Tools

      Phase: Deactivate

      Carry out additional responsibilities and projects as assigned, including administrative and planning functions
      Attend and participate in weekly chapel, daily devotional, and other team/departmental meetings


KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:

    • REQUIRED:

      Fundamental BA skill set requirements:
    • Conduct elicitation sessions; interviews, surveys, focus groups, workshops

      Analyze and Specify Requirements
    • Construct models, process, data, workflow, object-oriented, use-cases, functional decomposition diagrams, etc
    • Develop business architecture: as-is and to-be models
    • Analyze and manage requirement risk
    • Structure requirements for traceability
    • Prioritize requirements
    • Draft requirement specifications

      Document, Validate, and Manage Requirements
    • Finalize the requirements artifact set
    • Plan and conduct structured quality reviews of requirements and solutions
    • Develop test plans
    • Support technical team
    • Manage User Acceptance Test activities
    • Manage changes to requirements

      Solution Delivery, O&M
    • Manage Customer acceptance of new Business solutions
    • Analyze held desk requests
    • Conduct root-cause analysis of problems
    • Plan and implement continuous improvement of the solution
    • Administer Customer satisfaction surveys
    • Measure the value of new Business solutions and compare to benefit estimate in Business Case
    • Conduct root-cause analysis if the benefit was not obtained

      Administrative, analytical, and reporting skills
      Time management and personal organization
      Independent self-starter with a composition of technical/soft skills, and domain experience suitable to World Vision’s environment
    • (3 - 5 years) Relevant working knowledge of a Business Solutions Lifecycle (or equivalent framework/methodology) [Strategic Planning / Enterprise Analysis / Requirements / Design / Construction / Test / Deliver / Operations & Maintenance / Deactivate]
    • (3 - 5 years) Relevant working knowledge of a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) [Waterfall, Agile, RUP, Spiral, etc]
    • Demonstrated experience with technical team compositions and delineation of roles (Systems Architecture, Project Manager, Systems Developer, Tester, Support Operations, etc)
    • Demonstrated ability to be Service oriented, with logical thought processes and analytical problem solving.
    • Demonstrated experience working under pressure and on multiple tasks/projects
    • Demonstrated experience communicating through various mediums (Written / Oral), and capable of facilitating/training/presenting information to both technical and non-technical audiences
    • Demonstrated ability to rapidly gain proficiency on new technology and skills as needed by the work engagement (tools, frameworks, trends)
    • Demonstrated experience with CASE and ALM tools
    • Experience with Organizational Change management and Negotiations
    • Basic Conversation: English
    • Business Communications: English
    • Must be able to travel internationally
  • For online application please go to this link:
https://jobs.wvi.org/webjobs.nsf/WebPublished/C68228511F14D24C8825799F00432A20?OpenDocument
 
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