Business Analyst

Symmetrio is actively recruiting for a Business Analyst for our customer, a large government organization in Philadelphia, PA. You will support the initiation, oversight, and completion of various special projects, including web projects, applications, and supporting functionality. The Business Analyst will work closely with the CIO and other departments as required, conducting all activities related to successfully gathering project requirements and participating in the discovery, requirements, design, development, deployment, and operations phases of various IT special projects.

This position will be primarily based onsite in Philadelphia

Responsibilities

• Conduct business observations and facilitate focus group sessions, vision exercises, and design review sessions
• Identify key internal and external stakeholders of projects
• Conduct whiteboarding/brainstorming sessions with stakeholders
• Perform gap analysis
• Collaborate with User Experience design and application developers in the development of presentation tier components
• Facilitate meetings with managers and users at various levels in the organization
• Work with cross-functional/cross-departmental teams
• Identify, document, and clearly diagram all requirements
• Develop detailed requirements
• Create business process and workflow diagrams
• Manage stakeholder relationships and foster continuous communication
• Assist with project scoping and planning
• Develop Use Cases and Test Cases for user testing
• Conduct competitive research on an as-needed basis
• Work closely with the project team on system development and design on an ongoing basis
• Conduct and prepare Knowledge Transfer sessions and periodic reviews as needed
• Build an organized library of all business analysis documentation
• Obtain stakeholder sign-off on all required documentation
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Proficiency in adhering to all required activities in each phase of the project, including Discovery, Requirements, Design, Development, Deployment, and Operations
• Understanding and ability to follow steps of various SDLC methodologies
• Ability to meet deadlines in an environment of changing priorities
• Quick learner in a dynamic environment
• Enthusiastic and dedicated
• Strong multitasking abilities
• Knowledge of business analysis techniques and tools
• Experience in meeting facilitation
• Ability to design alternative business process workflows
• Knowledge of effective ways to collect feedback and comments
• Familiarity with software development life cycle models (SDLC)
• Experience with Agile software development methodology
• Knowledge of Joint Application Development (JAD) approach to collect requirements
• Understanding of project management principles