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Intermediate Level Business Analyst

Job Description
A business analyst is someone who analyses an organization or business domain (real or hypothetical) and documents its business or processes or systems, assessing the business model or its integration with technology.
A Business Analyst (BA) participates in the analysis and design efforts for various projects and business processes of low to medium complexity; Establishes a common understanding of the business environment in which a project or solution must be defined, designed, created, deployed, used, and supported; Applies knowledge and facilitative expertise to gather and define requirements

Responsibilities
• Work with business users to understand their business functions and processes in order to help them define project requirement documents.
• Conduct internal walkthroughs with the project team and ensure comprehension. Ensure requirements are being met as the project team progresses through the software development process.
• Follows documentation and development standards.
• Provide/confirm detailed estimates for assigned work units and provide communications for deviations from estimates. Proactively works with project managers to ensure appropriate time is allocated to assigned tasks.
• Assist with change management activities supporting production deployment to Developers, Quality Control Analysts, and Environment Management personnel.
• Track and resolve simple to intermediate defects.
• Review and understand detailed business and high-level functional requirements including security and audit. Participate in design reviews.
• Support test planning and participate in testing reviews.
• Assist in production support activities by determining the nature, impact, and extent of the problem. 
• Assist with change management activities supporting production deployment to Developers, Quality Control Analysts, and Environment Management personnel.

Qualifications
• Education: Associates/Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Communications, Business or related area
• Proven ability to be flexible and work hard, both independently and in a team environment with changing priorities
• 0-3 years working as a Business Analyst in a technical environment gathering and documenting requirements for technology projects.
• Application familiarity and/or insurance industry/business knowledge preferred
• Willingness to work outside of normal business hours
• Some experience working with the project team following a software development lifecycle preferred; Exposure to Agile a plus.
• Excellent English oral / written communication skills