IT Business Analyst

Quantam Solutions provides IT solutions and consulting for various clients. We offer competitive hourly wages, health benefits, paid time off, and a 401(k) plan. We are currently seeking a Business Analyst. This position requires one to two onsite meetings per year in Frankfort, KY, otherwise this position is remote.

We have an immediate need for an exceptional individual to join our client’s organization as a Business Analyst. This opportunity is based in Frankfort, KY. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, critical thinking skills, possess leadership skills, and is committed to delivering successful and quality work products that completely address Business Unit requirements. The candidate must have the ability to envision impacts and possibilities of their work on the broader client organization and apply those thoughts to improve their analysis efforts.

The IT Business Analyst (BA) will assist the Project Manager (PM) in the management of the project work by facilitating communication with the business unit/customer, project team, and other stakeholders as necessary related to requirements and proposed solutions for the project. The BA will elicit business requirements (features & user stories) for assigned project requests and manage the product backlog. For each upcoming sprint, the BA will decompose the user stories to a consumable level that is understood by the developers.

The BA will lead the team in the identification of acceptance criteria for the decomposed user stories. The BA will ask business stakeholders probing questions and communicate that information to the development team to ensure they understand the requested work. The BA is expected to understand the business processes and to use that knowledge to make recommendations for business process improvements as well as improve the value to the end user and our client.

• Driving the adoption and integration of the BA roles and processes.
• Assess customers’ current capabilities and needs and identify potential vendor products as solutions.
• Act as a liaison between project stakeholders.
• Identify business needs and drivers of value and success.
• Work with technical teams to determine and justify a solution approach that maximizes customer value through improvements to workflow, production, efficiency and/or effectiveness.
• Provide technical and non-technical assistance to the PMO to develop project documentation.
• Work with project/business stakeholders and/or users to gather, document, vet and validate solution (system and software) requirements.
• Work with the development team on task creation and estimating.
• Work with the technical development team to ensure that requirements are effectively implemented.
• Work with project/business stakeholders and/or users to facilitate user acceptance testing.
• Work with customer contacts after solution delivery to understand ongoing needs and issues along with associated business drivers and assist in triaging within our client to engage resources to provide the appropriate response/resolution.
• Assist the Project Manager with management of the project by “owning” the analysis and testing components of the project.
• Lead the development team through the Working phase of the project by researching and answering questions about the defined work, identified bugs and assisting in technical roadblocks - escalating as defined in the project’s technical escalation process.
• Create and maintain the testing plan for the project following an iterative development methodology.
• Employ an iterative development methodology and lead the effort in defining features, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Manage user story (requirements), use case, and artifact gathering processes and clearly communicate to the business and technical team members what is needed.
• Ask probing questions to fully understand user stories with the ability to provide feedback on possible implications of any and all requests.
• Accurately and concisely articulate issues, questions, and recommendations to business stakeholders, team…