Agile Business Analyst
Role:
H4 Technology is an innovative, rapidly growing healthcare software company that is currently looking to fill an Agile Business Analyst position. We are looking for an experienced business analyst with more than 5 years of experience gathering requirements, writing user stories and communicating with stakeholders. This individual must have strong Agile experience as well as a healthcare background.
Essential Functions:
- Elicit business requirements from business users subject matter experts and stakeholders
- The ability to define, document, analyze and prioritize requirements
- The ability to break these requirements down into workable user stories
- Write functional specifications
- Ensure the development of common standards and tools
- Translate requests and issues into actionable development tasks
- Define modifications to technical applications based on user needs
- Research, evaluate, and make recommendations towards reporting, analytic and business intelligent tools
- Prepare and provide decision support overviews, demonstrations, and presentations to a wide variety of internal and external audiences
- Establish and maintain positive working relationships with internal customers and external vendors, including individuals who are supervised by others
- Collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements to deliver the following artifacts: BRD, Business Scenarios, Use cases, GUI, screens and interfaces
- Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
- Identify and solve problems with or without assistance and guidance
- Serve a key role for system implementations, upgrades and maintenance activities as needed
- Serve as a liaison between business owners and technical staff
- Consult with vendors or technical staff to insure the functionality of system is consistent with adherence to laws and regulations
Job Qualifications:
- BS or MS degree OR equivalent years of work
- Strong Agile Background (3+ years)
- Healthcare experience preferred
- Experience working with end users to define and document requirements
- Experience with testing plans, test cases, business continuity plans, training manuals, and construction summary reports
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with software implementation
- Business Analyst certification is a plus
- Solid understanding of the healthcare industry and the information exchange between clinical, financial and other operational systems highly desirable.
- Demonstrated ability to meet established deadlines
- Ability to present ideas and information concisely to varied audiences
- Maintain confidentiality and comply with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Ability to establish and maintain positive and effective work relationships with coworkers, clients, members, providers and customers
- Understanding of the application development lifecycle
- Experience in business requirements gathering structured techniques for documentation, analysis, evaluation/validation preferably in a healthcare environment
- Excellent skills with the use of excel and graphic creation software
- Ability to communicate fluently in English both verbally and in writing
- Must be authorized to work in the United States/ sponsorship not available
*Applicants will be required to submit to and successfully pass a background check and drug test.