Business Analyst

Job Title

Business Analyst for Veterinary Science Labs

Job Description:

The On-Premise environmental monitoring platform is out of support and obsolete. This is a critical capability in the support of Veterinary Sciences monitoring and control. To ensure consistent support and future enhancement of laboratory environmental monitoring, we need to move to a modern cloud-based SaaS platform. This project will support Veterinary Science labs in central NJ, Redwood City California, position for new capabilities implementation in San Diego & Brisbane California.

Responsibilities

IT Business Analysis:

• Work with Informatics teams, IT Quality Management and CSV peers, and Research Scientific groups to plan Business Analysis activities and refine project plan
• Coordinate stakeholder assessments and management of stakeholders/sponsors
• Act as a liaison to ensure shared understanding, manage expectations, and resolve any conflicts or ambiguities related to requirements
• Collaborate with Informatics teams, subject matter experts, and stakeholder scientific groups to understand, gather, and validate formal business requirements
• Understand the workflows, processes, and datasets involved in the various business processes and their evolution in a data-centric environment
• Generate cohesive documentation of:
• Business processes / process maps (As Is To Be)
• Requirements documents (BRDs) & Use cases
• Validation requirements & specification
• Functional / Non-Functional and Technical specifications; inclusive of Agile representation (EPICS, User Stories, Issues, etc.)
• UAT Test plans & scripts; inclusive of execution & validation
• Identify instances where existing processes may be streamlined or improved
• Manage and maintain all requirements materials and traceability matrices
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date project documentation, requirements, design documents
• Capture and manage clear mapping of business rules, security, and data governance needs
• Develop UAT plans, test cases, and scenarios based on requirements
• Conduct UAT, facilitate defect tracking, and ensure that the developed data product meets user expectations
• Support agile approaches and participate in lessons learned sessions and provide feedback to improve future data product development processes
• Articulate and communication requirements to development teams
• Collaborate with digital capability managers, architects, and vendor engineers to ensure successful deployment of an effective, usable, and trustworthy product
• Assist with communication to business & stakeholder management activities
• Assist informatics team and project sponsor in executing a communication and change management strategy in support of project execution and rollout
• Strong skills in building and maintaining successful networks and relationships with key leaders across a single functional area to ensure IT projects are supported and successfully delivered
• Organizes and presents ideas in a convincing and compelling manner
• Persuades and influences others with effective verbal and written communication
• Understands the value of process-centric approach to business analysis and capability development
• Command of project management techniques and tools
• Develops or modifies moderately complex information systems documentation and conveys this information to technical team for translation into programming languages or implements into COTS technologies
• Identifies process, technology and organizational role changes necessary to support business goals and objectives
• Experience in leading business process re-engineering efforts for at least one medium-to-large software project
• Min 3 years of project management experiences, i.e. understanding the business need, defining a creative and useful software solution, and promoting the product to the user community and management
• Understanding of business strategy development techniques