IT Business Analyst

SCA Health is a leading organization in specialty care, focused on providing patient-centered practice solutions across a network of surgical centers and clinics. The IT Business Analyst will be responsible for creating comprehensive business requirements, facilitating discussions with stakeholders, and ensuring that projects meet their original intent through rigorous testing and communication.

Responsibilities:

• This position is responsible for the creation of sound, complete business requirements for assigned projects
• In additional this position will apply those requirements against our application testing methodology ensuring the end product is consistent with the original intent
• This role will ensure business requirements are complete, thorough and tested
• In pursuit of complete business requirements, this position will interview the sponsor(s) of the project as well as collateral contributors (stakeholders) of the project to document their needs and desires (requirements)
• This position is also responsible for helping contributors crystallize their thoughts to minimize the likelihood that key functionality or obvious control parameters are not omitted in the initial requirements document
• The Business Analyst will be expected to facilitate requirements discussions, capture information, document the requirements and obtain sign-off from stakeholders
• Additionally this position will lead assigned projects through the testing phase ensuring that test cases are built which exercise the application against original requirements
• It will be the responsibility of this position to ensure any new requirements identified in the testing phase are appropriately channeled through the change control process
• The position will require management of risks, completion of status reports, approving deliverables and post deliverable assessment
• Significant interaction with SCA leaders will be a requirement of this position so this individual must be comfortable working with the highest levels of senior management
• Lead requirements meetings
• Capture all business needs
• Ensure the requirements match the approved scope of the project
• Detail out the scope requirements
• Produce detailed business requirements document
• Ensure all stakeholders approve the business requirements before the development phase starts
• Facilitate team and client meetings effectively
• Attend project team meetings for assigned projects
• Effectively communicate relevant project information to superiors
• Resolve and/or escalate difficult/sensitive information tactfully
• Posses general understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design
• Understand Internet, Intranet and client/server architectures
• Maintain awareness of new and emerging technologies
• Possess a thorough understanding of information technology capabilities
• Develop lasting business relationships with client personnel
• Communicate effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions
• Build a knowledge base of each client’s business, organization and objectives
• Apply business requirements to SCA’s testing methodologies and create test scripts
• Oversee the application of test scripts to ensure the desired result
• Create a test plan and perform hands-on testing of the applications when necessary
• Log and report progress against the project’s test plan as necessary

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years experience as a Business Analyst in an IT environment
• Bachelor's degree or significant business requirements experience required
• Experience building business requirements, test scripts and/or test plans required
• Experience with Visio and Word and Outlook
• Exceptional analytical and organizational skills, including a proven ability to adapt to a dynamic project environment
• Proven ability to manage key stakeholders while managing competing priorities
• Strong leadership skills including conflict/issue resolution
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and written with clients, stakeholders and senior management
• Ability to work effectively with project resources across multiple departments
• Relevant certification or advanced degrees a plus
• Preferred to have previous HR/Talent Acquisition and/or Revenue Cycle experience