What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Analyst III - Guidewire position at TechWish?
Job Description Summary
This role works directly with stakeholders to define, document, and drive business requirements for technology and process changes.
This role is responsible for owning business requirements analysis and definition/documentation, facilitating cross-functional collaboration, and managing requirements through the product lifecycle, including UAT testing support.
Under limited supervision, this role formulates and defines systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and a good understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements. This role is expected to apply knowledge of business analysis methodologies, tools, and techniques to ensure solutions meet business needs.
Role partners closely with individuals in the business as well as IT.
Job Description
Requirements Elicitation and Analysis
Preferred : Guidewire Certified Business Analyst
This role works directly with stakeholders to define, document, and drive business requirements for technology and process changes.
This role is responsible for owning business requirements analysis and definition/documentation, facilitating cross-functional collaboration, and managing requirements through the product lifecycle, including UAT testing support.
Under limited supervision, this role formulates and defines systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and a good understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements. This role is expected to apply knowledge of business analysis methodologies, tools, and techniques to ensure solutions meet business needs.
Role partners closely with individuals in the business as well as IT.
Job Description
Requirements Elicitation and Analysis
- Support stakeholder engagement efforts (e.g., interviews, workshops) to elicit business and data requirements. Partners closely with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand business context - problem, current state, desired future state, objectives, business needs and impacted user groups.
- Prepare business validation (UAT) plan for Guidewire with experience in testing Rating
- Plans, manages and may execute testing of application, system and/or process changes/upgrades at key phases of development, including writing test plans, developing test cases with expected results, and scheduling tests in concert with testing leads in IT.
- Partners with data group to execute testing of process for data components.
- Support business users in executing business validation.
- Review test results and support issues resolution in alignment with business stakeholders.
- Under limited supervision, document business requirements, using the appropriate technique (i.e., customer journeys, business context diagram, process flows, use case model, conceptual data models, SMART requirements)
- Translate business requirements into functional design specifications.
- With guidance, identifies key data inputs and required flows across multiple systems in alignment with data center of excellence expectations.
- As needed, in collaboration with SMEs, create current and future state system process journey maps, considering system flows and data streams.
- With some leadership support, manage the requirements throughout the project lifecycle, facilitating validation, prioritization, approval, and traceability (from initiation through delivery).
- Manage requirements change process, ensuring that changes are properly communicated, documented and assessed for impact and risk.
Preferred : Guidewire Certified Business Analyst