Technology Research Analyst jobs in Minnesota

Role: Business Analyst
Location: Minneapolis MN
Duration: 12 Month to 24 Month

Job Description:
The Business Analyst is responsible for execution of all aspects of requirements delivery- planning, elicitation, analysis and documentation, management, and support - for changes to Business Areas and Technology.

Business Analysis Planning
* Perform requirements stakeholder analysis to identify impacted or influencing groups and stakeholder requirements responsibilities
* Develop plans and accurate estimates for completion of requirements, continuously improving the level of detail and accuracy of estimates
* Manage risks, assumptions and constraints for requirements, and communicate to appropriate parties
* Define the business analysis approach including tasks and deliverables based on the project and delivery methodology
* Lead requirements prioritization and leverage techniques to drive out business priorities

Requirements Analysis and Documentation
* Facilitate collaborative sessions with large and diverse business stakeholder groups to drive requirements discovery, analysis, and review
* Apply advanced elicitation techniques to work with different types of stakeholder groups
* Analyze and document scope of the business solution using enterprise-standard requirements methodology
* Analyze and document detailed business and system solution requirements using enterprise standard requirements methodology
* Verify requirements for quality and validate requirements with the impacted stakeholders
* Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standards
* Provide consulting services to business stakeholders such as:
* Assist in developing evaluation criteria of 3^rd party vendors
* Assist in evaluation of 3^rd party vendor solutions and requirements
* Partner with 3^rd party vendors to ensure that the vendor requirements documentation:
* Adheres to client standards and/or structured and consumable by the project team
* Provides coverage of the scope requirements
* Integrates into requirements repositories for future reference and re-use

Requirements Management and Support
* Prepare requirements for review applying various communication techniques and lead requirements walkthrough and sign off sessions
* Apply advanced coverage analysis techniques to ensure relationship between scope, detailed requirements, and testing through to implementation
* Communicate the impact of changes through cost-benefit analysis taking into consideration time, effort, and business priorities
* Resolve conflicts/issues on behalf of BA team and escalate as required
* Support QA in development of the Functional System test cases
* Validate that Functional System test plan and test cases have full coverage of the critical requirements
* Support Design and Development activities by providing requirements clarifications
* Support UAT and PIV activities including planning, defect triage, and root-cause analysis for requirements-related issues
* Support the development of the end-user documentation and training

User Acceptance Testing:
Test Preparation
* Participate in requirement sessions.
* Develop test conditions to validate business requirements.
* Estimate UAT effort.
* Prepare test scenarios, test cases and test data.

Test Execution
* Create (or provide input) and execute UAT test Plan
* Execute UAT scripts
* Maintain traceability to ensure full coverage of requirements.
* Report defects and manage them throughout their lifecycle.
* Participate in resolution/retest of issues (defect and regression).
* Create (or provide input to) a Weekly Status Report
* Create (or provide input to) Defect Report
* Provide Test Execution Metrics

Testing Completion
* Produce UAT End of test report
* Provide Business Readiness Support
* Create (or provide input to)Test Summary Report
* Archive reusable test artifacts