IT Business Analyst

Cummins; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Cummins is seeking a Business Analyst to partner with various business functions to define objectives and requirements for information systems. You will work with application and technical experts to design, implement, support, and enhance solutions that meet documented business needs.

Responsibilities include eliciting, documenting, and validating functional and non-functional requirements, participating in testing, and ensuring alignment with business strategy and governance.

Qualifications

• Defines and documents business objectives and requirements for information systems.
• Gathers requirements across five aspects (process, information, event, socio-political, location).
• Analyzes functional and non-functional requirements.
• Assists with solution assessment and validation to meet business needs.
• Follows SDLC standards and testing methodologies to mitigate risk.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business to define success criteria for initiatives.
• Document requirements for small to medium projects; may work in a team.
• Elicit and document requirements across multiple dimensions as appropriate.
• Review test plans and participate in testing to ensure fit and quality.
• Escalate issues and build positive relationships with stakeholders.

Skills

Requirements Elicitation

Stakeholder Mgmt

Business Analysis

SDLC Knowledge

Communication

Education

College degree in Computer Science

Tools

Business Analysis Toolkit

Job description

Description

Job Summary

Partners with business functions to define, determine, analyze, document and communicate the objectives, business requirements and priorities for information systems and solutions; works with application and technical experts on the solution design, implementation, support, maintenance and enhancement of the information systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Assists the business to define and document what constitutes business success for small to medium size initiatives.
• May work as a part of a team on project definition and documentation for larger initiatives.
• Elicits, analyzes, and documents functional requirements across the five aspects (process, information, event, socio-political, and location), as appropriate for the initiative.
• May work as part of a team to gather requirements.
• Elicits, analyzes, and documents non-functional business requirements Conducts requirements management activities, as necessary, ensuring that the impact of changes are well understood and approved by the appropriate stakeholders.
• Assists with or conducts solution assessment and validation to ensure that functional and technical specifications meet the identified business needs.
• Assists with or reviews test plans and testing methodology to mitigate risks and participates in testing the solution to ensure the solution meets functional and non-functional requirements.
• Assists with problem analysis as needed.
• Escalates issues for additional analysis and resolution as appropriate.
• Develops positive relationships with both the business and other functions involved in downstream technical processes.
• Learn Business Relationship Management best practices to support delivery of business value.

Competencies

• Balances stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Business Analysis Planning - Identifies the activities needed to conduct business analysis considering the five business aspects, level of detail, and approach for eliciting requirements to plan for resources and techniques to document the business needs and solution characteristics.
• Business Process Design - Discovers, models, analyzes, measures and improves business processes using standards, templates, tools and methodologies to optimize business performance.
• Requirements Analysis - Evaluates relationships and interdependencies between requirements based upon their complexity and value to the business in order to determine feasibility and prioritization.
• Requirements Elicitation - Discovers and documents functional and non-functional requirements using the Business Analysis Toolkit (modeling the five aspects and creating use cases) to effectively communicate the business needs and solution characteristics for solution design.
• Solution Assessment and Validation - Assesses the proposed solution using the requirements traceability through the life cycle of the requirements to determine if they deliver the desired business outcome.
• Solution Functional Fit Analysis - Composes and decomposes a system into its component parts using procedures, tools and work aides for the purpose of studying how well the component parts were designed, purchased and configured to interact holistically to meet business, technical, security, governance and compliance requirements.
• Solution Modeling - Creates, designs and formulates models, diagrams and documentation using industry standards, tools, version control, and build and test automation to meet business, technical, security, governance and compliance requirements.
• Solution Validation Testing - Validates a configuration item change or solution using the Function's defined best practices, including the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) standards, tools and metrics, to ensure that it works as designed and meets customer requirements.
• Project Issue and Risk Management - Manages the process to identify, assess and prioritize issues and risks using recommended tools and disciplines. Drives actions to minimize, monitor and control risks and issues and to maximize the most positive outcomes possible.
• Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.
• Business Need Definition - Defines the business outcome that the proposed work will provide using the Business Analysis Toolkit (modeling the five aspects and creating use cases) to justify investment of resources (people, time, finances).

Education, Licenses, Certifications

College, university, or equivalent degree in Computer Science,