Position: Business Analysis Specialist
Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid, 2 days on-site)
Employment Type: Full-Time Contract
Pay: $40-48 per hour based on benefits
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to plan and conduct working sessions where business requirements are elicited and reviewed
- Collaborate with ART Team and own Agile Program Vision, Backlog and Program Increment (PI) Roadmap; continuously communicate to the ART leaders and Team levels, the requirement and acceptance criteria with required documents within Tools like Confluence (e.g., use cases, process flows, business rules, user interface mock-ups, etc) for the concept and definition phases of the project
- Support system test planning to ensure that test conditions, scripts, validation criteria, and expected results will successfully test the business and non-functional requirements
- Participate in design reviews to ensure that detailed designs meet the needs of business and non-functional requirements
- Manage requirements process using the appropriate requirement management tools (e.g. Jira).
- Assure that necessary research is performed to fully understand the business issues, develop possible business solutions and to support development of innovative, cost-effective solutions
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, related discipline, or equivalent work experience
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience in business analysis, or other related experience
- Broad understanding of the P&C insurance industry, its products, practices and operations
- Broad knowledge of the system development life cycle, and technology alternatives using Agile methodologies; understanding of interface design and external vendor Integrations
- Experience in Legal Matter workflows and Life Cycle
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Solid oral and written communication skills and ability to convey business requirements with Agility and backlog maintenance & refinement
- Solid client and interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively with clients and IT staff
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
- Advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office Suite and other business-related software systems