Business Analyst

The Business Analyst will provide leadership to achieve a successful end-to-end user experience for a set of projects to be delivered concurrently.  The BA works closely with user representatives (Marketing, Manufacturing, Finance, Customer Support, Sales, etc.) and the software development teams (Application Development, IT, Architecture) during the Requirements and Planning, Design, Development, and Verification / Validation phases of a project. The BA must develop expertise with end-to-end business processes (customer and internal), software applications and structure.  The role will involve understanding, structuring, detailing, and validating the requirements to ensure a suitable end-to-end solution.

Duties & Responsibilities:

·  Facilitate requirements meetings to understand and collect product, business and
technical needs

·  Resolve ambiguities and conflicting business and technical requirements to build
consensus, and drive to an agreed upon solution

·  Proactively identify issues concerning technical limitations and key product
requirements

·  Document the set of requirements, allocation to applications, application communication protocol, and use cases

·  Create and manage the documentation matrix and schedule for program delivery. 

·  Follow Align Technology, Inc development processes.  Assure adherence by documentation team to processes (e.g. timely ECO), and regulatory requirements.

·  Lead work with user representatives to validate the user experience has been captured / defined appropriately

·  Work closely with Development to assure that Designs and developed applications adequately reflect requirements – bringing in user representatives as appropriate – making revisions to software requirements as appropriate

·  Work closely with SQA to assure that functional and performance test cases adequately reflect requirements – bringing in user representatives as appropriate

·  Lead user application and end-to-end user validation and documentation prior to release

·  Develop schedules for completion of responsibilities, manage deliverables, and provide status updates

 

Requirements:

·  7+ years of relevant experience in business analysis, software development, or project management

·  3+ years of relevant experience in requirements analysis

·  Experience using structured software life cycle & development methodologies, (RUP, RM-ODP, RAD, etc.), as well as rapid prototyping.

·  Software development experience preferred

·  Experience performing business analysis, software design and project management

·  Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts degree – Required

·  Software Development, Technical Writing or Engineering Degree preferred