Software Business Analyst - Hybrid

The Business Analyst’s role is to analyze, specify, validate, and test the business needs of stakeholders. This includes gathering and compiling user requirements to understand the technology solutions needed, designing user‑centric solutions, and validating these through testing. The role also focuses on increasing efficiency for the business by providing actionable insights and effective software solutions. The Business Analyst will apply communication, analytical, problem‑solving, and testing skills to help the business make informed technology decisions while ensuring solutions meet the intended requirements.

The Business Analyst will play a pivotal role in ensuring IT’s understanding of business requirements and delivering high‑quality outcomes.

• Mid‑Senior level

• Full‑time

• Research, Analyst, and Information Technology

• Oil and Gas

• Gainesville, GA

• Collaborate with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision
• Clearly identify project stakeholders and establish user classes, as well as their characteristics
• Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods
• Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project‑by‑project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics
• Work with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements
• Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements‑gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes

• Assist in conducting research on software and hardware products to meet agreed‑upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts
• Participate in the testing of solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized
• Contribute to designing user interfaces and workflows that align with the gathered requirements and business objectives
• Participate in the selection of any requirements documentation software solutions that the organization may opt to use

• Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards
• Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications
• Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team
• Where applicable, develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on user requirements
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team
• Plan and execute testing strategies to validate requirements and ensure solutions meet the defined business needs
• Develop and execute test cases, document test results, and work with developers to resolve identified issues
• Facilitate user acceptance testing (UAT) and ensure the alignment of deliverables with user expectations
• Conduct peer reviews of business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted
• Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate these back to the business stakeholders
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements – verbally or through written documentation – to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood

• High school diploma or equivalency required
• Bachelor’s degree from a 4‑year college/university (business, computer science, information systems or related field preferred) or a minimum of 4 years’ related experience

• Five years of experience as a Business Analyst or similar role, with a track record of gathering and documenting detailed business and functional requirements
• Microsoft Office Suite…