Business Analyst : Louisiana Gaming Job Baton Rouge Louisiana USA,IT/Tech

Position: Business Analyst : Louisiana Gaming Commission

Business Analyst

Client is hiring immediately for a dynamic & highly collaborative Business Systems Analyst with experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment on a web application development project designing and developing a new system to replace a suite of legacy applications that are public facing. The majority of your day will be spent running requirement elicitation sessions to gather information from the technical dev team and business stakeholders to create user stories, BRD, FRD, as-is-to-be, process flow documentation, use cases and other documentation.

This position will be onsite Mon-Fri for the first 6 months, with option to allow remote work from home after the initial period. Prior experience with working on app dev projects related to the Video Gaming, Casino or other similar industries is required.

Responsibilities:

Using Agile methods to analyze and document business functions and requirements.
Provide insight and expertise in Gaming industry practices and standards.
Consult with management and personnel to identify, define and document business functions, needs and objectives, operational procedures, problems, input and output requirements.
Analyze the integration of business functions with technology.
Perform and/or facilitate business and technical analysis in support of project design and implementation.
Identify and document relevant business processes contained in legacy application data systems.
Build out and support the management and prioritization of the product backlog.
Create user stories based on requirements and capture technical requirements as needed.
Participate in all necessary team meetings and design sessions in accordance with Scrum ceremonies.

Required Skills:

Prior experience working as an IT Business Analysis including eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business functions, processes, and requirements.
Prior experience working on projects running in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.), writing user stories, and maintaining a healthy product backlog.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Experience creating requirements documentation for complex projects.
Prior experience in the Gaming/Gambling industry (Video Poker, Casino, Riverboat, etc.)

Preferred Skills/

Qualifications:

Experience identifying and documenting business processes contained in legacy application data systems.
Business Analysis certifications such as PMI-PBA or CBAP is preferred but not required.
Experience in quality assurance testing of application software.
Experience in creating operating procedures, user guides, and/or training material.

Education:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.