Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce is looking for a Business Analyst for a short-term contract opportunity in Kansas City, MO.

Summary:
The Business Analyst interacts with IT and business roles to elicit requirements and shape demand into work items for application development teams. The BA will become a subject matter expert on multiple applications supported by the IT group.

Responsibilities:
* Works with developers and business contacts to ensure that requirements and acceptance criteria are captured, documented, and demonstrated throughout the application development life cycle
* Ensures operational acceptance and ongoing evaluation of continuous improvement of applications
* Become deeply familiar with business capabilities, functions, and processes, including roles and tools supporting business
* Lead and/or participate in business process analysis sessions with internal clients to determine requirements
* Elicit and translate business functional, and technical requirements into work items used by application development teams
* Lead requirements refinement sessions to ensure a full understanding of deliverables for the team and stakeholders involved in the application development lifecycle
* Collaborate with quality assurance to ensure testing outcomes align with acceptance criteria and business intent
* Continuously review requirements to ensure that new or modified software conforms to enterprise standards and suggest modifications to conform to said standards as needed
* Interact with Customers performing triage of break fix items to identify appropriate development resource(s) after observing or duplicating errors in test environments and providing this information to the team
* Collaborate with project management on scope management and controls

REQUIREMENTS:
* BS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience in substantially similar position
* 3+ years of Business Analyst experience within a software development organization
* Strong analytical skills are a must
* Must be able to create business process workflows
* Ability to liaise with Development, business owners and internal customers
* Nice to have - working knowledge of SQL queries and data analysis

Best if experienced with:
* Insurance Industry experience
* Insurance industry IT support and security
* Laws, policies, procedures, or governance relevant to cybersecurity

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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