Senior Business Analyst with hands on UML experience to support SaaS (FINEOS) product for our insurance client

Senior Business Analyst with hands on UML experience to support SaaS (FINEOS) product for our insurance client

This role requires you to be onsite one day/week in Edmonton

Must Haves:

• 6+ years' experience as a Business Analyst
• Strong facilitation skills that will be utilized in conducting user workshops to define requirements
• Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to recognize symptoms, diagnose causes and identify alternative solutions.
• Experience in drawing out requirements from the business teams and effectively communicate those requirements to the technical teams.
• Must have proficiency in Unified Modeling Language (UML), including but not limited to activity diagrams, use cases, sequence diagrams etc.
• Experience in the Insurance industry with strong life claims knowledge and FINEOS product
• Completion of a software development technical institute or university diploma/degree program
• Experience with Delivery management tools like ALM, ServiceNow and Jira
• Experience with Microsoft Suite such as Office, Microsoft Project, Visio, and SQL Navigator.

Nice to Have:

• Experience in Agile/Scrum/Kanban environments
• Working knowledge of/experience with Project Management body of knowledge and software development methodologies

Responsibilities:

• Consult with clients to gather and effectively capture complex business requirements in the form of use cases at an advanced level.
• Document requirements using use case modeling concepts.
• Liaise with the technical staff to provide the business perspective during system analysis and design phases.
• Work with the project manager to plan the day-to-day management of the business analysis, design, development and testing tasks. Assists in enforcement of project deadlines and schedules.
• Participate in the test plan development process by working collaboratively to develop test cases, scenarios, and specifications that assess whether the system satisfies all the business requirements.
• Actively participate in project review meetings providing status updates to the business sponsor and project manager.
• Identify any potential schedule or project problems and provide solutions to alleviate any problems.
• Support the development of the user training documentation for business users to ensure effective and efficient use of the new systems.
• Coordinate the efforts of other business analysts.
• Prepare ad hoc reports