Responsible for completing a thorough analysis of customer business processes and identifying and analyzing business requirements that will potentially be translated into system specifications for applications and automated processes. An IT Business Analyst produces specification documents that define requirements and outline solutions that are used as a communications bridge between the business customer and the groups that will be responsible for designing and developing the technical solution. A person in this position is expected to be familiar with the best practices, procedures and, where appropriate, legal requirements within a particular field (for example, finance, healthcare, insurance, so forth) and have a solid overall understanding of application design, development, and implementation. Other duties may include project management, testing, software quality assurance, data modeling, and/or business process reengineering. |