Business Analyst 3 - IT

OWN YOUR FUTURE with Assurant Health, a national health insurance company in business for more than 114 years. Join us at our Milwaukee, WI office for a career that offers you an opportunity to use your talent to it's fullest potential.

The Business Analyst III contributes broad experience and a high level of expertise in business processes and system functionality. On project assignments of high risk and complexity, the position leads and directs activities such as requirement definition, research, analysis, testing, training, and documentation.

Responsibilities:

Acts as the customer / IT liaison during analysis, requirements definition and design activities; maintains an understanding of a broad range of business processes and related systems; provides strategic advice business processes and solutions; works with business stakeholders to define business requirements and with technical staff to develop solution alternatives.

Participates in the Project Management process; understands and applies the system development methodology; contributes to project deliverables including vision documents, status reports, and project, risk, resource and financial plans; communicates status, business impacts and system changes to team members, business partners, sponsors, management and other interested parties; coordinates issues, tracking and resolution.

Manages testing activities for maintenance and project assignments; provides guidance for testing strategies, scope and scenarios; reviews and provides advise for testing-related estimates of effort, duration and resource utilization; prepares and reviews test plans; identifies testing risks and contributes to the overall management of project and risk plans; coordinates, manages and participate in complex testing efforts.

Provides general customer and IT support for assigned business applications; deals with the most complex system problem logs; works with business and technical staff to perform effective root-cause analysis and resolution; leads implementation support activities; directs and participates in training support activities such as documentations authoring and preparation, training preparation and delivery, or follow-up; gathers, compiles, interprets and summarizes systems and business process changes; maintains system support tables.

Requirements:

Requires 5 to 7 years of progressive business analyst experience in an Information Technology environment. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in a technical or business discipline, or equivalent work experience. Rational TestManager Software experience.Rational ClearQuest Software experience.Experience in leading a test team.Developing master test plans:  Securing and coordinating test resources, schedule, tasks, budget  Managing the test process  Managing defectsExperience in training and mentoring the test process and tools.Exposure to project management methodology
In exchange for your talents, we offer outstanding benefits, including immediate medical/dental insurance, 401K, vacation buy program, and business casual dress. Qualified candidates are invited to post their resume online at:
www.assuranthealth.com