IT Business Analyst Job Description

In IT projects, the business need is mostly the procurement or development of IT solutions.
Either the business needs to replace the existing system or implement a new one.
The IT Business Analyst represents the Business Stakeholders to the IT Team and vice versa.
They help translate the business requirements for the IT development team and collaborate with all stakeholders to implement the solution and achieve business value.

Here are some of the role of IT Business Analyst:

1. Help Business Identify Problem or Opportunity and define business need.
2. Ensure product requirements are aligned with business objectives.
3. Identify, analyze and manage stakeholders
4. Create or support IT Project Manager in writing the Business Case Document
5. Support creation of Project Charter
6. Collaborate with Project Manager in making estimates, schedules and planning
7. Elicit and analyze requirements
8. Document requirements in Business Requirement Document and/or Software Requirement Specification
9. Collaborate with Stakeholders to define the Acceptance Criteria
10. Create and Maintain Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
11. Communicate requirement status to the Stakeholders
12. Monitor solution assumptions, constraints, and risk. 
13. Obtain Solution Acceptance for Release / Sign-Off 
14. Manage changes in the requirements
15. Perform impact analysis when there is a change request
16. Evaluate acceptance results and address defects

Note: The following are not the main responsibility of an IT Business Analyst, but It depends on the organization or the agreement with the team if these can be included especially for Agile projects:

1. Project-related requirements. The IT BA responsibility is the Product and not the Project.
2. Quality Requirements. This is the responsibility of QA.
3. Perform Testing and
4. Perform UAT

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