Business Analyst II

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Job description

At National Vision, we believe everyone deserves to see their best to live their best. We help people by making quality eye care and eyewear more affordable and accessible.

National Vision, Inc. (NVI) is one of the largest optical retailers in the United States. We offer an innovative culture where training is a priority, hard work is praised, and career growth is a reality.

The Business Analyst II will be responsible for learning and understanding the needs of the business and serving as a liaison between business and information technology teams. Working directly with senior leadership, this person will be responsible for helping to lead projects from initial concept to final implementation and managing ongoing support

What Would You Do? The Specifics

• Elicits requirements for large projects and translates requirements into specifications to be used by the software development teams.
• Leads team meetings and agile ceremonies such as Sprint Planning and Retros.
• Works with the Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Managers, and development teams to plan work for upcoming sprints.
• Works directly with the Quality Assurance team to ensure they understand how a new feature or enhancement is supposed to function and provide support if questions arise.
• Facilitates business process re-engineering by analyzing, organizing, and documenting requirements for changes to e-commerce websites/internal systems.
• Facilitates group discussions and activities with the development team and project members.
• Documents and charts out existing business and system process flows.
• Performs software testing as needed to verify new features work as expected or bugs have been corrected.
• Participates in software release planning.
• Reviews the outstanding backlog with the business and works with the development teams to ensure bugs are fixed in a timely manner.
• Organizes software demonstrations for key stakeholders and documents feedback and suggestions for improvement.
• Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards

Qualifications

• Four year college degree, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of analyst experience working with software development teams
• Knowledge and experience of basic database concepts.
• Knowledge and experience with mockup tools & flowcharting. Experience in an Agile development environment including backlog management, backlog grooming, work prioritization, sprint planning, release planning and support.
• Experience working with healthcare environment / products.
• Knowledge and experience of basic database concepts. Experience with e-commerce websites.
• SQL query writing experience
• Experience with requirements management systems such as Team Foundation Server (TFS), project management systems such as Asana, spreadsheets, flowcharting tools such as LucidChart

What are the benefits?

National Vision offers a competitive benefits package including Health and Dental Insurance, 401k with company match, Flex Spending Account, Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Personal Time Off, and much more. Please see our website to learn more.

NVI is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $59,300.00 - $88,900.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus pay

COVID-19 considerations:
Although this is a WFH position, we do anticipate the candidate to live in or near the Columbus, OH area or the Atlanta, GA area.

Education:

• Associate (Preferred)

Experience:

• Business Analyst: 2 years (Required)
• Flowcharting Tools: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: One location