Business Analyst Jobs

6 month ongoing contract, potential conversion (W2)

Must haves:

• Agile/Waterfall
• Scrum
• Data experience
• SQL
• 4+ years in Business Analyst role

Job Duties:

• User story creation and backlog grooming in partnership with product owner.
• Prior experience working as a BA in Agile delivery team is required. Building User Stories according to the requirements and making sure that they meet the acceptance criteria.
• Serve as the conduit between the business partners and the technical team through triage, research, requirements, testing, and support.
• Learn the processes and tools needed to perform the role effectively.
• Collaborate with technology teams, business teams, vendors and subject matter experts to perform daily activities.
• Organizing the Product Backlog based on the prioritization provided by the Product Owner.
• Document business, system processes and requirements when applicable.
• Creation and facilitation of testing strategy, test plans and test scripts.
• Plan and facilitate requirement gathering workshops using a variety of techniques such as Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions, interviewing, brainstorming, job shadowing, user stories.
• Cross-training to learn applications across the assigned Business Unit application portfolio.
• Serve as a business advisor whose primary role is to support the Product Owner by analyzing, facilitating dialogue, and getting the correct information to the product owner.
• Accountable for managing and delivering support requests, enhancements and projects for assigned Business Unit / Products. This includes the planning, troubleshooting, facilitation of problem solving, and communicating of a variety of requests, incidents, and problems independently within multiple areas.
• The Analyst provides customers with a high quality and consistent level of proactive and professional IT service, in an effort to maintain, enhance and implement technology solutions that enable business processes and operations. The analyst will work to create and maintain positive customer relationships that bolster open communication, reliability, trust, and service loyalty.
• Perform on-call responsibilities including nights, holidays and weekends.
• Elicit, understand, interpret and represent functional and nonfunctional requirements to include business and stakeholder requirements, data and information requirements, data integration, metadata, data quality, service levels and performance.
• Elicitation, organization, translation, analysis and prioritization of both technical and business level functional requirements
• Lead in identifying the business impact of system issues and facilitate communication as appropriate to stakeholders.
• Lead assigned initiatives. Communicate status, issues or risks to management and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with external and internal customers and vendors to analyze business needs and work with teams on solutions.
• Engage and communicate with senior management as appropriate.