Junior Business Analyst Jobs

Title: Business Analyst

Location: Owings Mills, MD (Onsite)

Duration: 11 months Contract

The Business Analyst will have the responsibility to ensure that the business's need for changes to processes, policies and/or information systems are identified, understood, defined, documented and acted upon by eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating, specifying and verifying the needs of business or user. The incumbent assists in the gathering and synthesizing of business requirements for low complexity software, systems, processes and/or services and translates them into testing specifications ensuring the business objectives are met. As the functional expert, the incumbent serves as the conduit between the business area and the technical or software development team through which requirements flow.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as a liaison between the internal business community and the IT organization in order to provide quality solutions to meet user needs.
• Develop and execute Facets tests to identify Facets problems and their root causes.
• Test Facets system modifications to prepare for implementation.
• Interpret business needs and issues by gathering, analyzing, documenting and validating the Business area’s user and technical (functional/non-functional) requirements
• Supports several simple to moderately complex testing requirements.
• Document Facets and application defects using JIRA and report defects to Facets developers and product owners.
• Translates business requirements into testing specifications, manages changes to such specifications.
• Participates in the review of Facets design and leads the team in supporting the overall quality of various Facets systems and applications.
• Responsible for executing Facets processing application test plans, test scenarios, defines and solves for test data needs for testing in order to ensure the outgoing Facets products meet and exceed quality standards.
• Develops an understanding of the business processes being tested.

Requirements:

Education

This position requires a bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science or Business or equivalent relevant work experience in business analysis, systems analysis and/or testing and 1-3 years of related work experience in business analysis, systems analysis or testing.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Has demonstrated experience in JIRA testing, defect management tool.
• Has basic understanding of AGILE methodologies.
• Has demonstrated experience in Facets claims processing/testing functions.