Senior Business Analyst, Contract -Direct Client Need

Outcomes and Activities:

• Gather requirements from business users and record them clearly in a format useful to developers and test analyst.
• Work collaboratively with PMO, Product, Stakeholders and IT team member to achieve objectives.
• Maintain application backlog that clearly describes tasks. Keep the backlog clean.
• Partner with developers to achieve great application performance.
• Test new features and code to be sure they meet business requirements.
• Show insight; know your application design & data; offer simple, provide alternative working solutions.
• Analyses the risk and impact to the business, recommends changes.
• Recognizes scope, timeline, and budget risks.
• Apply team coding, documenting and testing standards and recommend process improvement.
• Recognize upstream and downstream impacts; communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Understand the business process your application supports.
• Improve your application and team processes.
• Decrease incidents and increase up-time of your application.
• Monitors the health of the teams, recognizes and act on coaching opportunities to increase team health.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of 8 years; experience in Business Analyst or related role
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Experience documenting user requirements (e.g., maintenance request or SOW)
• Experience with system integration projects and requirements (e.g., APIs, Web Services)
• Familiar with REST interfaces (API request builder, Postman)
• Understanding of basic HTML elements
• QA Testing experience
• Business Process Reengineering experience in Finance Industry
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation
• Experience leading 2+ end-to-end project implementations as a BA
• Basic knowledge of web technology

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with the use of Agile principles and Scrum methodology
• Minimum of 3-year experience supporting a web application as a business/quality/functional analyst
• Ability to write complex database queries (SQL) and study data patterns

• Understanding of Quality Assurance and Agile Testing Principles
• Experience creating/ updating Flow charts and sequence diagrams

• Basic understanding of Java technologies
• Respond promptly and effectively to problems, projects, and tasks
• Be organized, with ability to multi-task and prioritize multiple requests
• Convey complex information in a timely and easily understood way to all levels of the organization
• Demonstrate insight; make recommendations as opportunities arise
• Be self-driven, motivated to help, and able to perform with moderate supervision
• Maintain customer focus; keep the customer’s and company’s best interest in mind
• Work well with abstract concepts. Be analytical. Solve problems