iZeal, Inc is currently seeking an Sr. Business Analyst/Data Analyst for our client's requirement. The salary depends on experience.
Job Title: Sr. Business Analyst/Data Analyst
Location: Boston, MA. (Hybrid)
Primary Responsibilities:
- Partner with business and technical groups and actively engage in strategic initiatives requiring complex analytic models and solutions.
- Independently lead requirement gathering sessions to help design and implement a business intelligence system that would ultimately ingest large data per business and data cleansing rules and will enable business to extract business intelligence as defined in the business model.
- Execute business analysis tasks and strategies to achieve overall project business analysis goals, in line with current EEA IT BA methodology and responsibilities.
- Facilitate successful delivery of project requirements to meet project specifications.
- Work with business users to research, understand, and document and business processes and requirements using common tools such as JIRA, VISIO, SharePoint, MS Office Suite.
- Must have thorough knowledge of product life cycle management concepts.
- Coordinate and interact with designers and developers on data quality and data management.
- Collaborate with stakeholders on data maintenance and planning processes to ensure data integrity and security.
- Experience handling large volumes of data and knowledge of various data analytics tools.
- Knowledge of Power BI or any other data visualization tool is a must.
- Support implementation of new data analytics tools.
- Using agile methodology, create and maintain business requirements documentation.
- Create clear, organized user stories. Document detailed system specifications.
- Collaborate with UI/UX designer to develop UI specifications.
- Perform software QA through Development, Test and Production release phases.
- Create test cases during the development process.
- Work with development team to analyze bugs and errors found.
- Document test results for development team and application stake holders.
- Perform other duties related to software delivery as needed, including training end users.
Required:
- BS/MS or a minimum 4-year degree in a related field.
- 8+ years of relevant hands-on experience working in software development as a business analyst.
- Must be highly organized with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and great attention to detail.
- Proven skills in breaking down and optimizing complex business processes.
- Proven experience leading and documenting requirements-gathering sessions and developing user stories.
- Strong working knowledge of software development, Waterfall and Agile (Scrum, Kanban) methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to prepare User Stories, Process Flows, BRDs, FRDs, Use Cases and Data Mapping documents.
- Must be able to communicate with non-technical (business) and technical (development team) audiences.
- Certified Business Analyst Professional or Certified Scrum Master is preferred but not required.
- Experience with Jira is preferred. Experience with Smartsheet is a plus.
- Some background in environmental issues, energy, or government experience preferred but not required.
Desired Skills
- Must have exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Must be a quick and enthusiastic learner.
- Effective negotiator with the ability to successfully balance business needs with IT time and resource constraints and arrive at mutually acceptable outcomes.
- Comfort working in a fluid environment where visions and requirements may change.
- Must be able to prepare acceptance test plans, test cases and QA processes and work directly with end-users to ensure that application functionality meets requirements.
- Must be able to direct technical staff with a collaborative, hands-on approach.
- Applies a proven customer-first approach when working with others.
-->Educational Qualification: Minimum Bachelor's in Computer Science & Engineering or Equivalent Degree.
Charitha Ch || IT Recruiter iZeal ,
Inc. 46090 Lake center plaza, Suite#100, Sterling, VA - 20165.