Role: Business Analyst

Location: Los Angeles, CA (Onsite from Day 1 – Only Locals)

Job Type: Contract

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have at least 5 years of experience in providing services as listed below:
• Work with all stakeholders including business customers, vendors, and internal resources to facilitate team communication and achieve the mission.
• Gathers, analyzes, defines, and documents requirements and communicates them to the technical & non-technical audience.
• Transforms information from elicitation sessions into business requirements and functional requirements, use cases, user stories, and software requirements specifications documents. Uses standard templates and simple, unambiguous, and concise natural language.
• Ability to analyze and decompose problem statements, distilling these into clearly defined requirements.
• Validate data and test applications for business requirements, functionality, and usability.
• Responsible for carrying out complex analysis of datasets and conducting appropriate data validation Responsible for gathering and validating datasets across multiple data sources.
• Provide information on analytic results to business and functional leaders using visualizations to communicate data and metrics.
• Assist with user acceptance testing.
• Ability to work on multiple projects in parallel and work constructively as part of a team or teams to coordinate with developers and business users to analyze system characteristics.
• Project coordination: Assist in project planning, scheduling, and monitoring activities. Track project milestones, deliverables, and dependencies to ensure timely completion and adherence to project scope.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define and document customer business functions and processes.
• Consult with users and stakeholders to identify, define, and document business needs and objectives, current operational procedures, challenges, input and output requirements, and levels of systems access.
• Develop requirements based on Client’s business and project needs.
• Assist with project coordination tasks. Maintain and monitor project sprint plans, project schedules and other related documentation coordinate tasks among the team members organize and participate in stakeholder meetings track and follow-up on important actions and decisions.
• Act as a liaison between departmental end-users, technical analysts, information technology analysts, consultants, and other governmental organizations in the analysis, testing and maintenance of web application systems to ensure optimal operational performance.
• Analyze the feasibility of, and develop requirements for, new systems and enhancements to existing systems ensures the system design fits the needs of the users.
• Track and fully document changes for functional and business specifications.
• Perform quality assurance review of deliverables for both, internal and external delivery.
• Identify opportunities for improving business processes, assists in the preparation of proposals to develop new systems and or extensions for current systems.
• Perform change impact analysis to assess the potential implications of changes and documents business rules, functions, and requirements.
• Be able to create screen mockups and visualizations for review with client and stakeholders.
• Ability to create training manuals, FAQs, and web site static contents.
• Proficient in all business documentation including SRS, Use cases, concept documents and other impact analysis artifacts.
• Distill and present results to all levels of organization in clear, business language.
• Provide support for a variety of meetings, conferences, and program activities.