Vichara is a Financial Services focused products and services firm headquartered in NY and building systems for some of the largest i-banks and hedge funds in the world.

Daily Tasks
Daily Tasks include but not limited to the following:
1. Work closely with the Portfolio BA Team, project manager, ITS BAS manager, technical team members and other
project stakeholders to provide guidance throughout the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
2. Work as liaison to stakeholders and Subject Matter Experts to elicit, analyze, communicate, validate and verify the
requirements for changes to current business processes, policies and information systems and for the development
of new business processes, policies and information systems.
3. Create as-is and to-be business process flows to ensure that the implemented business process and supporting
software meets agency needs, as well as provide an effective and efficient means of referral and tracking
4. Conduct requirements workshops and JAD sessions with agency subject matter experts as one of the many
techniques to be used to elicit requirements.
5. Create business requirements documents, context diagrams, business requirements document (BRD), system
“as-is” and “to be” states, system specifications, use cases and workflow diagrams, report and screen mockups, swim
lane diagrams, and prototypes.
6. Provide development team with clearly articulated artifacts, and ensure development team understanding.
7. Ensure that artifacts required by ITS governance process and Secure Systems Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)
are created and support the project scope.
8. Manage requirements through the life of the contract using a requirements management plan and traceability to
ensure coverage between the source of requirements and their test case(s) it will be tested by.

The business analyst will work closely with the agency, ITS Project Management Office-
Business Analysis, and ITS Busines Application Servcies teams to familiarize with the
current state of business applications and identify and document agency direction and
future state to inform modernization and other pending efforts. Analyzes an organization or
business domain (real or hypothetical) and documents its business or processes or systems, assessing
the business model or its integration with technology with distinct deliverables to a solution.
Position Minimum Qualifications:
• 84 Months experience performing requirements elicitation. Researching and understanding the stakeholder’s
business needs using a variety of analysis techniques and converting those into verified and validated
functional and non-functional requirements for development.
• 84 Months experience creating and maintaining software development artifacts for communication of
requirements, including context diagrams, textual use cases, swim lane diagrams, report specifications,
wireframes, user interface specifications, and non-functional requirements specifications.
• 84 Months experience facilitating requirement workshops, JAD sessions and structured walkthroughs,
practicing effective communication to ensure requirements are understood, conveyed, and met.
• 72 Months experience creating test plans/cases, managing defects with development teams, and working with
users on User Acceptance Testing.
• 72 Months experience managing requirements throughout the Requirements Management Lifecycle, including
creation and execution of a Requirements Management Plan, Requirements Traceability, establishing
requirements baselines and managing requirements change control
• 36 Months experience working with applications in the health care industry.
• CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) certification by the International Institute of Business
Analysis IIBA

Compensation - $50/h 1099 or C2C

Benefits:

• Extended health care
• Dental care
• Life insurance