Business Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

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candidate.)

This position is for an experienced business analyst with strong hands-on testing experience to

support multi-year, multi-phase project with testing, requirements elicitation, and analysis. This

individual will work closely with the project manager, lead business analyst, and development

team in addition to project stakeholders to gather and translate business requirements into

functional requirements, as well as related test cases.

This position will conduct quality assurance (QA) testing as releases are moved to testing

environments. They will serve as a liaison between the business user acceptance testers to report

bugs back to the technical team. A high degree of professionalism and high-quality customer

service are expected.

The individual in this position will :

Create, maintain, and update project documentation to ensure all requirements and

decisions are accurately captured.

Have strong, holistic knowledge of the overall requirements process, business and

technical.

Create test scenarios, test plans, test reports, and track the life cycle of defects.

Ensure developed solutions perform according to documented user requirements.

Be familiar with industry standard automation testing suites, including regression testing.

Demonstrate knowledge and prior use of requirements tools and how they interact with

applications used for management of bugs, issues, testing, design and development.

Remain adaptable and flexible when working with multiple clients with varying degrees

of knowledge and ability / availability to participate.

Identify and propose improvements, corrections, or mitigation strategies for risks and

opportunities, independently or collaboratively with the team.

Develop and / or maintain user manuals, ad hoc training, and reference materials as

requested by program area stakeholders.

Be familiar with SQL and data load strategies.

Bring experience with the full software development lifecycle and related project

management activities.

Demonstrate familiarity with the Business Analyst Book of Knowledge (BABOK) or have

certifications through the International Institute of Business Analysis.

This position should be able to work independently while taking direction from project leads. A

demonstrated ability to take initiative in learning business processes and existing application

functionality is a plus. This individual should have strong attention to detail, collaborative

mindset, and commitment to teamwork.

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Qualification

Requirements elicitation and analysis.

Knowledge of system development life cycle and key

deliverables

Promote understanding and cooperation within and

between stakeholder groups; facilitate effective meetings

with these groups.

Strong verbal communications skills with ability to clearly

present information and ideas to groups.

Translating requirements for web application development

for both front and backend development technologies.

Develop and implement quality assurance processes and

procedures.

Develop and implement test plans, procedures, and test

cases for unit, system, and user acceptance plans.

Familiarity with managing change throughout the SDLC and

hands-on experience with scope management.

Experience in technical writing and documentation.

Business process flow diagraming and process

improvement.

Analytical and problem-solving skills; experience with

problem diagnosis, task planning, and time management

Desired Experience

10 years

10 years

10 years

10 years

8 years

8 years

8 years

8 years

8 years

8 years

5 years

• Experience with QA methodologies and testing techniques;

familiarity with test-driven design principles and regression

testing.

Experience with SQL, TFS / GitHub, Jira, including the ability

to query a relational database.

Post-production application support.

5 years

5 years

5 years

Requirements

Project details : This position should be able to work independently while taking direction from project leads. A demonstrated ability to take initiative in learning business processes and existing application functionality is a plus. A high degree of professionalism and high-quality customer service are expected. This individual should have strong attention to detail, collaborative mindset, and commitment to teamwork. This individual will work closely with the project manager, lead business analyst, and development team in addition to project stakeholders to gather and translate business requirements into functional requirements, as well as related test cases. This position will work closely with an existing project team on enhancing and supporting an existing application.

Top 3-4 desired skills required for the position :

Demonstrated experience in developing test cases and plans to ensure applications

function according to user requirements.

Attention to detail for quality assurance testing and supporting testing efforts

throughout the software development lifecycle.

Proven ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, with

strong facilitation skills for any type of project group.

Experience working on an application development team within a complex organization

to collect, document, and disseminate business requirements utilizing industry standard

techniques.