Complete Description:
**local candidates strongly preferred
***personal interview strongly preferred
***this is a 6 month contract with possible extension
Business Analyst consultant with 4 to 6 years of experience in business requirement gathering using interviews, meetings/workshops, business process analysis, use case scenarios, gap analysis, questionnaires and prototyping techniques.
Years of Experience:
Business Analyst consultant with 4 to 6 years of experience in business requirement gathering using interviews, meetings/workshops, business process analysis, use case scenarios, gap analysis, questionnaires and prototyping techniques.
Job Description:
This position will work with users and a project manager to develop requirements in response to business requests for systems enhancements, modifications, and newly identified business initiatives; evaluates alternative strategies and recommends viable solutions that are compatible with current technologies and systems; develops requirements document; interacts and provides direction to developers doing work assigned to projects; provides assistance to users on how to use data; proactively identifies potential problems and issues by analyzing system reports and other available data; develops methods for improving system processes; develops and presents training to inform staff of system changes and enhancements; designs test solutions; plans, coordinates and documents system testing; actively participates in unit testing of the applications; maintains documentation and records for assigned projects; participates in production problem resolution and makes suggestions for process improvement.
Specific Tasks:
• Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs.
• Critically evaluates information gathered from multiple sources and reconciles potential conflicts.
• Communicate and collaborate with customers to analyze information, business problem and automation needs.
• Translate the business requirements into functional design document including detailed business requirement, process flow diagrams, work flow diagrams, use-case scenarios, GUI/wireframes, prototyping and interface designs.
• Analyze the current system and create the gap analysis to implement the modules.
• Create deliverables and traceability matrix.
• Work with various stakeholders in planning, developing, implementing, training and supporting the modules.
• Maintain the requirement repository and requirement versioning.
• Assist in creating preliminary project plan, test plan and test cases.
• Liaison between the business users, technology teams and support teams.
Required Experience and Skills:
• Business Analyst consultant with 4 to 6 years of experience in business requirement gathering using interviews, meetings/workshops, business process analysis, use case scenarios, gap analysis, questionnaires and prototyping techniques.
• 3+ years in requirement analysis to reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• 3+ years in translating business requirements into detailed requirement document, process flow diagrams, workflow diagrams, use-case scenarios, wireframes, prototyping and interface designs.
• 3+ years in creating deliverables, traceability matrix, preliminary project plan, maintaining requirement repository and versioning.
• 3+ years in directly working and communicating with business users, technical team and multiple stakeholders on information distribution and collaboration.
• 3+ years in software development life cycle (SDLC) and Agile based development methodology.
• 3+ years in MS Visio, MS Office and MS Project.
• Strong analytical and product management skills required including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Extensive prior work experience on financial applications is required.
• Candidate should be an excellent team player and independently able to analyze and research to provide resolution for business problem.
• An excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers and subject matter experts is required.
Desired Additional Skills:
• 2+ years in creating UML based use-cases.
• Experience in financial applications specifically in the areas of budgeting and contracting highly preferred.
Skills:
Experience in business requirement gathering using interviews, meetings, business process analysis, use case scenarios, gap analysis techniques.
Required 5 Years
Reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
Required 3 Years
Translating business requirements into detailed requirement, process flow and workflow diagrams, use-case scenarios, wireframes and prototyping.
Required 3 Years
Creating deliverables, traceability matrix, preliminary project plan items, maintaining requirement repository and versioning.
Required 3 Years
Directly working and communicating with business users, technical team and multiple stakeholders on information distribution and collaboration.
Required 3 Years
Software development life cycle (SDLC) and Agile based development methodology.
Required 3 Years
MS Visio, MS Office and MS Project.
Required 3 Years
Creating and understanding of UML based use-cases.
Desired 2 Years
Financial applications specifically in the areas of budgeting and contracting.
Desired 2 Years
Requires exellent communication skills
Required