Description
Sr. Business Analyst
Columbia, SC
1 year+ contract
Serves as a liaison between the business community and the IT organization in order to provide technical solutions to meet user needs. Possesses expertise in the business unit(s) they support, as well as an understanding of the IT organization's systems and capabilities. Analyzes business partner's operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions. Assists in the business process redesign and documentation as needed for new technology. Translates high level business requirements into functional specifications for the IT organization and manages changes to such specifications. Educates the IT organization on the direction of the business. Negotiates agreements and commitments by facilitating communication between business unit(s) and IT from initial requirements to final implementation. Possesses an understanding of technological trends and uses this knowledge to bring solutions to business units supported to enhance the enterprise's competitive edge. May make recommendations for buy versus build decision.
Responsibilities:
- Take initiative in performance, working with groups to effectively accomplish project objectives and engage in the following activities. As a Business Analyst, you will work closely with the Product Owner and development team members by:
- Refining operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats.
- Supplying new user stories or use cases by analysing requirements; constructing workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications.
- Improve the system(s) by studying current practices and suggesting required modifications.
- Recommends controls by identifying problems; writing improved procedures.
- Maintaining system protocols by writing and updating procedures.
- Providing references for users by writing and maintaining user documentation; providing input to operations help desk support, user training needs, etc.
- Preparing technical reports by collecting, analysing, and summarizing information and trends.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Perform tasks efficiently and work together with team to ensure project success.
- As a Software Development Tester you will be responsible for all aspects of software testing. Working within the development team you will:
- Plan, design, and author effective test cases.
- Evaluate and test new or modified software programs and software development procedures used to verify that programs function according to user requirements and conform to established guidelines.
- Learn and use enterprise tools for test management, execution and reporting to enhance the overall software testing process.
- Develop automated tests for your test cases and integrate your automations into test suites when determined as an effective and efficient means of executing tests.
- Review computer operating logs to identify program processing errors; utilize tools to interrogate databases and data stores to determine proper application behavior.
- Observes computer monitoring/performance metrics during program test to detect error codes or interruption of program; record and report errors using enterprise tools available to the project.
- Identifies differences between established standards and user applications and suggests modifications to conform to standards.
- Conduct compatibility tests with vendor-provided programs; test implementations/integrations with third party platforms.
- Monitors program performance after implementation to prevent reoccurrence of program operating problems and ensure efficiency of operation.
- Write documentation to describe program evaluation, testing, and correction.
Required Qualifications:
- 6 years of Business Analysis experience
- Minimum 1-2 years of experience with economic services programs. Understand program, policy, practice and business operational functions within state and local government economic services.
- Five to seven years of experience in IT, with a minimum of two years in business process design.
- Proven ability to translate technical practices and terminology to business owners and stakeholders and to translate business requirements to technical teams
- Must be able to multi-task and meet deadlines in a fast-paced start-up environment.
- Attention to detail and strong analytical and conceptual skills; ability to create original concepts and theories for a variety of projects.
- Bachelor's degree in business, information systems or related discipline, or equivalent and extensive related project experience; M.B.A. or MPA preferred.
- Business Analysis experience to include data flow diagrams, requirements specifications, use case scenarios, and acceptance testing.
- Agile Business Rules Development (ARBD)
- Ability to write, edit, and prepare graphic presentations of technical information for both technical and business personnel
- Mapping business process flow
- Translate complex business requirements into technical requirements
- MS Project, Visio, SQL Queries
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with Agile software development is a plus.
- Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2013
Environment/Tools:
- Visual Studio 2015
- Legacy Mainframe applications
- MS SQL Server 2014 R2
- TFS (Team Foundation Server)
- MS Project