Business Analyst

An electric utility client is looking for a Business Analyst who will translate approved backlog items into clear, traceable, and testable requirements. Position: Business Analyst Location: Rosemead, CA 91770 – Hybrid: Onsite Tu & W Pay Rate: $35.40/hr. on W2 Duration: 12 months or longer Schedule: 1stshift, M-F, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Position Summary The Business Analyst, Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA), translates approved backlog items into clear, traceable, and testable requirements. This role analyzes business processes, rules, data, system interactions, reporting needs, exceptions, and dependencies to develop requirement packages and end-to-end test scenarios that support implementation and validation of approved capabilities. Primary Accountability Owns the detailed definition, documentation, traceability, and requirements-based validation of approved IVA backlog items. Responsibilities Requirements Analysis & Documentation Review approved backlog items, BRDs, business policies, procedures, and system documentation. Facilitate discovery sessions with business, operations, product, technology, analytics, QA, vendors, and SMEs. Translate product direction into functional and nonfunctional requirements. Identify gaps, conflicts, missing rules, exceptions, and unclear requirements. Escalate unresolved business or product decisions to Product Management. Ensure requirements are specific, measurable, traceable, and testable. Business Rules & Decision Logic Document business rules, eligibility criteria, validations, calculations, sequencing, and outcomes. Define behavior for missing, invalid, unavailable, or inconsistent information. Maintain a traceable business rules repository. Validate rules with business owners and elevate unresolved policy decisions. Journey & Scenario Analysis Expand highlevel customer journeys into detailed scenarios. Document successful, alternate, exception, failure, escalation, and recovery paths. Define customer inputs, system responses, handoff requirements, and expected outcomes. Analyze customer friction points, interruptions, authentication issues, and system failures. Present findings and recommendations to Product Management. Data, Reporting & Integration Requirements Define data sources, elements, mappings, validations, transformations, and reporting needs. Document relationships between customer inputs, data, system responses, and reporting events. Establish event tracking, metrics, calculations, filters, and reporting logic. Identify dataquality issues and their business impact. Document integration requirements, including inputs, outputs, validations, error handling, dependencies, and interface requirements. Maintain traceability across requirements, integrations, testing, and defects. Acceptance Criteria & Testing Develop detailed, testable acceptance criteria covering success, failure, boundary, alternate, and exception scenarios. Ensure criteria address data, integration, reporting, authorization, transfer, and operational requirements. Create functional, integration, endto-end, regression, negative, and exception-based test scenarios. Define test data, preconditions, execution steps, expected results, and evidence requirements. Support test execution, validation, defect management, retesting, and closure activities. Provide requirementsbased readiness assessments to Product Management. Defect Management & Root Cause Analysis Analyze defects to determine whether issues stem from requirements, business rules, data, integrations, configuration, platform behavior, reporting, prompts, or implementation. Route issues to appropriate owners and update documentation when approved corrections are made. Identify recurring gaps and recommend process improvements. Production Validation Validate released capabilities against approved requirements. Review production results, transcripts, defects, and operational findings. Identify deviations between requirements and actual behavior. Create defects or requirement updates as needed and provide findings to Product Management. Maintain traceability between production findings, requirements, and backlog items. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree 3-5 years of business-analysis experience supporting complex technology, customer-experience, contact-center, or digital initiatives. Experience with IVR, IVA, chatbots, conversational AI, contact centers, or digital self-service. Working understanding of APIs, relational data, system interfaces, and upstream and downstream dependencies. Experience in data analysis and reporting. Familiarity with SQL or comparable methods for validating relational data. Strong experience eliciting and documenting functional and non-functional requirements. Demonstrated experience documenting business rules, decision logic, process flows, and exception scenarios. Experience developing testable acceptance criteria. Experience producing data mappings, interface requirements, or integration documentation. Experience developing functional, integration, endto-end, negative, and regression test scenarios. Experience maintaining requirement traceability. Strong defect-documentation and analytical problem-solving skills. Ability to work across multiple journeys or assignments as program priorities change. Strong facilitation and written communication skills. Preferred Qualifications Experience testing voice or conversational customer experiences. Experience defining analytics events, calculations, dashboards, or operational reports. Experience with customer authentication and enterprise integrations. Experience working with distributed teams or implementation vendors. Experience in a regulated or high-volume customer-service environment About Our Client Our client is one of the largest electric utilities and a longtime leader in renewable energy and energy efficiency in the United States providing electricity for much of Southern California. Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. #J-18808-Ljbffr APR Consulting, Inc