Business Analyst

Business Analyst with QA Experience – Candidate Needs to Be Local

The Business Analyst is responsible for collecting and documenting requirements to build new applications or enhance existing applications. The Analyst meets with stakeholders to understand business processes and their needs, translates them into business/functional/data requirement documents, creates workflow diagrams, communicates requirements and data flow to technical staff. They work with developers to get the requirements implemented, test the application, conduct UAT, and provide post-deployment on-site support. The Business Analyst position has a dual role; they will be testing applications as well.

Essential functions include:

• Proficient in scheduling meetings to gather, analyze, and document business and software requirements from stakeholders.
• Analyze business processes and translate business needs into clear, actionable user stories, use cases, functional specifications, and test cases.
• Communicate requirements clearly to developers, testers, and stakeholders.
• Proficient in creating various diagrams: process flows, state, activity, sequence, swim lanes, wireframes, etc.
• Act as a liaison between business users and IT teams.
• Proficient in doing walkthroughs and user acceptance testing.
• Proficient in creating training documents, training users, and providing support after a release.
• Collaborate with developers and QA to ensure the solution aligns with business goals.
• Maintains professional composure while communicating clearly with stakeholders, developers, and testers.
• Ability to test applications both functional testing and regression testing.
• Ability to convert requirements into test cases.

Additionally, the candidate should have:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to work with subject matter experts to address their needs and communicate with software developers, business analysts, and testers succinctly.
• Demonstrated experience working on teams of varying sizes on complex projects and demanding timelines.
• Demonstrated ability to work alone on projects from start to finish.
• Must have technical skills: SharePoint Online (Office 365), Microsoft Teams, GitLab or other Git repositories, JIRA, Balsamiq or any other design tools, Visio.