Business Analyst

Business Analyst Contract To Hire

Contract Duration: 6+ months Hourly Rate: $75/hr to $80/hr

Work Location: Montvale, NJ Onsite, Remote or Hybrid (please include details): Mostly remote but prefers local for occasional team meetings in the office. Maybe 1-2x/month

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Product Managers and SMEs to define and understand capability vision and roadmap, define and document requirements and/or processes.
• Plan and manage the business analysis approach for the project and ensure the consistent application of the BA process and related methodologies to deliver artifacts.
• Elicit, analyze, and document business, stakeholder, and software requirements for technology capabilities.
• Provide guidance on utilization of effective Business Analysis techniques, template usage and development, and technical subject matter.
• Maintain and encourage compliance with project specific standards, processes, and tools for Requirements Definition and Management while ensuring traceability for impact and coverage analysis.
• Senior Business Analyst will also be responsible for tracing the requirements during implementation to ensure that the developed system is consistent and in scope with the determined system requirements.
• Act as the lead BA and provide guidance to other Client and ensure their deliverables are met per time and artifacts standards.

Duties - % of Time

• Work with Stakeholders to gather requirements and document User Stories using Global standard devops tool. Work on sprints/releases scope prioritization working with stakeholders. Collaborate with UX team for design of wireframes - 40%
• Provide guidance / Lead other Client in the team - 10%
• Work with developers to explain them requirements and ensure that Development delivery meets the requirements - 20%
• Support QA, UAT and Production go live / hypercare - 20%
• Work on review and prioritization of defects raised during QA and UAT Review - 10%

Qualifications:

• Autonomous worker who can participate effectively in a multi-disciplinary team
• 6-8 years of hands on Business Analysis experience in a complex regulated environment
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university or foreign equivalent in computer science or related discipline
• Skillful in requirements elicitation, analysis, and management for medium to large initiatives while interacting with multiple stakeholders in a matrix organization
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, proficient at communicating/interacting professionally with diverse groups, clients, executives, managers, and subject matter experts
• Proficient with industry-standard, structured business analysis techniques, and practices
• Professional designation such as CBAP, PMP, Six Sigma or comparable methodologies strongly encouraged

Strong experience with Microsoft tools such as Word, Excel, Project, Visio SharePoint, Pow