Business System Analyst
Boston, MA
Six month plus contract
Hourly pay rate $ 50/hr on C2C
local candidate, within the northeast.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience working as a conduit between the business and the development team to identify and document requirements. The candidate will need to have strong working experience with creating UI screen mock-ups and presenting them to business partners to get and confirm system requirements, as well as strong communication and organizational skills.
Primary Responsibilities
- Execute business analysis tasks and strategies to achieve overall project business analysis goals, in line with current EEA IT BA methodology and responsibilities
- Work with business users to research, understand, and document business processes
- Work with solutions architects to communicate business needs, understand solution capabilities and constraints, and assist in documenting/communicating solution architect visions to business partners.
- Independently lead requirements-gathering sessions
- Using agile methodology, create and maintain documentation of business requirements, including user stories with full acceptance criteria
- Document detailed system specifications
- Use software design best practices to sketch and wireframe user interface solutions
- Collaborate on user experience planning with peers and team leads
- Analyze user, process, and systems data and create executive analytics dashboards
- Work with project managers to define and execute on analysis deliverables throughout all phases of software delivery
- Contribute to business analysis process maturity and governance programs
- Perform other duties related to software delivery as needed i.e. testing
Qualifications
- 4 year degree in a related field
- 5+ years of relevant hands-on experience
- Experience with software design and development in a test-driven environment
- Strong working knowledge of software development, Waterfall and Agile (Scrum, Kanban) methodologies
- Experience with user interface design patterns and User-Centered Design methods
- Experience working on multiple projects with time sensitive deadlines
- Experience leading requirements-gathering sessions required
- Must be able to communicate with non-technical (business) and technical (development team) audiences
- Certified Scrum Master is preferred but not required
- Experience with Jira is preferred. Experience with smartsheet and/or Power BI is a plus.
- Some background in environmental issues, energy, or government experience preferred but not required
Desired Skills
- Must have exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Must be able to communicate with non-technical (business) AND technical (developer) audiences
- Comfort working in a fluid environment where visions and requirements may change
- Must be highly organized
- Experience with QA/QC
- Must be able to work independently, or direct technical staff with a collaborative, hands-on approach
Regards
Satya