Job Title: Business
Analyst
Job ID:
2014-124029
Start Date: 9/1/2014
End Date:
6/30/2015
Location:Augusta,
ME, US
Max Hourly Rate: $40/hr on 1099 All incl
USC or GC Only
Qualifications:
Locals highly preferredPosition Functions/Responsibilities:
As a Business Analyst he/she must apply well-developed interpersonal and analytical skills, knowledge of business processes and information technology, and a deep understanding of business strategy to evaluate problems and opportunities and elicit requirements. Excellent written and oral communication skills at all levels within the organization are essential.
Specifically, it is expected that the BA will be proficient and have demonstrated success in the following areas:
General
- Must demonstrate ability to work well without close supervision
- Great attention to detail,
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization, and across technical and non-technical disciplines
- Strong understanding of business concepts and practices, and an ability to communicate them to both business and technology professionals.
- Strong people skills with eagerness to drive toward customer satisfaction while managing multiple priorities in dynamic environment is essential.
Business analysis
- Must have the well-developed ability to understand the business goals, objectives and strategies of an organization, and apply such understanding to the design and implementation of new business systems aligned with the business vision
- Identify, describe and analyze business problems, and develop practical technology solutions
- Work with business stakeholders to elicit and validate requirements,
- Develop project documents useful to both business stakeholders and supporting IT personnel
- Manage change and issues control processes,
- Must be able to produce detailed system specifications based on the business requirements
- Develop test cases for projects as part of requirement analysis and is responsible for managing user acceptance testing phase of the project
- Develop functional and use case specifications, and coordinate development of prototypes as necessary
Skilled resources with advanced knowledge of Business Analysis preferably with experience in a Java, Oracle, Web application environment.
The successful candidate will critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs, and have experience and expertise in recognized business analysis techniques such as interviews, workshops and surveys to elicit and document business requirements, analyze and model business processes, develop business process improvement strategies, analyze business data, conduct fit-gap analysis, prepare business cases, model databases, create and execute test plans, etc., for the purpose of translating business needs into practical technology solutions. Outstanding written and verbal communication are required to enable collaboration with developers, subject matter experts and customers to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs, and to act as a liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.
Required Skills:
Five years' of experience in Business Analysis - Agile Methodologies
Five years' of experience with requirements elicitation and documentation, process and data analysis, process and data modeling, creating and executing test plans, and functional specifications
Five years' of experience producing system specifications
Two years' of experience as an Analyst in a Java and/or Oracle environment
ArimaaForce LLC
USA & India
resumes@arimaaforcellc.com
