Business Analyst (Partially Remote)

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Job description

This position allows for 2 days per week remote / work from home.

The primary responsibility of this role is to identify, define, and manage requirements for internal and external projects and software development. This individual should have a strong aptitude for conducting research on systems and technologies. Experience with requirements management and familiarity with software development methodology is required. The candidate will work with business/end users, executive management, programmers, and quality assurance staff.
Duties and Responsibilities

• Works with project management team to organize and prioritize deliverables; plan and implement project schedules and negotiate on product functionalities.
• Gather requirements
• Should be an excellent communicator between stakeholders and Developers.
• Examine existing IT systems and business models; analyze business improvement processes;
• Provide successful collaboration within a team environment to promote product quality, innovation, development, create and optimize customized solutions.
• Ability to build proof of concept via prototypes and launch new initiatives and implement various stages in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) models like Waterfall, Agile (Scrum).
• Process BSB's, BRD's, and FRD's including customer information, and a variety of other forms of documents by resolving inconsistencies and reviewing information for errors using standard analysis processes.
• Plan, supervise and document testing schedule with CIO for complete system functionalities;
• Entering information into specific files or forms from recorded material, hand written pages or figures contained in printed files.
• Conduct in-depth evaluations of prospective projects for feasibility, identify risks and estimate costs.
• Serve as a liaison between Operations and IT to assist and gather business requirements needed for system modifications, enhancement and implementations
• Create and maintain issue logs, meeting minutes, meeting schedules, project summaries and updates.
• Meet with project team regularly to review project deliverables and deadlines
• Execute test plans and write UAT test cases

• Collaborate closely with developers to implement the requirements, provide necessary guidance to testers during QA process
• Be responsible for the knowledge transfer of business requirements to the application/database developers and project managers;
• Perform daily, weekly and monthly reviews and analyses of current processes using operational metrics and reports

Requirements:

• 2+ years of Business Analysis experience
• Understanding and documenting business processes and workflows and their relationships to current and future projects and software solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills and fluent in English.
• Ability to conduct advanced level of research on program efficiency, policy, software requirements provide and represent professionalism in job.
• Should have worked in Agile development model and be familiar with Agile process.
• Hands on experience with JIRA and Confluence and other tools respectively
• Perform a variety of testing procedures on assigned products, analyzes test results and correct any defects
• Strong understanding of software design, development and implementation process.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $75,000.00 - $95,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location