Business Analyst

Job Description

Location:: Ocean City, MD, USA

Visa Status:: Any work visa (Visa sponsorship available)

Salary::$60000

Duration:: Contract

Job Description:

• Job Title : Business Analyst
• Job Type : Contract
• Job Location : Ocean City, MD, USA
• Interface with the business client to understand business needs and requirements, and to help develop and maintain the client relationship.
• Build stakeholder consensus and ensure everyone is on the same page, in agreement, and can visualize the solution being proposed.
• Develop business cases, requirements, use cases, test plans, test strategies, test cases, and operational procedures and plans.
• Document business processes and workflows.
• Craft business cases to evaluate the feasibility of technology initiatives.
• Identify business and functional requirements by working with application end-users, and lead the collection, analysis, documentation, and coordination of those requirements.
• Design and execute test cases for application development and implementation projects.
• Collaborate with IT professionals to determine if solutions currently exist (internally or externally) or whether new solutions are feasible to meet business requirements.
• Leverage rapid prototyping approaches to present as-is/to-be processes/workflows and rough designs of the proposed solution.
• Maintain a comprehensive chronological trail of requirements and agreements and actively contribute to the project change control process. Document and manage issues and actions.
• Provide overall support to ensure the successful design, testing, and implementation of applications that support the business unit, Also, provide support in developing training materials and conducting training.
• Document and manage issues and actions for IT applications and projects.
• Prepare and make presentations using MS PowerPoint and Visio to project stakeholders and management.
• Participate in the evaluation of new products or initiatives to determine the technology support required.
• Evaluate applications and IT environments and analyze gaps between current and desired states.
• Propose recommendations based on industry best practices.

Qualification::

• Experience in defining and implementing technology solutions for a major financial institution.
• Extensive experience as a Business Analyst for a large financial institution.
• Extensive experience with implementing a similar system.
• Extensive experience in gathering business requirements and developing functional specifications with special emphasis on use cases, defining test cases, and providing user training and support.
• Extensive experience with various system development lifecycle methodologies and tailoring the artifacts to those methodologies.