BUSINESS ANALYST

We specialize in Staffing, Consulting, Software Development, and Training along with IT services to small to medium size companies. AG's primary objective is to help companies maximize their IT resources and meet the ever-changing IT needs and challenges.

In addition, AG offers enterprise resource planning and enterprise application integration, supply-chain management, e-commerce solutions, and B2B public exchanges and B2B process integration solutions. Our company provides application analysis, design, development and programming, software engineering, systems development, testing, integration, and implementation, and management consulting services to various clients - including governmental agencies and private companies - throughout the United States and India.

We provide these services in multiple computing environments and use technologies such as client/server architecture, object-oriented programming languages and tools, distributed database management systems, state-of-the-art networking, and communications infrastructures. Our honest and realistic approach to recruiting dictates that AG does not entice or lure engineers from their employers. We represent only high caliber technical professionals who have committed to making a change required by career.

Top 3 Skills

1. Business Analysis

2. User stories

3. Systems analysis

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Elicit requirements from business units and other stakeholders
• Write requirements that are simple, clear, and concise
• Decompose high level requirements into functional requirements working with the development team
• Facilitate and lead in prioritization of requirements
• Facilitation of feasibility discussions with Development/Testing/Architecture teams
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills to communicate information effectively to customers and staff

Additional Information

Required skills Overall:

• SCRUM MASTER/BA or PM/BA Candidates need not apply
• 5+ years’ demonstrable experience in a formal SDLC environment (Dev, Test, Prod).
• Completed at least 3 full lifecycle (define, build, test, accept, deploy and support) development projects of medium to high level of complexity in which candidate led, represented and was accountable for all project’s business requirements responsibilities.
• Comfortable in environments where there is domain knowledge ambiguity.
• Self-reliant and able to independently acquire the appropriate level of domain knowledge in order to deliver actionable requirement artifacts.

Methodologies:

• 5-8 years’ combined experience in waterfall and agile environments.
• Fluent in agile concepts and terminology (SCRUM, Kanban, epics, story boards, etc.).

Business / Systems Analysis:

• 5-8 years demonstrable experience in requirements gathering and management in use case and story formats.
• 5-8 years’ demonstrable in business process mapping (“As-Is” and “To-Be”).
• 3-5 years’ experience with web application screen mock-up and requirements.
• 3+ years’ demonstrable experience with SQL and data analysis in MS SQL Server or Oracle environments.
• Knowledgeable of Object Oriented (OO) Development Concepts

Testing

• 3+ years’ experience in application testing - test case and test script creation; defect documentation and management.

Tools & Technologies

• Fluent in MS Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and MS Visio.
• Experience using tools such as SQL server management studio, TOAD, and SQLPlus.
• 3+ years’ experience using requirements management repository tools (e.g. Rally Dev, Jira, DOORS)

Desired (optional) skills

• Experience with B2B e-Commerce
• Experience in Healthcare vertical
• Experience working in .NET Environments
• Experience with mock-up / prototyping tools (e.g. Axure).

Work Environment

• Team environment; 4. NET, 1 QA, 1 BA

• Good comm skills are a big priority
• Duration: Long Term