Remote Business Analyst

Summary

The Sr. Business Analyst is a 6-month remote or onsite position based in Troy, MI. The role involves requirements gathering and analysis, system design, managing technical resources, and utilizing various software development methodologies. The candidate should have strong communication skills, analytical problem-solving abilities, excellent organizational skills, and a good understanding of business processes. They must be able to prioritize tasks and adapt to changes. Preferred qualifications include experience with specific tools like JIRA, Confluence, Selenium, Loadrunner.

Requirements

• Agile or agile-variant software development methodologies
• Understanding of testing concepts through the software development lifecycle (unit, performance, regression) and capability to write test cases and test plans
• Proven strength in interpreting customer business needs and translating them into application and operational requirements
• Strong experience with incident management, leading both on and off-hours ad hoc support teams
• Strong experience with various software development methodologies such as Agile, SCRUM, Waterfall, etc
• Excellent communicator - Ability to communicate verbally and in technical writing to all levels of the organization in a proactive, contextually appropriate manner
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Execute root cause analysis of systems and data issues
• Proven ability to prioritize work by dividing time, attention and effort between assigned workload and on-going support tasks

Responsibilities

• Requirements gathering and analysis / break down of large requests into user stories and/or component parts
• System and system integration design based on requirements
• Man management of adjunct technical resources, including vendor deliverables

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven ability to easily adapt to changes in processes, procedures and priorities
• Proven understanding of web service APIs and XML messaging systems
• Experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modelling/mapping, and data modelling
• Strong experience building, writing and executing test cases (using technologies such as JIRA, Confluence, Selenium, Loadrunner)