Business Analyst|| Onsite- New York, NY

Title:                  Business Analyst 

Location:          New York, NY. (onsite)

Duration:          6 months

Position Overview:

• Business Analyst staff will help client stakeholders identify a grants and scholarship management solution that will maximize the value delivered by the client-sourced, application development team.
• The business analyst will investigate business systems, elements of the organization structure, and document requirements using industry standard techniques.

Responbilities:

• Analyze existing system documentation and related artifacts to elicit detailed requirements.
• Analyze and understand as-is business processes and systems sufficiently to establish to-be workflows and designs.
• Liaise with relevant stakeholders, including subject matter experts (SMEs), executive teams, managers, program directors, and end users to meet the business needs of the project.
• Conduct requirements gathering, validation, and rationalization processes.
• Collaborate with the Client team on requirements definition to confirm that system requirements align with state and federal standards and strategy.
• Evaluate project timelines and priorities.
• Adhere to internal controls, guidelines, and procedures pertaining to the systems development life cycle.
• Provide guidance to application development resource(s), through product backlogs, user stories, roadmaps, sprint plans, and related artifacts.
• Ensure application development resource(s) understand the features and enhancements that need to be developed and deployed to meet the business needs of the project.
• Support software validation through user acceptance and similar test strategies.
• Develop test scenarios and test cases for system, integration and UAT using requirements, process flows and use cases/user stories.
• Test system functionality and document test result
• Assist with change control and release planning for system bug fixes, enhancements and upgrades
• Participate in data migration planning, analysis, and cleansing, working closely with DBA's, vendor and Client business owners.
• Provide project management support as needed.

Qualifications:

• 5 years experience in performing requirements gathering and business analysis, producing written documentation of requirements; system design and implementation.
• 5 years of requirements elicitation and documentation with participants.
• 3 years working experience performing application testing, developing and executing written test scripts, documenting, tracking, communicating, and reporting defects utilizing testing tools such as Jira, quality center, or rationale.
• 5 years of experience in developing business requirements by translating the needs, expectations, constraints and interfaces into a format understandable to both clients and technologists, using various methods (e.g., brainstorming, document analysis, facilitated meetings, focus groups, interface analysis, interviews, observation, prototyping, requirements workshops, reverse engineering, survey questionnaire by asking the right questions to surface essential requirements information).
• 5 years experience working to establish criteria for evaluation and acceptance of requirements, manage requirements scope, obtains commitment to the requirements from the project participants. Identifies project work and requirements inconsistencies during defect / requirements management and communication.
• 5 years of experience in requirement analysis and validation, analyzes requirements to ensure that they are complete, feasible, realizable and verifiable. Provide the capability to identify key requirements that have a strong influence on cost, schedule, functionality, risk or performance.
• 5 years of experience to analyzes requirements and represent the requirements textually as well as via visual models or graphical form, in order to communicate the requirements effectively to the required audience.
• Preferred: Prior work with New York State