Business analyst

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Role      

Technical Business Analyst - Provide strong analytical insight, requirements/process definition for deployment of a solution for development life cycle and move-to-production systems.   

Mandatory Technical / Functional Skills               

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience in related discipline
  
• 7-10 years of experience working in technical business analysis role, including as-is and to-be process documentation, data mapping.  
  
• 4+ years working under an Agile Methodology
  
• Understanding of TPF development a plus    
• Skill in using JIRA a plus
• Medium-high level of experience using standard MS Office products suite
  
• Skilled at utilizing a variety of elicitation, documentation and analysis techniques
  
• Ability to communicate and interact effectively with internal and external business contacts, including on-site and remote technical and cross-functional teams
  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and ability to think creatively to solve complex problems
  
• Understand technical development processes, activities, and terminology 
• Highly desirable: previous experience in deployment of third-party solutions to replace existing home-grown solutions. 
  

Roles and responsibility              

Identify and document as-is and to-be process and data flows in building and source control of software artifacts, including delivery of executables for test and production release and interface of the new system with existing MTP systems. 

Interact with technical end-users, including TPF and systems developers, loads control, technical system support groups, and a major Travelport customer who will be engaged in this activity as well

Document business and data flows using industry standard analysis tools. Create user stories and detailed functional specifications for modifications requiring development. Interface with technical development team to provide requirements, review solution design/approach, and ensure identified technical gaps are resolved. 

When necessary, be able to articulate and train consumers of tools on new processes and tool usage. Provide ongoing support to users, assist in research, and follow up on user requests

Be an advocate for automation and integration as well as “best practice” solutions for the effort

Able to work effectively with a major customer in developing 21st-century tools for developers to use for source control and move-to-production processes.

Desirable Technical / Functional Skills  

• (Optional)Airline/GDS Experience
  

Additional Information

GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS

DURATION: 12 month

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