Business Analyst

Company Description

Artech is the 10th Largest IT Staffing Company in the US, according to Staffing Industry Analysts' 2012 annual report. Artech provides technical expertise to fill gaps in clients' immediate skill-sets availability, deliver emerging technology skill-sets, refresh existing skill base, allow for flexibility in project planning and execution phases, and provide budgeting/financial flexibility by offering contingent labor as a variable cost.

Job Description

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Basic qualifications:

· Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Business Administration or related discipline.

· Track record in successful IT solution design and project delivery.

· Track record in delivering business impact through process and IT enabled solutions.

· Excellent relationship management, influencing and communication skills at executive level.

· Minimum of 3-6 years of experience as a Business Analyst or related position, writing requirements in an information technology department or with a software company.

· Knowledge of all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle, with an emphasis on requirements elicitation, requirements and design modeling, documentation and communication.

· Ability to decompose high-level concepts into details and distinguish solution ideas from requirements.

· Must have a working knowledge of project management lifecycle and techniques with project planning skills.

· Understands quality assurance methodologies and the principles of software design.

· Experience writing requirements/use cases and acceptance criteria on an enterprise software development team.

· Experience with domain modeling or business concept modeling such as UML.

· Experience developing and executing test plans/scripts.

Preferred qualifications:

· Experience in major global IT organization.

· Deep process knowledge of respective functional areas – governance, risk and compliance/audit & assurance/information protection and privacy.

· Experience in SAP Governance Risk and Compliance solutions.

· Business Analysis Certification (CBAP – Certified Business Analysis Professional).

Key Responsibilities:

Facilitate requirements elaboration of user stories with team members, including process- and data-modeling activities in order to capture and reflect the voice of the customer in business requirements.
Coordinate requirements walk-through and sign-offs, verifying with user representatives/stakeholders that use cases and process models accurately portray specific business needs.
Contribute to project plans.
Work with stakeholders to understand, prioritize and estimate development resources required for new features in addition to enhancement and bug fix work efforts.
Ensure the product development deliverables from the team conforms to customer and business requirements, while maintaining a solid architecture.
Provide product demonstrations and overviews with business units.
Evaluate potential software solutions, including off-the-shelf and open source components, and the system architecture to ensure that they meet business requirements.
Collaborate with programmers and testers on software test plans.
Facilitate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities to ensure high-quality software deliverables.
Respond to feedback from internal customers who participate in UAT and/or early adopter programs.
Partner with internal customers to identify and provide content for internal training.
Provide weekly updates for all assigned requests and projects.
Keep projects and initiatives in motion and delivered on time.
Ensure all documents are up to date in the project site.

Qualifications

A Successful Candidate will execute job responsibilities while demonstrating the following: 
Ability to handle heavy workload, facilitate the activities of dynamic workgroups, and multi-task in a fast paced environment under tight deadlines. 
Ability to analyze and critically evaluate gathered information to resolve conflicts, anticipate issues, and make priority decisions. 
Communicate effectively with all team members, project sponsors and stakeholders both technical and non-technical. 
Ability to explain technical issues to non-technical people attempting to meet the user’s needs and ensuring team collaboration High degree of self-motivation to learn new methodologies/technologies that will enhance job performance.

Additional Information

If you are interested, Please contact

Shobha Mishra

973 967 3440

shobha.mishra(at)artechinfo.com