Business Analyst - New York, United States - Ariel Partners

Description

Job Description

We are looking for a Business Analyst /Quality Analyst with experience and understanding in developing business, functional, and non-functional requirements, including creating the Requirements Traceability Matrix along with gathering and validating requirements through workshops and meetings.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, clients, and project teams to understand Enforcement and Neighborhood Services business processes, goals, and objectives and elicit, document, and validate business requirements.
• Facilitate workshops, meetings, and interviews to gather and validate requirements.
• Ensure all requirements are documented, prioritized, and communicated to the development team.
• Continuously monitor and manage changes to requirements using Jira.
• Take ownership of creating comprehensive test plans and test cases to ensure thorough testing of software solutions.
• Execute system testing and collaborate with development teams to identify and resolve defects.
• Support the testing phase by participating in user acceptance testing.
• Provide ongoing support to stakeholders and address any issues or concerns related to requirements.
• Actively contribute to improving and standardizing the business analysis processes within the organization.
• Collection and documentation of system requirements; coordinating and facilitating Joint Application Development, Detail Design Sessions, use of specialized software for tracking system changes, maintaining documentation, organizing testing efforts; creation of training and standard operating procedures materials.
• Business Process Re-engineering; Business Architecture Modeling; Business Analysis; Work in cooperation with Project Management; Liaison with Business Partners program areas.
• Plan, coordinate and facilitate session reviews of existing system and potential new system and/or system requirements.
• Document business process requirements and process diagram flows, review business policy and procedure documentation, create/update documentation as needed and review with business partner and IT administrator resources.
• Performs Business Process Reengineering including assessment of existing business processes determination of future state, gap analysis and assessment, and detailed system design activities needed to support the business systems.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of enterprise data objects and attributes.
• Work with business stakeholders to define functional data needs for the creation of data marts for business intelligence tools.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• 8+ years of experience in business analysis, operations analysis, and/or process design and/or application testing.
• Experience developing business, functional, and non-functional requirements
• Experience developing Requirements Traceability Matrix
• Experience developing Training and Standard Operating Procedures materials
• Experience working to facilitate collaboration across executive, business, and technical resources
• Excellent people skills and the ability to provide leadership in a collaborative, team driven approach
• Participate in peer reviews and inspections of requirements doc Enter, manage, and report on user stories in Jira, aligned to the Sprint cadence.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, should be able to discuss business needs to both technical and non-technical staff
• Experience with testing efforts to include test plan, test scenarios and organizing users to facilitate effective tests.
• Experience with Agile methodology
• Experience with PM methodologies and/or managing & tracking a project against a project plan
• Independent thinking and decision-making skills
• Capable of managing multiple tasks in a fast paced, high-volume environment and the ability to adapt plans to unexpected changes

If you are interested in getting more information about this opportunity, please contact Irina Rozenberg at your earliest convenience.

At Ariel Partners, we solve the most difficult problems that inhibit technology from enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our vision is to be recognized by our stakeholders as an elite provider of IT solutions, so when they have their biggest challenges, we are on their short list. We are looking for team members who share our values of: Integrity to do the right thing even when it hurts; Commitment to the long-term success and happiness of our customers, our people, and our partners; Courage to take on difficult challenges, accept new ideas, and accept incremental failure; and the constant pursuit of Excellence. Ariel Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer in accordance with federal, state, and local laws.