Top Skills' Details ~ Business Analyst

• 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst
• Requirements gathering / User Stories / JIRA / Solid Documentation
• Financial services experience preferred

Description:

• This position is for a Business Analyst who will act as the primary interface with business partners, solution architects, and cross-organizational technology teams.
• The Analyst will analyze current processes and systems, assessing the business model and its integration with technology.
• The Analyst is responsible for working with stakeholders to understand their needs, analyze problems, and capture their requirements, and then working closely with the Development Team to refine the requirement into specifications that can be executed by the team.
• The Analyst will be part of an Agile Scrum team, collaborating with the Product Owner to evaluate the Features, write effective user stories, document business rules; and with the Developers to review technical design, identify enablers and dependencies.
• Must have excellent analytical skills and at least 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst, working closely with business partners to elicit requirements, document process flows, identify risks and mitigation and participate in definition of strategies for the technical solution.
• Experience documenting detailed functional and technical requirements for business requirements.
• Ability to communicate and work with developers to ensure that acceptance criteria for the user stories are understood and applied.
• Provides support to UAT and SIT testers to clarify requirements and determine whether a defect is a new requirement, or truly a defect.
• Ability to communicate and work with Testers to ensure that test plans and scripts satisfy the requirements.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, and ability to facilitate discussions.
• Self-motivated and requires minimal supervision.
• Good problem solving and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to analyze existing capabilities and identify gaps and opportunities.
• Working knowledge of agile tools such as JIRA.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, feature writing, story grooming and sprint planning

Skills:
Business analysis, Agile, Requirements gathering, User stories, Jira, Data analysis, Reporting
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
Requirements gathering / User Stories / JIRA / Solid Documentation
Exposure to Futures and Options / Cleared OTC / FX Prime brokerage / Risk / Middle office functionalities would be a major plus
Experience Level:
Expert Level
About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.