Role: Business Analyst Contract 6 months Local to Oakland (3 days onsite required)
Description: The Business Analyst is responsible for reviewing computer-based solutions used by the Client and advises Business Stakeholders, Project Managers and Business Analysts on ways to change or enhance solutions to meet business requirements for projects.

Manager expectation:

SQL is a must. Not to write but understand. Gather Business requirements

Write meeting minutes Write functional requirements from technical design documents

Essential Functions:

• Develop detailed functional and system specifications based on business requirements, business process maps and use cases defined by Business Analyst.
• Work with the business to identify functional and performance expectations.
• Validate all implemented functions perform according to specifications.
• Promote and verify quality in all releases.
• Smoke testing of test and production environments.
• Assist in the preparation and execution of User Acceptance Testing.
• Triage and document reported defects.
• Participate in prototyping solutions to provide business users with a preliminary evaluation and/or user interface experience.
• Evaluate changes for downstream systems.
• Participate in prototyping solutions to provide the business unit a preliminary evaluation and/or user interface experience.
• Work with the business to identify minimum performance expectations and service levels.
• Prioritize and track all issues to resolution.
• Escalate issues to project leads as appropriate.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with business users and IT team.
• Meet with Business Analysts, business owners and users to gather functional and system requirements.
• Work on multiple projects independently in support of organizational objectives.
• Comply with the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodology.

Must have requirements:

• 5 years of experience as a Business Analyst.
• Experience with functional applications testing.
• Experience with web applications and UI design.
• Understanding of SDLC and various methodology.
• SQL language skills.
• Advanced knowledge of the MS Office Suite products (including Excel, Outlook, Visio, and Word).
• Enjoys solving problems and has strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Project management skills.
• Understanding of various web-based technologies.