Senior Business Systems Analyst - Retail Merchandising Applications

For immediate consideration, please connect with me on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpotapenko and then email your resume, work authorization status, current location, availability, and compensation expectations directly to denis.potapenko@systemone.com - make sure to include the exact job title and job location in your email message.

*** no C2C with 3^rd parties - W2 candidates only

*** not looking for any junior profiles - need at least 8-10 years of full time experience after graduation

*** The list of the details that we need from you is below the job description


Position for a Senior Business Systems Analyst - Retail Merchandising Applications :

- The role involves analyzing functional and technical requirements, validating complex data flows, and ensuring the accuracy of financial, forecasting, and planning metrics for a system that integrates with SQL Server, Databricks, Azure services, Snowflake, and multiple internal and external web services.
- Elicit, analyze, challenge, and refine business requirements while ensuring technical solutions fully align with business objectives.
- Bridge business stakeholders and development teams, serving as a quality gate from requirement definition through testing and delivery.
- Partner with stakeholders to gather, document, and validate functional and non-functional requirements.
- Facilitate workshops and working sessions to understand business processes, goals, and pain points.
- Translate business needs into clear, testable, and traceable requirements (user stories, functional specs, process flows).
- Proactively identify gaps, inconsistencies, and undefined scenarios, challenge assumptions, edge cases, and business rules constructively.
- Recommend improvements based on best practices, and ensure requirements are complete before development begins.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure shared understanding of requirements.
- Review technical designs and implemented solutions for alignment with business expectations.
- Challenge developers when delivered functionality misses requirements or edge cases.
- Serve as a quality gate between business expectations and technical delivery.
- Define, document, and review comprehensive test scenarios and cases based on requirements.
- Participate in test planning and execution, including functional testing and UAT.
- Perform hands-on validation of system functionality; identify, document, and help resolve defects.
- Act as a trusted advisor to business and technical teams; communicate complex ideas clearly to non-technical audiences.
- Provide regular updates on requirement status, risks, and gaps, and facilitate cross-functional alignment.

Required Qualifications :

- Business Analyst and QA/testing experience.
- Experience working on projects for retailers / retail companies, specifically merchandising, retail pricing, or supply chain systems.
- Hands-on test case creation, execution, and validation.
- Strong documentation skills (BRDs, FRDs, user stories, test cases).
- Ability to challenge constructively and influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Experience with data-intensive solutions; proficiency with SQL and large data structures.

For immediate consideration, please connect with me on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpotapenko and then email your resume, work authorization status, current location, availability, and compensation expectations directly to denis.potapenko@systemone.com - make sure to include the exact job title and job location in your email message.

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