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Job Title: Business Analyst

Duration: 12 Months

Location: San Francisco, CA

Looking for candidates willing to work on W2

Position Summary

We are looking for a senior level IT Business Analyst who is 1) a quick learner, 2) thorough, 3) organized, and 4) flexible in adapting to a fast paced and dynamic environment. The Business Analyst is mainly responsible for gathering and analyzing business requirements, developing functional requirements, functional design documents, and creating test models and test scripts. In addition, the analyst is responsible for analyzing project defects to determine business/technical impacts and providing recommendations on fixing the defects.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience

• Minimum 6 years of experience in analyzing, designing and developing functional requirements and application functional design

• Ability to collaborate with cross functional teams to maintain efficiency, consistency and achieve successful implementation of system enhancements

• Excellent verbal and written communication

Desired:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in similar or related job functions (Information Technology or Business) that could be substituted by an advanced degree

• Experience in SAP ECC, SAP MII and HP Quality Center

• Proficiency in “as-is” process definition, gap analysis and “to be” business process definition

• Working knowledge of relational databases, including data querying is a plus

• Ability to design as an individual but within the framework of the team and product

• Advanced knowledge of MS Office suite of applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint

Responsibilities

Intake:

Work with business organizations to provide input regarding enhancement feasibility

Using business process knowledge, proactively look for opportunities for system enhancements

Evaluate and provide input to “business concept requirements”

Prepare preliminary business process design for concept estimation purposes

Project:

Gather, analyze and document detailed functional and non-functional requirements

Provide technical expertise and assistance in designing, testing and developing applications

Perform feasibility analysis, design and provide recommendations on the alternative solutions, project strategy and deliverable prioritization, as well as system alternatives or enhancements to current systems

Prepare final functional requirement and functional design documentation in accordance with ITM

Conduct walkthrough of deliverables with business and obtain approval/signoff

Provide SME support to developers and testers

Work with business to document and analyze project change controls

Support stabilization of deployed code

O&M:

Troubleshoot potential system issues to determine if there is a defect

Analyze production defects, identify business and system impacts and quantify problems

Contribute to defect troubleshooting and solution design

Assist business and technical teams with ad-hoc requests

Provide functional expertise to clients for resolving business issues

Thanks & Regards’

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Vikram Bhalla | Team Recruitment | Mindlance, Inc. | W: 732 504 6695