Job ID: 2011-42383 Job Title: Business Analyst Location: Boston, MA. Start Date: 2/22/2011 End Date: 3/22/2011 Max Hourly Rate: USD $60.00
Client currently seeks a Business Analyst to join our team in Boston, MA. All the skills mentioned below are required. Need a Senior candidate for this position Position Functions or Responsibilities: • Experience use cases • Experience w/ BI tools prefer COGNOS • Education background good • Requirements analysis for COTS products • Knowledge of Unified process • Facilitating workshops to develop business requirements. Must ensure that requirements adequately support the functional components of the business. Upon completion, will work with the business to verify proposed changes to the system and obtain sign-off. • Coordinating user acceptance testing and provide guidance for users through the UAT process. • Supporting verifications, quality assurance and development activities, as well as performing data mining and report generation. • Analyzing business requests for feasibility and collaborating with key business personnel based upon processes, procedures and workflow to make recommendations based upon findings. • Conducting detailed analysis of current and future needs. • Coordination with staff subject matter experts, technical staff, and internal and external stakeholders. • Seeking, obtaining, monitoring and analyzing feedback from the business users to improve systems, process and reporting. • Gathering information needed for business reporting requests and establishing the business requirements needed to properly extract data. • Responsible for completing requirements documentation such as, requirement management plan, glossary of terms, requirements attributes, stakeholder requests, use case package, vision document and storyboard. • Developing strong business relationships and act as a liaison between business user community and Technology team. • Communicating and coordinating with sponsors and customer representatives to ensure program/project needs are met with the solution. • Working with project managers and vendors that are different functional requirements are described, understood, and met. Desired Qualifications: Subject matter expert in the teaching, learning, and assessment applications with experience in learning management systems Technical/ software development background Demonstrated experience with Unified Process method of development Experience working on projects delivered in an educational environment Experience implementing systems using standard data exchange protocols Experience documenting use cases Experience creating requirements traceability matrices Experience relating requirements gathering to usability concepts such as personas Understanding of stakeholders in educational policy in Massachusetts Must be attentive to detail. Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment Strong time management, communicative, and interpersonal skills Experience with Rational Tools Required Qualifications: Business Analysis - Requirements Gathering Minimum 5 Years Other Required Qualifications: Five years' experience developing Business Requirements Documents and Functional specifications. Minimum 5 years of requirements gathering and business analysis experience in a technology environment Minimum of 2 years supervisory experience Proven track record working on large-scale projects to diverse stakeholders Excellent communication, organization, interpersonal and writing skills Demonstrated ability to work independently and take initiative Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams on large scale projects Experience gathering requirements on data integration and business intelligence projects Experience facilitating requirements analysis sessions with large and diverse stakeholder groups Experience using UML representation and use cases When applying please mention the JOB ID NUMBER. Please send your updated Resume with your references to [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Business Objects User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/businessobjects?hl=en.
