Senior Business Analyst

Qualifications

• Business Analyst- Analyzes an organization or business domain (real or hypothetical) and documents its business or processes or systems, assessing the business model or its integration with technology with distinct deliverables to a solution.                          
• Senior- 60 - 84 Months: Candidate is able to work independently, without assistance and provides guidance to others.  May have an advanced education.
• 60 months experience eliciting business requirements from business customers or system artifacts and maintaining such requirements.
• 60 months experience developing business requirements and process documentation such as use cases, process flows, screen mock-ups, and data dictionaries.
• 60 months experience creating test plans and test cases, executing functional and system tests including regression tests. Ensure appropriate test coverage by mapping system requirements to test cases.
• 60 months identifying and documenting application defects, tracking defects to resolution, and performing retesting as required.
• 60 months of supporting business applications in a help-desk type environment.                             

Day-to-Day tasks       

• Analyze system documentation and system artifacts to develop an understanding of the associated business process.
• Elicit business system requirements using one or more of the following methods: analyze current processes, interview users, conduct group meetings, review/analyze existing documentation or system artifacts.
• Document and analyze ‘as is’ and ‘to be’ business processes.
• Develop or maintain high-level and detailed system requirements in the form of clear business requirements documents, context diagrams, process flow diagrams, data dictionaries, and use cases.
• Develop or maintain test plans and detailed test cases.
• Develop or maintain user acceptance testing plans and help desk support guides.
• Develop detailed functional and system tests from documented system requirements.  Ensure appropriate test coverage by mapping system requirements to test cases. 
• Develop or contribute to the development of regression tests and/or user acceptance tests.
• Execute functional and system tests, including regression tests.  Participate in user acceptance testing.
• Identify and document application defects and track to resolution, performing retesting as required.
• Identify and document deficiencies in system documentation (e.g., missing or ambiguous requirements) identified during the testing process.
• Respond and work-through incident tickets submitted by users of business applications