Concord IT Systems

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Job Description Business Analyst/Consultant Location : Wisconsin Client : state of Wisconsin. Project Details: This position should be able to work independently while taking direction from project leads. A demonstrated ability to take initiative in learning business processes and existing application functionality is a plus. A high degree of professionalism and high-quality customer service are expected. This individual should have strong attention to detail, collaborative mindset, and commitment to teamwork. This individual will work closely with the project manager, lead business analyst, and development team in addition to project stakeholders to gather and translate business requirements into functional requirements, as well as related test cases. This position will work closely with an existing project team on enhancing and supporting an existing application. This position is for an experienced business analyst with strong hands-on testing experience to support multi-year, multi-phase project with testing, requirements elicitation, and analysis. This individual will work closely with the project manager, lead business analyst, and development team in addition to project stakeholders to gather and translate business requirements into functional requirements, as well as related test cases. This position will conduct quality assurance (QA) testing as releases are moved to testing environments. They will serve as a liaison between the business user acceptance testers to report bugs back to the technical team. A high degree of professionalism and high-quality customer service are expected. The individual in this position will: • Create, maintain, and update project documentation to ensure all requirements and decisions are accurately captured. • Have strong, holistic knowledge of the overall requirements process, business and technical. • Create test scenarios, test plans, test reports, and track the life cycle of defects. • Ensure developed solutions perform according to documented user requirements. • Be familiar with industry standard automation testing suites, including regression testing. • Demonstrate knowledge and prior use of requirements tools and how they interact with applications used for management of bugs, issues, testing, design and development. • Remain adaptable and flexible when working with multiple clients with varying degrees of knowledge and ability/availability to participate. • Identify and propose improvements, corrections, or mitigation strategies for risks and opportunities, independently or collaboratively with the team. • Develop and/or maintain user manuals, ad hoc training, and reference materials as requested by program area stakeholders. • Be familiar with SQL and data load strategies. • Bring experience with the full software development lifecycle and related project management activities. • Demonstrate familiarity with the Business Analyst Book of Knowledge (BABOK) or have certifications through the International Institute of Business Analysis. This position should be able to work independently while taking direction from project leads. A demonstrated ability to take initiative in learning business processes and existing application functionality is a plus. This individual should have strong attention to detail, collaborative mindset, and commitment to teamwork. Top desired skills required for the position: • Demonstrated experience in developing test cases and plans to ensure applications function according to user requirements. • Attention to detail for quality assurance testing and supporting testing efforts throughout the software development lifecycle. • Proven ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, with strong facilitation skills for any type of project group. • Experience working on an application development team within a complex organization to collect, document, and disseminate business requirements utilizing industry standard techniques.