Business Systems Analyst Job in Malvern 19355, Pennsylvania US

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Business System Analyst

Industry:  Investment Management

                   

This position will include approximately 70-80% BSA duties and 20-30% QA duties

Responsibilities:

Candidate will provide senior level requirements and Business Architecture services to support business and IT project teams.  To provide senior level Systems Test services support to business and IT project teams to define business strategy and select 3rd party products.

·         Uses a variety of information gathering techniques (e.g., interviews, facilitated sessions) to determine system requirements and technology needs. 

·         Leads requirements gathering sessions simultaneously for multiple projects independently, and under minimal supervision for larger projects of greater complexity. 

·         Creates business process maps and data flow diagrams. 

·         Ensures project addresses both business and IT needs (such as security). 

·         Elicits identification of business assumptions and risks. 

·         Communicates technical issues at appropriate level for audience.

·         Translates business needs into system and software functional and non-functional requirements, and writes requirements documents. 

·         Reuses requirements to the highest degree feasible. Translates functional requirements and technical specifications into system test scenarios and writes test strategy. 

·         Analyzes project documentation written by other team members (includes the functional requirements and unit and integration test plans) to ensure the requirements are testable and the full range of system aspects are being tested. 

·         Reviews technical and user documentation to validate procedures.

Qualifications:

·         3 -5+ years experience in Financial Industry

·         3+ years QA experience preferred

·         Minimum of five to ten years BSA, systems; one year technical writing experience.

·         Software development life cycle methodology, Agile preferred

·         Basic understanding of client business functions, technology needs, tools, and other applications that interface with client systems.  Helps to elicit the business criteria used to evaluate IT vendor products.

·         Has a solid understanding and complies with IT policies and procedures, especially those for quality and productivity standards that enable the team to meet established client service levels. 

·         Has a solid understanding and complies with Information Security policies and procedures.  Assists with verification of deliverables meet Information Security requirements.

·         Strong written and oral communication skills, including interviewing and facilitation skills.

·         Senior knowledge of the following BSA practices and concepts:

·         Prototyping and use case scenarios

·         Benefits and risks of automating and changing processes

·         Quality assurance methodology and Inspections

·         Requirements analysis techniques (data and behavior models, process flows, usage models)

·         Thorough functional requirements and documentation deliverables

·         Senior knowledge of the following systems tester practices and concepts:

·         Requirements testability

·         Intermediate knowledge of one or more IT platforms:  

·         IBM mainframe  preferred

·         Client/server

·         OS/390

·         UNIX

Duration:  12 Month+

Location:  Malvern, PA 19355

For more information please contact:

Angelo Melchiorre, The Judge Group, amelchiorre@judge.com , 888-228-7162 ext: 2292