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Business Analyst/Functional Analyst with SQL Skills BACKFILL ROLE
Hybrid (TUE, WED Onsite) in Charlotte NC / Open to remote with quarterly travel for PI planning
1 year contract w/ potential to extend Contract
Must Have:
SQL, Confluence, REST API, Agile, User Stories, Process Flow Diagrams
Client Recent Update:
"Looking for profiles that align closely with the hands-on integrations experience we’re looking for, combined with strong analyst skills. Most candidates appear to be either purely business/data analysts OR over-qualified with very high-level, verbose profiles that go beyond the scope of the role.
Ideally, We prefer mid-level analyst (4 – 7 years) who has experience in systems integrations, SQL, hands-on testing experience and working in Agile environments, works independently and contributes confidently"
This position will be supporting a sector of the client focused on unattended retail solutions for clients and consumers across the US. The role will be responsible for providing system analysis, configuration, QA and escalated support for Enterprise level applications.
Responsibilities:
- Work directly with business team members, third party technology vendors, developers, and user community to identify business needs and interpret them as application requirements
- Draft requirements and specifications documentation, complete to signoff and validate deliverables to specifications.
- Function as primary liaison between business and developers to ensure understanding of documented system requirements.
- Ensure standards are maintained related to documents and deliverables.
- Write and execute functional test scripts and coordinate with other analysts for system integration testing.
- Evaluate system deliverables to ensure they are free of defects and meet the quality standards of the department.
- Coordinate activities simultaneously for multiple projects
- Learn a very complex business and facilitate projects and decisions across many disparate user groups.
Qualifications -
- Bachelor s degree required.
- 4+ years of experience in functional/Business analysis role
- Experience with SQL (Microsoft SQL Server) BASIC SQL MANDATORY.
- On time development of user stories, application requirements, and/or process flow diagrams
- Use of various requirements elicitation techniques, such as end user interviews, job shadowing, brainstorming, business process analysis and process flow documentation, facilitation across teams
- The ability to work independently and in a team environment
- Creative problem solving skills to help identify, communicate and resolve systems issues to maximize the benefit of IT systems investments
- Managing conflicting priorities and gaining consensus across multiple user groups
- Committed and enthusiastic approach to supporting business customers and end users.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- General understanding of application architecture and technology
Special Skills and/or Training Desired:
- Experience with SQL(Microsoft SQL Server) BASIC SQL MANDATORY.
- Experience working in an Agile / Scrum environment
- Formal training or certification in Business Analysis, group facilitation, or project management
- Experience with data analysis. This is a plus.
- Experience using Confluence
- Knowledge on REST API s.
Job expectation Notes:
Gathering details and sending over to external team
Communicate w/ external SAP team, gather details for integrating Must have strong comm to work with cross functional teams
Strong knowledge on SQL
Understand the data, what you're sending, fields, columns
Data Reporting
Document requirements -
Write user stories with Azure DevOps
Lead meetings, ask questions get answers and work independently on requirements
ADO- nice to have Functional analyst
Team working on integrations project integrating business systems with S4
Team of 12 members, dev, QA, 1 analyst currently
Middle of project, will have to hit the ground running with getting requirements to dev team Writing requirements, understand requirements - basic
Need to have technical skills to understand SQL
Basic understanding what data is, what API is, what integration project is
Need to convert requirements to field mapping for dev team is what they need this time and what was lacking in last analyst Having exp w/business teams but good to ask questions, collect answers from business
Not just copying and pasting Knowledge on scrum agile methodology is great
Agile ceremonies understanding
Grooming sessions - Lay out requirements to team Being a bridge between the business team and technical team