IO Datasphere, Inc. has been providing project management, software development and IT staff augmentation services to our clients in the Midwest and throughout the U.S. since 1996. We are an approved vendor on contract to provide software development and IT staff augmentation services for the States of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. We also provide these services to businesses, as well as local and county governments, in the Midwest and nationwide.

Our client is looking for a Business Analyst. The business analyst is responsible for ensuring our development teams have complete and accurate business requirements, our business partners have considered their needs vs. their wants in their projects and ensuring quality control by testing web applications, reports etc. that have been developed. The business analyst is also expected to provide excellent customer service by driving and facilitating, JAD sessions, demos, feedback loops, and UAT testing processes with the customer. The individual coming into this role must have strong communication skills and be a team player because they will be working so closely with the entire technical project team and will be involved with business area partners.

The client is looking for a results oriented and adaptable business analyst with a can do attitude to collaborate with our IT project team and business partners on application development and business intelligence projects. These projects include business intelligence data warehousing efforts as well legacy and modernized software/application development projects for our business partners.

Tasks

• The business analyst is responsible for ensuring our development teams have complete and accurate business requirements, our business partners have considered their needs vs. their wants in their projects and ensuring quality control by testing web applications, reports etc. that have been developed.
• The business analyst is also expected to provide excellent customer service by driving and facilitating, JAD sessions, demos, feedback loops, and UAT testing processes with the customer.
• Responsible for leading and facilitating the communication with IT staff, business customers and other stakeholders from a wide array of backgrounds, implementation services, and support services to assist in the development, implementation and support of business intelligence.
• Ability to document and speak competently to business objectives, gaps, needs and problems. Once documented, can leverage the knowledge and materials to help the IT team devise product and process solutioning that can be delivered to meet the defined needs of the business users. Works closely with the business users to document business processes. Focuses on specific business user needs such as how data is to be summarized, used in day-to-day operations and formatted in reports and dashboards.
• Assists the IT team in the creation of ad hoc documentation, including but not limited to; enhancement business requirements, charter contributions, process mapping, data flow diagrams, issue papers, options documents, report/dashboard requirements, requirement traceability matrixes, security assessments, user stories, acceptance criteria, wireframes, source to target mappings and other documents as assigned.
• Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs feasibility studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives in support of enterprise-wide business intelligence. Manages the balance between business requirements and user expectations. Strives for a deeper understanding of our customers business drivers.
• Uses extensive experience as a liaison between users and technologists to drive requirements into design.
• Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing processes: Confers with personnel of organization unites involved to analyze current business procedures, identify issues, and learn specific business requirements, such as how data is to be summarized, and formats for reports.
• Works with the team lead and manager to determine a detailed and prioritized list of objectives and activities for current and future projects.
• Responsibilities include project work enhancing existing/new processes through data sharing, configuration, report writing and metrics.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues efficiently. Identify potential technology improvements to be leveraged in support of the business. Assist in the creation and maintenance of test plans. Participate in special projects as required.
• Demonstrates ability to manage competing priorities across multiple efforts at varying stages within the development lifecycle; keep up with fast-paced schedules; and learn new technologies quickly and effectively. Independently performs a variety of complicated tasks and relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Works independently and with team members to understand database structure, business process and the correlation between the two. Comfortable in a complex data environment and understanding data structures.
• Ability to convey work and results to a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders from both technical and non-technical backgrounds.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills
• The candidate should have strong communication skills and should be a team player.
• The individual coming into this role must have strong communication skills and be a team player because they will be working so closely with the entire technical project team and will be involved with business area partners.

NOTE: Candidate MUST be a WI resident or willing to relocate to WI prior to starting the role at their own expense. Local candidates preferred. This position is currently remote. However, position status is subject to change. (90% remote 10% onsite as needed) Onsite work is not likely, but candidate should be prepared to come onsite if required.

Location: Madison, WI (Remote form within the State of WI)

Contract: 1 years

Skills Required:

• 5+ years - SQL skill/ability to navigate and query a relational database
• 8 years - Strong practitioner with experience in business requirements, elicitation and documentation
• 7 years - Data mapping and Data analysis
• Experience with requirements verification, creating use cases, process flow diagrams, reporting and quality assurance
• 8 years - Creating and maintaining artifacts such as requirements traceability matrices
• 8 years - Create and maintain standard artifacts (charter, BRD, RTM, fishbone diagram, testing scenario documentation, use cases etc.)
• 7 years - Experience in requirements gathering for data warehouse projects
• 3 years - Ability to navigate and query a relational database (Oracle) to develop reports
• 5 years - Data Modelling Understanding
• 5 years - Documenting business processes and business Process Improvement
• 7 years - Standardized processes and procedures implementation
• 5 years - Ability to develop and implement quality assurance processes and procedures including test/use cases
• 3 years - Develop Mock up s, Design Specifications, functional and non-functional specs
• 4 years - Participate in design reviews
• 7 years - Documenting business process
• 7 years - Testing methods/techniques including creation and execution of unit, system, and user acceptance plan
• 7 years - Ability to perform testing of applications, facilitate testing by others, document results
• 7 years - Experience in usability testing or equivalent user interface test measures
• 7 years - Develop test plans and procedures
• 7 years -Regression testing

Skills Desired A plus to have:

• Writing test scripts using automation testing suites
• Informatica (knowledge on ETL mappings)
• Webi
• Tableau

*** Rate depends on experience

*** Candidates authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We can accept H1b, , TN, and other valid work visas for IT. However, we cannot accept OPT or CPT visas at this time.

*** Companies submitting candidates should only submit direct W2 employees for this position.

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