Business Analyst

Our client is looking for full-time Business Analyst. This role will be onsite in either San Francisco, CA or New York, NY.

Contract Duration: 8 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 8- 10 years experience as Product Manager and/or Business Analyst on software development projects
• Financial domain knowledge/experience preferably in the space of ETFs, mutual funds, portfolio management or trade operations
• Strong interpersonal skills and verbal/written communication skills
• Strong project and time management skills
• Strong ability to build effective working relationships across various levels
• Ability to set and maintain priorities in a multi-task environment
• Ability to handle pressure and changes effectively
• Experience executing test plans and coordinating automated testing
• Experience in product demos, presentations and user training
• Experience working in a globally, distributed team
• Experience working in Agile SDLC
• Excellent business judgment and strong analytical skills, with ability to identify issues and solutions

Required technical skills include:

• Experience facilitating business discovery workshops and interviewing end-users
• Demonstrated ability to write high-level business requirements
• Demonstrated ability to write functional specifications: including use cases, business process diagrams, user interface wireframes and data dictionaries
• Demonstrated ability to write and execute user-acceptance test plans and cases
• Experience working on projects with modern application development (e.g. Web applications using Angular/React, Web Services, APIs, JSON/XML, NoSQL Databases, Kubernetes, Cloud Technology)
• Experience with UI/UX design/prototyping is a distinct advantage

What You Will Be Doing
Daily Responsibilities

• Analyze business processes/requirements and developing specifications for both near and longer-term solutions
• Attending key Agile development rituals such as stand-ups, grooming, planning, demos and retrospectives
• Coordinating with users and development teams to perform user acceptance tests
• Conduct product demos, presentations and user training
• Oversee the creation of key artifacts critical to the delivery of excellent software products:
  • Business requirements
  • Process definition documents
  • Functional specifications
  • Data definition documents
  • Product release notes
  • User journey maps
  • Use cases, user stories
  • User-acceptance test plans and cases