Business Analyst, Sr.

Overview: Tekwissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. Our client is an American organization that operates Texas's electrical grid, the Texas Interconnection, which supplies power to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90 percent of the state's electric load. Our client is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the United States and one of nine ISOs in North America. Our client works with the Texas Reliability Entity (TRE), one of eight regional entities within the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) that coordinate to improve reliability of the bulk power grid. Our client is a membership-based 501(c) nonprofit corporation, and its members include consumers, electric cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor-owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers), and municipally owned electric utilities. Job Title: Business Analyst, Sr Location: Taylor TX 76574 Duration: 6 Months Job Type: Contract Work Type: Onsite Job Description: JOB SUMMARY Gathers, interprets and documents customer business needs that are translated into application requirements, operational requirements, use cases and test cases. Serves as the conduit liaison between internal business units, vendors and software application development teams. JOB DUTIES Understands and applies principles, theories and concepts related to the profession and culture. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action. Impact is generally limited to specific assignments or projects. May respond to inquiries and/or provide assistance and/or guidance to lower-level workers. ADDITIONAL JOB DUTIES Interacts with project managers, executives, managers, Market Participants, software developers, test coordinators, training specialists, user experience specialists, and subject matter experts to elicit and clarify business, market and project requirements Uses interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, use cases, and scenarios to obtain requirements Analyses and measures the effectiveness of existing business processes and develops sustainable, repeatable and quantifiable business process improvements Uses business analysis to define and chart tasks and workflows in conjunction with project managers Assesses technologies to create developmental specifications as well as detailed use and test cases Facilitates the implementation of requirements through the lifecycle of a project Plans and organizes time, priorities and resources to coordinate multiple initiatives simultaneously and produce deliverables on time and on budget Uses requirements to drive the design and review of test cases Reports issues and obstacles which may impact project delivery or completion Serves as the subject matter expert for the business analyst discipline within the organization Works on the most complex projects where analysis of situations requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. Has the ability to resolve complex issuesin creative and effective ways Uses considerable latitude in methods, techniques and evaluations used to obtain results which will maximize return on investment for the organization Makes independent business decisions except in instances of unusually complex business scenarios Demonstrates proven, broad based business acumen including business/financial analysis and team leadership Maintains knowledge of emerging trends and industry best practices EXPERIENCE Requires minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in internal business and technical analysis Prefer minimum of 2 years of experience in project management roles Requires demonstrated proficiency with technical writing CERTIFICATION CBAP Certified Business Analysis Professional (preferred) CCBA Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (preferred) EDUCATION Bachelor's Degree: Business Administration, Accounting, MIS, Computer Science or related field (Required) or a combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge to a major in such fields is required TekWissen ® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.