Kyyba
Business System Analyst
Kyyba, Boston, Massachusetts, us, 02298
Primary Responsibilities
Partner with business and technical groups and actively engage in strategic initiatives requiring complex analytic models and solutions. Independently lead requirement gathering sessions to help design and implement a business intelligence system that would ultimately ingest large data per business and data cleansing rules and will enable business to extract business intelligence as defined in the business model. Execute business analysis tasks and strategies to achieve overall project business analysis goals, in line with current EEA IT BA methodology and responsibilities. Facilitate successful delivery of project requirements to meet project specifications. Work with business users to research, understand, and document and business processes and requirements using common tools such as JIRA, VISIO, SharePoint, MS Office Suite. Must have thorough knowledge of product life cycle management concepts. Coordinate and interact with designers and developers on data quality and data management. Collaborate with stakeholders on data maintenance and planning processes to ensure data integrity and security. Experience handling large volumes of data and knowledge of various data analytics tools. Knowledge of Power BI or any other data visualization tool is a must. Support implementation of new data analytics tools. Using agile methodology, create and maintain business requirements documentation. Create clear, organized user stories. Document detailed system specifications. Collaborate with UI/UX designer to develop UI specifications. Perform software QA through Development, Test and Production release phases. Create test cases during development process. Work with development team to analyze bugs and errors found. Document test results for development team and application stake holders. Perform other duties related to software delivery as needed, including training end users. BS/MS or a minimum 4-year degree in a related field. 8+ years of relevant hands-on experience working in software development as business analyst. Must be highly organized with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and great attention to detail. Proven skills in breaking down and optimizing complex business processes. Proven experience leading and documenting requirements-gathering sessions and developing user stories. Strong working knowledge of software development, Waterfall and Agile (Scrum, Kanban) methodologies. Demonstrated ability to prepare User Stories, Process Flows, BRDs, FRDs, Use Cases and Data Mapping documents. Must be able to communicate with non-technical (business) and technical (development team) audiences. Certified Business Analyst Professional or Certified Scrum Master is preferred but not required. Experience with Jira is preferred. Experience with Smartsheet is a plus. Some background in environmental issues, energy, or government experience preferred but not required.
Desired Skills Desired Skills
Must have exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Must be a quick and enthusiastic learner. Effective negotiator with the ability to successfully balance business needs with IT time and resource constraints and arrive at mutually acceptable outcomes. Comfort working in a fluid environment where visions and requirements may change. Must be able to prepare acceptance test plans, test cases and QA processes and work directly with end-users to ensure that application functionality meets requirements. Must be able to direct technical staff with a collaborative, hands-on approach. Applies a proven customer-first approach when working with others.
Partner with business and technical groups and actively engage in strategic initiatives requiring complex analytic models and solutions. Independently lead requirement gathering sessions to help design and implement a business intelligence system that would ultimately ingest large data per business and data cleansing rules and will enable business to extract business intelligence as defined in the business model. Execute business analysis tasks and strategies to achieve overall project business analysis goals, in line with current EEA IT BA methodology and responsibilities. Facilitate successful delivery of project requirements to meet project specifications. Work with business users to research, understand, and document and business processes and requirements using common tools such as JIRA, VISIO, SharePoint, MS Office Suite. Must have thorough knowledge of product life cycle management concepts. Coordinate and interact with designers and developers on data quality and data management. Collaborate with stakeholders on data maintenance and planning processes to ensure data integrity and security. Experience handling large volumes of data and knowledge of various data analytics tools. Knowledge of Power BI or any other data visualization tool is a must. Support implementation of new data analytics tools. Using agile methodology, create and maintain business requirements documentation. Create clear, organized user stories. Document detailed system specifications. Collaborate with UI/UX designer to develop UI specifications. Perform software QA through Development, Test and Production release phases. Create test cases during development process. Work with development team to analyze bugs and errors found. Document test results for development team and application stake holders. Perform other duties related to software delivery as needed, including training end users. BS/MS or a minimum 4-year degree in a related field. 8+ years of relevant hands-on experience working in software development as business analyst. Must be highly organized with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and great attention to detail. Proven skills in breaking down and optimizing complex business processes. Proven experience leading and documenting requirements-gathering sessions and developing user stories. Strong working knowledge of software development, Waterfall and Agile (Scrum, Kanban) methodologies. Demonstrated ability to prepare User Stories, Process Flows, BRDs, FRDs, Use Cases and Data Mapping documents. Must be able to communicate with non-technical (business) and technical (development team) audiences. Certified Business Analyst Professional or Certified Scrum Master is preferred but not required. Experience with Jira is preferred. Experience with Smartsheet is a plus. Some background in environmental issues, energy, or government experience preferred but not required.
Desired Skills Desired Skills
Must have exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Must be a quick and enthusiastic learner. Effective negotiator with the ability to successfully balance business needs with IT time and resource constraints and arrive at mutually acceptable outcomes. Comfort working in a fluid environment where visions and requirements may change. Must be able to prepare acceptance test plans, test cases and QA processes and work directly with end-users to ensure that application functionality meets requirements. Must be able to direct technical staff with a collaborative, hands-on approach. Applies a proven customer-first approach when working with others.