Business Analyst in New York, NY

SCOPE OF SERVICES:  

1. Requirements Analysis:

• Identify functional and non-functional requirements for information technology projects and programs using industry standard analysis techniques such as data flow modeling, workflow analysis, and functional decomposition analysis.
• Prepare, review and update requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations for proposed solutions using standard templates.
• Work closely with business units and subject matter experts in definition, testing, training, implementation, and support of functional requirements.
• Solicit requirements through interviews, workshops, surveys, and/or existing systems documentation or procedures.
• Identify and document existing system deficiencies.
• Have considerable knowledge of existing information processing systems and emerging technology trends to match them with DOT's current and future business needs.
• Participate in meetings with both technology and business teams to facilitate the understanding, clarification, and implementation of requirements.
• Create/revise/own analysis artifacts and deliverables such as process maps, business requirements, business rules, user stories, user workflows, use cases, user interfaces, screens, and acceptance test cases.
• Understand client organization's direction, structure, business issues and data challenges.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish client requests from the underlying true needs.
• Define and set standards for requirement analysis, documentation, and traceability.
• Develop templates and processes for status reporting.
• Define and/or contribute to roll-out strategies.
• Devise and participate in client training of new applications. 

2. Client Management:

• Be the liaison between business units, technology teams and support teams.
• Manage client expectations effectively.
• Develop relationships with client personnel that foster client ties.
• Communicate effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions with project management.
• Continually seek opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships. 

3. Communication:

• Create and maintains strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Assist in the facilitation of team and client meetings.
• Understand how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.
• Promote active listening with team members.
• Contribute appropriately to conversations.
• Prepare written business correspondence that is coherent, effective, professional and engaging. 

4. Technical Understanding:

• Contribute to DOT's strategic planning initiatives by suggesting/understanding available technology options to satisfy current and future business needs.
• Possess understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design.
• Understand technical design specifications.
• Understand Internet, Intranet, Extranet and client/server architectures.
• Understand how legacy and web-based systems interface with each other. 

5. Quality Assurance & Acceptance Testing:

• Define and set standards/templates for acceptance test cases, acceptance testing and test matrices.
• Define acceptance test conditions and develop accurate/complete test plans.
• Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner.
• Lead and conduct acceptance testing efforts according to plan. 

6. Project Execution:

• Work independently with clients to define concepts and under direction of project managers.
• Take inputs from supervisor and appropriately apply comments/feedback.
• Understand the necessity of project standards and apply them consistently.
• Understand how various issues affect each other and the outcome of projects.
• Define and/or execute scope change management process.
• Develop internal and external meeting objectives and agendas.Prioritize multiple tasks effectively. 

7. Team Work:

• Work with client personnel to identify required changes.
• Demonstrate the ability to cooperate with a variety of people and achieve results.
• Proactively initiate, develop, and maintain effective working relationships with team members.
• Communicate needed changes to development team. 

MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE  

• BA/BS Degree or equivalent, in a technology related field or other degree preferred.
• 8-10 years of experience in specifying, analyzing and documenting requirements for mission critical business applications in a web/client-server environment.
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or similar certification.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally and confidently with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Strong analytical, decision-making and problem solving skills to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Strong facilitation skills and proven experience at driving consensus across multiple stakeholders.
• Good presentation and leadership skills.
• Must be flexible and willing to undertake a wide variety of challenging tasks.
• Process-driven analysis skills and a background in various requirements elicitation methods.
• Proficiency with Waterfall, RUP and Agile SDLC processes.
• Team player who can establish excellent working relationships with peers and other teams.
• Ability to work on multiple projects as team member.
• Ability to estimate for delivery commitments.
• Utilize application development environments, tools and methodologies across multiple platforms.
• Experience using Microsoft Office Applications. 

DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE: 

• Requirement analysis expertise with large transportation management systems.
• Exposure to GIS-based information technology projects.
• Working knowledge of HTML, SQL, and database design.
• Experience with web-based applications, database query tools, and Microsoft Office products.
• Working experience with legacy mainframe integration and system improvement projects. 

Prior experience in federal/state/local government projects.

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