What You Will Be Doing:
- Participate in functional and technical design workshops.
- Gather and document business, functional, and technical requirements.
- Create functional design specification documents.
- Create technical design specification documents.
- Create and document test scenarios and scripts.
- Act as liaison between business stakeholders, development team, and testing team.
- Conduct interviews and meetings with stakeholders to define business requirements.
- Analyze business processes to identify gaps and solutions.
- Work with development team to ensure business requirements are communicated clearly and accurately into specifications.
- Develop an understanding of legacy systems used to support the business.
- Identify and document transitional requirements for the implementation of technology solution.
- Identify areas of potential to leverage technology solution.
- Acquire an understanding of the selected technology solutions.
- Gain a solid familiarity with business processes and workflows.
- Work collaboratively with testing team to build test cases and ensure that business requirements are incorporated.
- Collaborate in the development of requirements traceability matrix.
Skills & Requirements:
"Manager Must-Haves ":
- 5 years' experience in a Business Analyst role.
- 3 years' experience working as a business analyst on an Enterprise Work/Asset Management system (EAM) implementation at an electric or gas utility company. (E.g. ARM, Maximo, SAP, Oracle WAM, etc.)
- 3 years' experience writing functional / technical design documentation and process flows for system-to-system integrations.
- Excellent analytical and conceptual skills.
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Excellent written communication skills (writing samples required).
- Ability to create functional design specification documents.
- Ability to create technical design specification documents.
- Adept at creating clear and well-defined process flows.
- Ability to identify gaps in business requirements.
- Knowledge of Project Management basics.
- Demonstrated ability to work in teams and cross-functional environments.
- Ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships with team members.
- Familiarity with Waterfall and Agile software development lifecycle methodologies. Must have solid experience with Waterfall projects as a BA.
- Ability to effectively communicate ideas in both technical and easily accessible language.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office tools: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
"Manager Nice-to-Have ":
- Familiarity with both manual and automated software quality assurance methodologies and best practices.
- Hands-on experience with Unified Functional Tester (UFT) automated testing tool.
- Proficiency in SQL / PLSQL for writing queries against an Oracle relational database.
Education:
Bachelors degree
