Position: Trainee BA
Company: Vector Software
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: no_exp
English level: upper

**About the project:**
Main goal of the developed solution is to provide real-time detection, tracking and monitoring of sea traffic and vessels’ information. The system is currently in operation on several hundreds of small, medium scale and large VTMS (Vessel Traffic Management System) worldwide.

**Responsibilities:**
• Facilitate requirements clarification and elicitation process with support from more experienced business analysts on the project
• Document and maintain requirements according to templates and approaches developed and controlled by more experienced business analysts
• Interpretation of business requirements to functional requirements and provide acceptance criteria with support from experienced business analysts for simple situation
• Close communication with customer and development team
• Support team during user acceptance testing

**Requirements:**
• Basic Knowledge of Business Analysis theory
• Basic level of requirements elicitation, and analysis skills
• Be proactive, result-oriented, flexible, stress-resistant
• Good communication skills
• English - B2

Business Analysis Knowledge:
• Understand the components involved in preparing for elicitation activities with support from others.
• Understand the importance of eliciting information relevant to the change.
• Understand the need to ensure that requirements and designs align with one another
• Understand the importance of maintaining requirements and designs
• Understand the importance of prioritizing requirements/designs
• Understand the importance of evaluating the impact of proposed changes to requirements/designs
• Understand the importance of analyzing and refining elicitation results into requirements and designs
• Understand the importance of ensuring requirements and design specifications meet quality standards
• Understand the importance of ensuring requirements and designs support delivery of value

Business Analysis Techniques:
• General Awareness of Brainstorming technique
• General Awareness of Interviewing techniques
• General Awareness of Lessons Learned techniques
• General Awareness of Survey or Questionnaire techniques
• General Awareness of Requirements Tracking techniques
• General Awareness of Workshops techniques
 
Tools and Technology
• Experience with Word processing and presentation programs (MS Word, Google document, etc)
• Experience with Presentation software (MS Power Point, etc)
• Basic level of Spreadsheets (MS Excel, Google Spreadsheets, etc)
• Communication and collaboration tools (skype, teams, e-mails, ets)
• General awareness of modeling tools (MS Visio, draw.io, etc)

**We offer:**
• Friendly team of highly experienced specialists
• Mature company culture possessing such values as Openness, Honesty,  Responsibility and Excellence in day-to-day cooperation
• Regular corporate events, holiday celebrations, team building activities
• Internal training programs, free SmartTalks and TechTalks inside the company 
• Training compensation
• Loyalty program (IT club)
• Paid vacation and premium medical insurance package
• Free English classes