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position: senior business analyst (production support)location: remote east coastjob type: direct hire job descriptionthe sr. business analyst elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the needs of business stakeholders. this includes understanding, documenting, and evaluating business processes through interviewing stakeholders. the sr. business analyst elicits, gathers compiles and documents user requirements and translates them into functional requirements for technology solutions with an eye to improving processes and systems, enhancing their sustainability, and delivering maximum return on investment. the sr. business analyst must have a thorough understanding of the business, functional, and technical aspects of the applications used within the portfolio they support. core responsibilitiesevaluate business processes anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and eliciting requirements for change.lead ongoing reviews of business processes and develop optimization strategies.conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.prepare business cases which define potential benefits, options for achievingthese benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate this back to the business stakeholders.prepare effort estimation.perform requirements analysis. document and communicate the results of the analysis.translate business requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developersthe project team.analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to business owner(s), developers andor the project team.develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.select, adopt and adapt appropriate business analysis methods, tools and techniques; selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterativeagile) approaches.collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, conducting of investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.provide leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.collaborate with its teams and business partners to evaluate and prioritize work.triage and analyze incidents and problems. provide clear analysis results including business impact.assist test analyst(s) with testing duties as necessary.on-call andor after-hours work required.essential competenciesprofessionalismpersonal accountability, collaboration and teamwork, communication, flexible and adapts to change, service to customers and clients skill qualificationsrequired:proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology developmentexceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skillsability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutionsexcellent documentation skillsfundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skillsexperience creating detailed reports and giving presentationsexcellent planning, organizational, and time management skillsability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly languageexceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as requiredability to translate business requirements of packaged solutionsability to research and understand packaged solution upgrades both minor and major. translates the technical upgrade documentation into business terms the end-user can understand to make decision on. makes recommendation on these upgrades.experience in in agile, waterfall, and hybrid environmentsunderstanding of application development and software development life cycle conceptseffectively participates in teams and moves the team toward completion of goalssystemstechnical knowledge:basic technical understanding of the digital platform, cloud applications, web services, server-side components and apisdata analysis skills including ability to perform ad hoc sql queriescompetency in microsoft applications including word, excel, powerpoint visio and outlook education and experience qualifications required:bs or ba with emphasis in computer science, information systems or business administration7-10 or more years related work experience as a business analystpreferred:certification of competency in business analysis (ccba) andor certified business analysis professions (cbap) preferred

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<<professional summaryto obtain a full time opportunity in the area of information systems, database and business administration, managing business stakeholders, configurations, designing, testing, troubleshooting, maintenance and monitoring for honing my skills. to be recognized as an important asset to the institution and to keep myself updated regularly designing and implementing tests of processes authentication management technologies gui testing gap analysis documentation reporting organize joint application developments (jad) sessions and jrp risk assessment statistical analysis validate functionality problem solving brd process modeling project management rapid application development (rad) sessions ad-hoc testing back-end testing. interpersonal skills: collaboration customer service influencing others negotiation teamwork facilitating meetings follow-up navigating a matrix reporting relationship critical thinking scoping detail oriented decision making ability to work with cross-functional teams attention to detail core qualificationsmicrosoft access microsoft excel ms office microsoft project powerpoint sharepoint sql queries tableau visual studio spotfire visio crm tfs workflow tools sql server aws experience business data analyst intern,01/1-01/1internet brands, inc.–.usatotal work experience of 4.6 years in information system and agile environment) baby deedee, usa it admin intern oct'16 - dec'16.deployed and delivered enhanced web plugins , security services, website data analysis as per business requirements.collaborated with design, strategy and sales teams to find solutions for client website projects and developing complex sql queries to illustrate possible solutions.drafted and managed business stakeholder expectations to achieve scope in complex and challenging environment.designing website on drupal, modifying data warehouses & creating detailed reports on research to provide ideas.technical analyst,01/1-01/1general dynamics–.indiatrained a fresher's batch of 25 engineers and led the cloud platform maintenance team of 30 technical engineers for ms project process which gathered, transformed & performed analytics data.managed responsibilities of scoping and business meetings with business stakeholders and then provided support to the business analysis team in preparing business plans and strategies.technical system engineer,01/1-01/1cisco systems, inc.–.indiacoordinated system development tasks to include design, integration and formal testing.created and maintained programmatic and technical documentation to insure efficient planning and execution designated as an active sme for microsoft project server team of 30 technical engineers.awarded certificate of excellence for outstanding performance as a best support engineer (2nd & 4th quarter 2014).appreciated for designing a project blog site for improvising internal process to post their research and publish ongoing service.valued for developing a site on cosmos server which collaborates the data and generates performance reports.designed and deployed a data breach detection application for big data repositories to identify which user has accessed the component in hdfs for a given day, match it against a rules of access table, and created a line in a report for users that do not match the allowed access criteria in a rules access file.project and change management: planned project decision-making methods on ms project, through various project cycles and structured systems development techniques to apply them to the complex world of information development.information security management: evaluated background in managing information security in organizations, which included risk identification and assessment, security policy and planning, personnel and security, privacy and security audit.india trainee system engineer,01/1-01/1vishesh pvt ltd–.assisted engineers and scientists as they create, modify, and test products and processes.performed extensive research and development during creation phase of product. education master of science:information systems,expected inmay '17-pace university, seidenberg school of csis-new york,nygpa:status-information systemsbachelor of engineering:electronics and communication,expected inaugust '13-mumbai university-mumbai mumbai,gpa:status-electronics and communication skills agile, big data, business analysis, business plans, change management, crm, client, data analysis, data warehouses, dec, decision-making, designing, drupal, engineer, information security, managing, meetings, access, microsoft access, office, project, microsoft project, sharepoint, oct, personnel, processes, test products, research, sales, sql server, strategy, structured, systems development, tableau, technical documentation, visio, visual studio, website, workflow.