Business Analyst - Purple Drive

Job Title : Business Analyst

Job Location : Albany, NY

Job Description :

Technical/Functional Skills 

• Understand the business process areas assigned and become a subject matter expert in the day-to-day operations and activities of those areas of responsibility • Utilize business analysis skills to develop, recommend, and lead new processes and procedure • Build and leverage relationships with internal business partners and external partners to deliver technology solutions • Responsible for the capturing of business requirements for modules assigned • Responsible for assisting the client in developing the use case for the initiative • Responsible for the fit-gap and design of initiative assigned, which describe the functional design of the system, its business rules, reports, interfaces, enhancements, workflows and gap analysis • Responsible for the system design and configuration of the applications in area of responsibility • Responsible for the development of use cases, testing scenarios, and mock-ups/prototypes for initiatives assigned • Create and update key documents as determined by the lead for assigned initiatives • Provides quality assurance, testing and updates to test plans and script documents as needed • Responsible for the successful and timely completion of assigned tasks • Provide insights and recommendations from analysis and speak to impacts on the business • Identify and resolve problems in a timely manner, gather and analyze information, develop alternative solutions, and work well in individual and group problem solving situations • Be a subject matter expert on area of expertise including best practices and technology trends • Partner with client and colleagues and develop strategic focus regarding the applications within their specific functional area • Manage enhancement requests from users with a view of longer-term strategic vision of operating company goals

Roles & Responsibilities :

• Experience working with Public Sector client is preferred • Sound knowledge of Business Process Notations and UML • Technical knowledge of SQL and Reports preferred • Excellent communication skills • Ability to lead requirements-gathering sessions with relevant business members • Ability to synthesize high-level concepts surrounding new work requests into a gap document and set of business requirements • Ability to effectively present information and training in one-on-one and group situations to customers, clients, and other members

of the organization • Self-motivated, internally driven • Must be able to analyze and evaluate existing or proposed systems to provide data processing and procedural enhancements • Ability to analyze problems and create related solutions in a fast-paced environment • Ability to work within the guidelines of a project management framework • Clearly and concisely expresses professional opinions with supporting rationale • Performs under stress or copes with frequent deadlines of interruptions without loss of efficiency or composure • Ability to motivate others to work toward common organizational goals • Adapts to both working alone, or as part of a larger team, for varying durations • Comfortable making independent field-level decisions and interpretations of existing organizational policies and procedures