Senior Business Analyst

Title: Sr Business AnalystLocation: New York, NY, 10007Duration: Permanent placementCompensation: 120-140kWork Requirements: , HoldersQualified candidates may send a copy of their resume (Word Format) to Elizabeth Walton at .

• Interact with project sponsors, business owners and end users in the client organization to understand business and project objectives. Conduct stakeholder and end user interviews, workshops, and surveys for identifying business needs.
• Understand the overall business dynamics, strategic objectives, IT landscape and organization culture of the client organization and identify the system's fit in the ecosystem.
• Experience working with a Housing Authority, Governmental Agency Plan, estimate, define scope of the business analysis phase and take complete ownership of the Requirement and Design phases until completion.
• Identify, assess, and document business requirements, factor business priorities, and advise business on options, risks, and costs. Conduct a feasibility analysis of possible solutions in consultation with technical architects and perform impact analysis of the proposed solution.
• Conduct requirement walkthroughs, gather feedback, resolve conflicts, build consensus and refine the solution based on the gathered inputs.
• Develop requirement specifications in the format determined by the chosen project methodology and engagement scope which could include business requirements document, Design documents, scope matrix, use cases, sequence diagrams, process models, workflow diagrams, UAT plan etc.
• Create prototypes in form of sketches and wireframes using basic usability principles.
• Work with cross-functional team of usability/user experience analysts and visual designers to design effective and compelling user-experience.
• Work with quality assurance team to ensure that requirements documentation can be easily translated into suitable test cases and plans leading to full test coverage of the system.
• Support the development and quality teams in understanding and assimilating the requirements.
• Assist with high level design documents and help the team with functional understanding.
• Scoping and defining new business opportunities. Identify improvement opportunities (proactive and reactive).
• Engage in pre-sales activities like create functional response to RFPs, bid defense, conduct demos.