Role: Sr
Business Analyst

Location:
Deerfield Beach, FL (Hybrid 3/2)
Duration: 12 MONTHS WITH POSSIBLE EXTENSION

Visa: USC, GC Only

Top
technical skills:

• 
  ADO
• 
  Must have ADO this person will be a back up to the PM if
  needed so should be able to manage
  Azure Backlog, Update Azure Boards, Run Scrum Standups with
  Documentation
• 
  This is a BA role with analytical
  skills who can flex into some support directly to the scrum master
  (backing them up)
• 
  They are technical and can do
  analytics, testing, reconciliation, data validation for migration projects
• 
  EXCEL
  formulas, VLOOKUP, Pivot
• 
  Advanced
  Consumer Lending System (ACLS) and LeMans (Lease Management) are both
  mainframe applications or alfa is a plus.

Scope:

Currently this
team is consuming 25 requirement documentations from various teams they need
someone who is seasoned and can facilitate meetings, elicit requirements from
stakeholders, someone who is not shy and can liaise across business units and
various teams

Needs:

• 
  This is someone who can work independently and find
  their own way
• 
  A critical thinker who can leverage resources on and
  outside of their team
• 
  This person must have strong people skills and be
  highly collaborative
• 
  This is part of the Spark project specifically the
  portfolio conversion component
• 
  Time management and work prioritization are essential
  skills they need someone who can speak up if overwhelmed, ask
  prioritization questions and be honest about their capacity and abilities
• 
  Someone who is not shy it’s ok to not know something
  but they need to be able to do so
• 
  Someone strategic and tactical who can identify gaps
  and articulate that to the team
• 
  Someone highly collaborative, who has strong attention
  to detail
• 
  Is a do-er and listens, understands, asks good
  questions
• 
  They don t need loan or mortgage or auto retail
  experience this can be trained

Foundational:

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  Work directly with business partners to elicit and
  write quality requirements; documenting business and system/data
  requirements in user story format within ADO
• 
  Build and maintain relationships with your assigned
  team and corporate stakeholders
• 
  Study and understand processes/subject areas for your
  assigned team
• 
  Perform requirements gathering / clarifications with
  technical team
• 
  Collaborate with external and internal stakeholders and
  vendors to analyze business needs and work with teams on solutions
• 
  Work with implementation partners to ensure a smooth
  project / product teams go live(s)
• 
  Lead assigned initiatives. Communicate status, issues
  or risks to management and stakeholders
• 
  Collaborate with technology teams, business teams,
  vendors and subject matter experts to perform daily activities
• 
  Serve as the conduit between the business partners and
  the technical team through triage, research, requirements, testing, and
  support
• 
  Be accountable for properly following all IT standards,
  processes and methodologies as applicable (including but not limited to
  the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Quality Assurance practices,
  etc.)
• 
  On Call Support - Secondary (One week once every 3 - 6
  months) - Connect with Sudhir to swap if pulled during critical PC trial
• 
  Perform On-call Support on a rotating schedule (M-F
  only, no evenings or weekends)
• 
  Be willing to participate in On-call rotation and
  perform validation of applications
• 
  Accountable for managing and delivering the support
  requests for assigned Business Unit and related JM Family requests. This
  includes the planning, troubleshooting, solving, and communicating of a
  variety of requests, incidents, and problems independently within multiple
  areas
• 
  Ability to produce SOP documents and be a change agent
  in getting those produced SOPs adopted by Business and IT Users
• 
  Leading the triage of Issue resolution and communicate
  effectively with both Business and IT teams
• 
  Ability to produce Business Requirements/User Stories
  and working knowledge of working with QA Resources in coming up with the
  test cases
• 
  Cross-training to learn applications across the
  assigned Business Unit application portfolio
• 
  Learn the processes and tools needed to perform the
  role effectively
• 
  Identify the business impact of system issues and
  facilitate communication as appropriate to stakeholders
• 
  Engage and communicate with senior management as
  appropriate

Specific to
Portfolio Conversion:

• 
  Help PM capture and manage action items in ADO as
  needed
• 
  PI planning
• 
  DMR business and technical takeaways
• 
  Daily scrum
• 
  Defect triage
• 
  Non-SDLC tasks / mapping takeaways
• 
  Identify improvement opportunities and follow up with a
  RAPID as needed
• 
  Develop process/data flows in Visio as needed
• 
  Create SOPs
• 
  Create test cases for manual UI validation, partner
  with QA & Alfa as needed
• 
  Collaborate with QA/IT to create test scripts for
  regression testing
• 
  Help with manual UI/data validation (as bandwidth
  permits)
• 
  Help research, log, and retest defects (as bandwidth
  permits)
• 
  Lead PC requirements elicitation, partner with other
  SPARK teams (BA, BM, FL, Configuration Lead) as needed
• 
  Identify need for PC placeholders in Alfa and manage
  them trial over trial as needed
• 
  (e.g., following up on configuration & code
  refactoring, closing features/stories in ADO, communicating with BMs)
• 
  Help Feature Lead create onboarding materials for new
  testers
• 
  Document Alfa UI path in DMR as needed
• 
  Deliver Alfa UI demos as needed
• 
  Serve as QA Lead backup to lead defect triage