Job Details
24-00102 Integrations Business Analyst (API testing, UI Design, SQL)
Los Angeles, CA or Remote >>> must work Pacific Time hours
Contract 6 months with extension
This key role is the liaison between business teams and technology teams.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collect and document business requirements from various business teams and provide written functional requirements for various technology teams.
- Work with stakeholders to understand their business and technical requirements, building and managing the product backlog, and successfully leading agile projects through their respective life cycles.
- Manage and drive the requirements-gathering phase of technology projects
- Will sometimes provide second-tier technology applications support and application reporting
- Troubleshoot and resolve applications issues
- Work with the Business to identify requirements and think critically about what will make it successful
- Write user stories that effectively communicate the Business Requirements and that are easily consumed by software development teams
- Attend and lead Business stakeholder meetings; provide project status reporting to management; assist with testing scenarios and validate results
- Create deliverables such as process flows, wireframes, mockups and functional prototypes to effectively communicate design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors
- Prepare and deliver client presentations
- Advocate on behalf of Business to IT, and advocate on behalf of IT to Business
- Become a Subject Matter Expert on a variety of packages and custom business
- Go beyond just reading and understanding information, to making sense of it, and finding patterns for improvement
- Isolate, replicate, and report defect sand verify defect fixes.
- Conduct manual API testing and also using tools including Postman, SoapUI, and RestAssured.
- Ability to build test cases, execute test cases, and log defects in Jira as needed
- Ability to verify the responses of API requests to ensure that they are accurate and meet the specified requirements.
- Ability to debug API issues and work with development teams to resolve them.
- Other duties as required/assigned.
Requirements:
- Bachelor s degree in computer science, IT, Software Engineering or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience
- 5 years previous experience in Business/Systems Analysis and Quality Assurance
- Solid experience in writing SQL queries
- Proven success with UI design
- Proven experience in eliciting requirements and testing
- Experience in analyzing data to draw business-relevant conclusions and in data visualization techniques and tools
- Strong problem-solving skills, results orientation and common sense
- Creative solving of technical problems to ensure the ability to translate technical requirements and test plans
- Basic knowledge in generating process documentation
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including technical writing skills
- Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables ensures the ability to find the bad defects and bugs quickly
- Ability to follow projects through to completion, adhering to tight timelines
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly, step outside of personal comfort zone and handle unfamiliar challenges