Business Analyst

Motion Recruitment

  • San Francisco, CA
  • Contract
  • Full-time
  • 30 days ago
Our client is looking for full-time Business Analyst. This role will be onsite in either San Francisco, CA or New York, NY.Contract Duration: 8 MonthsRequired Skills & Experience
  • 5- 7 years experience as Product Manager and/or Business Analyst on software development projects
  • Financial domain knowledge/experience preferably in the space of ETFs, mutual funds, portfolio management or trade operations
  • Strong interpersonal skills and verbal/written communication skills
  • Strong project and time management skills
  • Strong ability to build effective working relationships across various levels
  • Ability to set and maintain priorities in a multi-task environment
  • Ability to handle pressure and changes effectively
  • Experience executing test plans and coordinating automated testing
  • Experience in product demos, presentations and user training
  • Experience working in a globally, distributed team
  • Experience working in Agile SDLC
  • Excellent business judgment and strong analytical skills, with ability to identify issues and solutions
Required technical skills include:
  • Experience facilitating business discovery workshops and interviewing end-users
  • Demonstrated ability to write high-level business requirements
  • Demonstrated ability to write functional specifications: including use cases, business process diagrams, user interface wireframes and data dictionaries
  • Demonstrated ability to write and execute user-acceptance test plans and cases
  • Experience working on projects with modern application development (e.g. Web applications using Angular/React, Web Services, APIs, JSON/XML, NoSQL Databases, Kubernetes, Cloud Technology)
  • Experience with UI/UX design/prototyping is a distinct advantage
What You Will Be Doing
Daily Responsibilities
  • Analyze business processes/requirements and developing specifications for both near and longer-term solutions
  • Attending key Agile development rituals such as stand-ups, grooming, planning, demos and retrospectives
  • Coordinating with users and development teams to perform user acceptance tests
  • Conduct product demos, presentations and user training
  • Oversee the creation of key artifacts critical to the delivery of excellent software products:
- Business requirements
- Process definition documents
- Functional specifications
- Data definition documents
- Product release notes
- User journey maps
- Use cases, user stories
- User-acceptance test plans and cases

Motion Recruitment