Job Title : Business Analyst
Project Location : Berkeley Heights, NJ
Duration : 6 months /Contract
Interview Mode: Phone and Face to Face
Skills Required and Job Description:
Day in the Life:
Understand business objectives, processes, and strategies
Support IT efforts to develop and maintain the portfolio of system needs
Provide subject matter expertise in the functional area as it relates to system capabilities
Define business and user requirements for new systems and system enhancements
Respond to application production support issues
Drive collaboration between the business and IT colleagues, constructively resolve conflicts and properly influence key stakeholders
Work with business colleagues to develop and support strategies for business process improvements through information systems automation.
Support the use of IT standards and tools
Serve as voice of IT with business colleagues
Serve as advisor on using IT capabilities to further enable business activities
Understand IT strategies, policies, standards, and work practices; and, effectively represent them to the business
Prepare business cases and associated materials required to initiate a project
Work with IT colleagues to develop resource estimates and timelines
Act as functional project manager for new systems or enhancements to existing systems
Proactively manage changes in project scope or schedule and assess their impact on budgets, business processes or other initiatives
Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business, user, and non-functional requirements
Develop business area process models, activity diagrams and use cases
Prepare simulations of user requirements
Map application capabilities to requirements to ensure that business needs are met
Own and prepare test scripts and expected results for user acceptance testing (UAT) based on business and user requirements
Own and author UAT Plan and UAT Results Report
Develop and manage data to be utilized for UAT test cases
Identify application defects, correlate with detailed business and user requirements, and assign priorities based on business input
Respond to unresolved production support issues and participate in analysis and resolution on behalf of the business
Identify, track, and maintain an inventory of business needs to be defined in detail for application systems
Prepare documentation consistent with standards for documents such as requests for proposals (RFP), service level requirements (SLR), training documents, user manuals, and work practices.
Assist with the development and execution of change management and training throughout the organization during the implementation and ongoing use of system applications
Understand project management and contribute to defining work plans and keeping track of progress
Facilitate meetings with business colleagues on IT topics
What You Bring to the Team:
6+ years experience as a Business Analyst with requirements elicitation, documentation, testing, training
Ability to follow pre-determined schedules
Proficient with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project Management tools
Requirements management tools such as Blue Print Requirements Center, Requisite Pro, or similar
Intermediate to expert level in developing and leveraging BI tools like Tableau, QlickView, Business Objects etc a must.
Strong intermediate to expert level understanding and experience with data solutions in Pharma Commercial envrionment.
Pharmaceutical, Bio-Technology, Life Science industry experience
Project experience with COTS and Web-based requirements, design, or development
Business analysis certification a plus
Six Sigma, Lean or Business Process Change Techniques a plus
Functional Knowledge:
Awareness of business and enterprise architecture
Awareness of regulatory compliance and role of systems in supporting compliance
Understands fundamentals of Systems Development Life Cycle
Understands fundamentals of system testing
Thanks & Regards
Javed Ansari
(TEAM LEAD RECRUITER)
RG Talent Inc.
32108 Argonaut way,
Suite # 157, Fremont, CA 95438
Phone : 510-443-0757 Ext-119
Fax : 510-952-4633
Email : javed.ansari@rgtalent.com