Business Analyst
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Client: World Bank Position: Business Analyst Location: Washington DC (4 Days Onsite) Visa: No H1 Rate: Depend Upon Experience Duration: 12+ Months The primary role of the Business Analyst is to elicit, document and analyze business/functional requirements. The Business Analyst will play a vital role in functional and system integration testing. Mandatory Skills/Experience: • Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Finance • Role Specific Experience: 3+ years of relevant technical and business work experience • Banking & Financial domain experience, along with knowledge of risk management, familiarity with concepts of finance and accounting • Proficiency in MS Excel • Experience in defining and implementing technology solutions for a major financial institution • Extensive experience as a Business Analyst for a large financial institution • Extensive experience in gathering business requirements and developing functional specifications with special emphasis on use cases, defining test cases, and providing user training and support • Extensive experience with various system development lifecycle methodologies and tailoring the artifacts to those methodologies • Solution-oriented, detailed-focused, showing strong analytical and organization skills • Familiarity with relational databases/RDMS • Experience with writing simple SQL statements (mostly SELECT - with aim to analyze datasets) • Familiarity with any object-oriented programming language is a plus (C# preferred) Scope of Work: • Interface with the business client to understand business needs and requirements, and to help develop and maintain the client relationship • Build stakeholder consensus and ensure everyone is on the same page, in agreement, and can visualize the solution being proposed • Develop business cases, requirements, use cases, test plans, test strategies, test cases, and operational procedures and plans • Document business processes and workflows • Craft business cases to evaluate the feasibility of technology initiatives • Identify business and functional requirements by working with application end-users, and lead the collection, analysis, documentation, and coordination of those requirements • Design and execute test cases for application development and implementation projects • Collaborate with IT professionals to determine if solutions currently exist (internally or externally) or whether new solutions are feasible to meet business requirements • Leverage rapid prototyping approaches to present as-is/to-be processes/workflows and rough designs of the proposed solution • Maintain a comprehensive chronological trail of requirements and agreements and actively contribute to the project change control process. Document and manage issues and actions • Provide overall support to ensure the successful design, testing, and implementation of applications that support the business unit, Also, provide support in developing training materials and conducting training • Document and manage issues and actions for IT applications and projects • Prepare and make presentations using MS PowerPoint and Visio to project stakeholders and management • Evaluate applications and IT environments, and analyze gaps between current and desired states