Business Analyst

Business Analyst - Dallas, Texas

Are you a Business Analyst looking for a new challenging opportunity?

Optomi in partnership with a Dallas-based financial services firm seeks a Business Analyst to facilitate and manage requirements gathering for large-scale software development projects.

This position will also lead and coordinate the creation of requirement documentation from a wide variety of stakeholders and work with the Development, Operations, and QA teams to see that the requirements are tested successfully and implemented accurately.

Apply today if your background includes:

• 5-8+ years experience in business analysis role in software product development eliciting requirements
• 5+ years experience using iterative development methodologies such as RUP and/or Agile
• 3+ years experience with relational databases and SQL

What the right person will enjoy:

• Creative and energized culture
• Opportunity fro growth and development

• Gather internal and external enhancement requests from a diverse group of stakeholders including Customers, Sales, Executives, Operations, Accounting, and Compliance
• Be the primary facilitator responsible for defining, documenting and managing software requirements for large-scale development projects
• Create quality requirements artifacts including functional specifications, use cases, activity diagrams, process flows, business rules, technical specifications, GUI screen mockups, internal guides, and external guides
• Create test data in multiple test environments to aid in the requirements analysis process
• Work with Development and QA to review all requirements documentation, receive feedback and ensure all issues related to the requirements are resolved in a timely manner
• Assist QA with acceptance testing of requirements
• Train Operations on new features resulting from requirements
• Assist Operations with troubleshooting and analysis of production issues

• Bachelor's Degree
• Must demonstrate strong technical aptitude and understanding of how technologies impact delivery
• Must possess strong analytical skills
• Must be detail-oriented, well-organized and self-motivated
• Must work well in a fast-paced, sometimes stressful environment
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Microsoft Project, Microsoft VISIO
• Experience with API development, particularly XML, FIXML (FpML a plus)