Senior Business Analyst-Irvine, CA

Senior Business Analyst

Location:

Irvine, CA

Duration:
Full Time

Salary plus Benefits

Job Description:

Required Experience

• Minimum 7+ years of experience as IT Business analyst (strong "genuine BA" experience)
• Prior experience of working in Capital Markets domain with Asset Management, Investment Banking organization is preferred
• Strong BA skills like – Functional-spec, BUAT, Test-cases, User-cases, meeting with client sr. managers, presenting business solution, setting up/fine tuning business process, Tracking Projects-status etc.
• Complete understanding of trade life cycle
• Experience with all phases of the SDLC
• Should have worked and delivered projects in Agile & waterfall methodologies

Skills

• Demonstrated ability to work well with different business users and stakeholders' group
• Writing requirements gathering and functional specification documents
• Experience with multiple testing approaches functional, regressions, integration and user testing
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills
• Ability to coordinate with onshore/offshore developers
• Data mapping skills
• Gap/Comparative analysis
• Report analysis
• Willingness to take ownership of a process or application to become the subject matter expert

Technical Skills

• Advanced knowledge of SQL:
  Sybase/Oracle
• Basic knowledge of UNIX is a plus
• Basic understanding of XML is a plus

Preferred Experience

• Understanding of SWIFT messages is a plus