Business Analyst

Job Description

Attention skilled IT Business Analyst! Our direct client located on Mercer Island, WA has a need to add you to their very large implementation project. This potentially is a very long-term contract. The client offers a pleasant work atmosphere that also includes free parking.

Serves as a liaison between the Business and IT to provide solutions to business needs; understands customers’ objectives, processes, and products as well as the business systems capabilities; performs impact analysis of making changes to application systems and supports development of effort/cost estimates; develops and documents functional specifications; supports application testing, implementation, and training activities.

• Performs impact analysis of application changes across various components, holding an end-to-end view of the system.
• Defines project scope; develops functional specifications; prepares Preliminary Systems Design document.
• Understands customers objectives, processes, and products in order to make educated recommendations; acts as liaison between Business and IT.
• Supports the Application Subject Matter Experts in development of estimates / validation of suppliers’ estimates.
• Supports application testing, implementation, and training activities; performs quality review checks on project deliverables.

• 3+ years of experience in analysis or a technical development role.
• Experienced with requirement gathering.
• Application system analysis experience.
• Writing functional specifications.
• Application testing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to provide information effectively and passively participate in team meetings.
• Understands routine business conversations and can convey information in letter format with few errors.