Integration Business Analyst (API testing, UI Design, SQL)

24-00102 Integrations Business Analyst (API testing, UI Design, SQL)

Los Angeles, CA or Remote >>> must work Pacific Time hours

Contract 6 months with extension

This key role is the liaison between business teams and technology teams.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

Collect and document business requirements from various business teams and provide written functional requirements for various technology teams.

Work with stakeholders to understand their business and technical requirements, building and managing the product backlog, and successfully leading agile projects through their respective life cycles.

Manage and drive the requirements-gathering phase of technology projects

Will sometimes provide second-tier technology applications support and application reporting

Troubleshoot and resolve applications issues

Work with the Business to identify requirements and think critically about what will make it successful

Write user stories that effectively communicate the Business Requirements and that are easily consumed by software development teams

Attend and lead Business stakeholder meetings; provide project status reporting to management; assist with testing scenarios and validate results

Create deliverables such as process flows, wireframes, mockups and functional prototypes to effectively communicate design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors

Prepare and deliver client presentations

Advocate on behalf of Business to IT, and advocate on behalf of IT to Business

Become a Subject Matter Expert on a variety of packages and custom business

Go beyond just reading and understanding information, to making sense of it, and finding patterns for improvement

Isolate, replicate, and report defect sand verify defect fixes.

Conduct manual API testing and also using tools including Postman, SoapUI, and RestAssured.

Ability to build test cases, execute test cases, and log defects in Jira as needed

Ability to verify the responses of API requests to ensure that they are accurate and meet the specified requirements.

Ability to debug API issues and work with development teams to resolve them.

Other duties as required/assigned.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, Software Engineering or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience

5 years previous experience in Business/Systems Analysis and Quality Assurance

Solid experience in writing SQL queries

Proven success with UI design

Proven experience in eliciting requirements and testing

Experience in analyzing data to draw business-relevant conclusions and in data visualization techniques and tools

Strong problem-solving skills, results orientation and common sense

Creative solving of technical problems to ensure the ability to translate technical requirements and test plans

Basic knowledge in generating process documentation

Strong written and verbal communication skills including technical writing skills

Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables – ensures the ability to find the bad defects and bugs quickly

Ability to follow projects through to completion, adhering to tight timelines

Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Ability to learn new technologies quickly, step outside of personal comfort zone and handle unfamiliar challenges