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BGI has the following 12 month contract opportunity available with our direct client located in New York, NY

201706-1826

6/15/2017

New York, NY

Consulting

Information Technology

• The Business Analyst is responsible to act as the liaison between the Business Users and the Technical teams working on implementing a new POS System.  
• The Business Analyst must have strong experience working in the Retail Environment and have worked on at least one end to end POS Implementation.  
• The individual must have strong skills around elicitation and documentation of business requirements and be expert in leading discovery and review sessions with the business.  
• They must also be well versed in working with technical teams to ensure that the proposed technical design will meet the business requirements.  
• They will also be responsible for building and driving an effective User Acceptance Test Plan 

• Work with business users to identify and document requirements.
• Perform gap analysis to determine if requirements are met by existing application or will require some form of enhancement.
• Identify alternatives to close gaps, making recommendations that best suit the business need and the long-term application strategy.  
• Translate these alternatives into an explicit list of required enhancements (process, reports, interfaces, conversions, extensions, workflow).
• Perform the detailed functional design of the application enhancements.  
• Facilitate business-owner reviews and obtain sign-off on functional designs.
• Work with other team members to ensure that the configuration and custom components meet application requirements and performance goals.
• Perform module set-up and configuration activities.
• Support the development team as it configures, builds, and tests the application enhancements.
• Plan, prepare, and execute quality assurance and user acceptance testing.  
• Engage business users during UAT and facilitate sign-off on test results.
• Support QA and UAT by implementing design changes to address defects found in testing.
• Follow good design practices to ensure application quality.
• Participate in unit test plan and other quality reviews. 
• Inform the Project Lead of any issues that may affect any other areas of the project.

• Minimum of 3 years experience working as a Business Analyst in a Retail/POS Environment
• Must have a deep functional knowledge of the POS and Store Systems ecosystem
• Experience working with business users throughout the SDLC, from analysis through design, build, test and deployment.
• Experience in leading design review sessions.
• Ability to translate requirements into functional designs.
• Ability to talk to both business users and technical team members in  order to properly convey messages in terms that they understand
• Ability to work independently with minimal assistance.
• Strong problem solving skills: able to logically break down a problem into smaller manageable parts to solve.
• Strong organizational skills.  
• Strong communication (verbal & written) skills