Job Description:
Xede Consulting Group consists of talented IT consultants who are a different breed altogether. Forget any preconceived notions you might have about consultants. We’re not that – we roll up our sleeves and dive right in. Forget what you might think about IT people. We’re not geeks or know-it-alls. We’re solve-it-alls. We never met a challenge we didn't like – and we love solving them.
Officially, Xede people design and develop enterprise software applications for business. Unofficially, we get rid of client headaches. If you are interested in a challenge and taking that next step in your career then you will want to contact us today!
In addition to interacting with great people on challenging engagements, we offer the following benefits:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Vacations and Holidays
- 401(K) Retirement Plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts
Position Summary:
At Xede the Business Analyst provides analysis, authoring, editing, interpretation and understanding of business requirements as part of Xede’s professional services team. This analyst will capture and solidify the business (and functional) requirements, create additional documentation as appropriate, create the specifications as requested, participate in application reviews, develop user stories (and/or use cases) or other QA deliverables, train end users and provide other project or program communication documents.
This role’s work entails the gathering, identification and analysis of requirements for building new systems or new versions of existing systems and the production of multiple types of analysis documentation. Additionally the role has light project management and communication responsibilities, as well as some QA and training tasks.
Requirements gathering through interviews and other methods will result in production of business and functional level requirements as requested, user stories (or use cases), process flows, and other documentation as determined for the project. Interactions would be most frequent with project stakeholders across our clients’ companies; those deemed subject matter experts, and the Xede engineering project team(s) as well as client end users. Additionally, this role requires documentation of project outcomes, driving the articulation of requirements and research into post-production support requirements for QA and training purposes. Communication and documentation with and for clients, team members and subject matters experts are a critical component, in particular the creation of supporting documentation that describes the capabilities of the system, user training and other documents as necessary.
Responsibilities will include but not be limited to tasks associated with three respective domains: Web applications, cloud centric (Salesforce.com) applications or mobile applications. Specific tasks may include:
- Working with the department leadership to determine the initial project and or request schedule and resource/role allocation (if and when appropriate);
- Creation and management of business requirements per Xede standard templates and techniques;
- Performing day-to-day facilitation of new project development including participating in meetings, generating deliverables and managing relevant communication (internal and external) and otherwise assisting project team members;
- Collaborating closely with the stakeholders (internal and customer) and technical teams to identify and then document detailed requirements (including process flows, business rules, data sources, user stories and use cases, etc.);
- Creation of all other documentation as requested by the department director on a project-by-project basis;
- Ensuring timely feedback, from and to customers;
- Ensuring timely QA review, to programmers;
- Ensuring timely communication from and to internal customers – including request and/or status information on a regular and consistent basis;
- Facilitating client relationships and coordinating work between internal clients, external clients and IT resources (as appropriate and needed);
- Providing initial training on new systems upon deployment in a form and format to be determined at that time.
Minimum Requirements
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent experience
- Must possess a proactive and service oriented approach to solving project related problems
- Able to review project deliverables for completeness, quality, and compliance with established project standards
- Able to manage client relationships and negotiate changes to commitments/requirements
- Experience with formal software development life cycle and business analysis methodologies, particularly Agile-centric
- Ability to work well with technical and non-technical co-workers and clients
- Able to take strategic direction from management
Experience:
- Minimum of 2-5 years working in Information Technology environment
- Strong knowledge of business analysis and testing deliverables
- Experience in all phases of the systems development life cycle
- Extraordinary communication skill
- 5+ years of business analysis related experience or commensurate, demonstrated expertise
- 5+ years of consulting experience or commensurate, demonstrated expertise.
- 3+ years of facilitation and presentation experience or commensurate, demonstrated expertise
- 3+ years of business writing experience or commensurate, demonstrated expertise
Other:
- Occasional travel to and from client sites will be a part of this role
- The individual should be a "giver"
- The individual should go out of his/her way to help co-workers and others in the organization to solve their problems
- The individual should lead by example. Other people will follow one’s lead
- The individuals should be aware of the impact they leave by their actions, comments, and behavior.
- The individual should seek win-win situations and realize that it's more important for our client to win the ‘early’ issues related to a request or project as long as everyone can win in the long run