Must Be WI Resident || Business Analyst/Consultant

The individual in this position will: • Responsible for leading and facilitating communication with IT staff, business customers and other stakeholders from a wide array of backgrounds, implementation services, and support services to assist in the development, implementation and support of business intelligence. • Ability to document and speak competently to business objectives, gaps, needs and problems. Once documented, can leverage the knowledge and materials to help the IT team devise product and process solutioning that can be delivered to meet the defined needs of the business users. Works closely with the business users to document business processes. Focuses on specific business user needs such as how data is to be summarized, used in day-to-day operations and formatted in reports and dashboards. • Assists the IT team in the creation of ad hoc documentation, including but not limited to; enhancement business requirements, charter contributions, process mapping, data flow diagrams, issue papers, options documents, report/dashboard requirements, requirement traceability matrixes, security assessments, user stories, acceptance criteria, wireframes, source to target mappings and other documents as assigned. • Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs feasibility studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives in support of enterprise-wide business intelligence. Manages the balance between business requirements and user expectations. Strives for a deeper understanding of our customers’ business drivers. • Uses extensive experience as a liaison between users and technologists to drive requirements into design. • Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing processes: Confers with personnel of organization unites involved to analyze current business procedures, identify issues, and learn specific business requirements, such as how data is to be summarized, and formats for reports. • Works with the team leader and manager to determine a detailed and prioritized list of objectives and activities for current and future projects. • Responsibilities include project work enhancing existing/new processes through data sharing, configuration, report writing and metrics. • Troubleshoot and resolve issues efficiently. Identify potential technology improvements to be leveraged in support of the business. Assist in the creation and maintenance of test plans. Participate in special projects as required. • Demonstrates ability to manage competing priorities across multiple efforts at varying stages within the development lifecycle; keep up with fast-paced schedules; and learn new technologies quickly and effectively. Independently performs a variety of complicated tasks and relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. • Works independently and with team members to understand database structure, business process and the correlation between the two. Comfortable in a complex data environment and understanding data structures. • Ability to convey work and results to a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders from both technical and non-technical backgrounds. The candidate should have strong communication skills and should be a team player. Qualification Must Have/Nice to Have Experience Gather/elicit business requirements Must Have 8 yrs. Create and maintain standard artifacts (charter, BRD, RTM, fishbone diagram, testing scenario documentation, use cases etc.) Must Have 8 yrs. Expert SQL skills/ ability to navigate and query a relational database Must Have 5 yrs. Experience in requirements gathering for data warehouse projects Must Have 7 yrs. Experience in delivering end-to-end operational systems Must Have 5 yrs. Ability to navigate and query a relational database (Oracle) to develop reports Must Have 3 yrs. Data Analysis and Data mapping Must Have 7 yrs. Data Modelling Understanding Must Have 5 yrs. Documenting business processes and business Process Improvement Must Have 5 yrs. Standardized processes and procedures implementation Must Have 7 yrs. Ability to develop and implement quality assurance processes and procedures including test/use cases Must Have 5 yrs. Develop Mock up’s, Design Specifications, functional and non-functional specs Must Have 3 yrs. Participate in design reviews Must Have 4 yrs. Documenting business process Must Have 7 yrs. Testing methods/techniques including creation and execution of unit, system, and user acceptance plan Must have 7 yrs. Ability to perform testing of applications, facilitate testing by others, document results Must have 7 yrs. Experience in usability testing or equivalent user interface test measures Must have 7 yrs. Develop test plans and procedures Must have 7 yrs. Regression testing Must have 7 yrs. Writing test scripts using automation testing suites Nice to have Informatica (knowledge on ETL mappings) Nice to have Webi Nice to have Tableau Nice to have Top Required Skills: • Expert SQL skill/ability to navigate and query a relational database - Please don’t submit candidate without SQL experience (5 + years) • Candidate should be able to work on multiple projects per business priority • Looking for a strong practitioner with experience in business requirements elicitation and documentation (8 years), data mapping and data analysis (7 years), requirements verification, creating use cases, process flow diagrams, reporting and quality assurance as primary job responsibilities. • Creating and maintaining artifacts such as requirements traceability matrices (8 years) • Strong analytic and problem-solving skills