Business Analyst

Position is located in Durham, NC - Hybrid Role 3 Days a Week

Summary:

As a Business Analyst, you will be a key team member in a highly collaborative team continually working on a variety of complex and challenging projects. You will be an integral team member within our Agile software development team, responsible for product business analysis, design, working with the implementation team, and performing acceptance testing in a high-performing, experienced team. You will use industry best practices while producing high-quality solutions in a collaborative, agile, results-driven environment. You will also be responsible for helping to design and maintain mission-critical applications as necessary. In this role you will be expected to continually grow, assist other team members and contribute to process improvement activities.

Responsibilities:

Gather project specifications, Create business cases. Translate high-level business needs into detailed requirements for new capabilities and change request/enhancements on existing capabilities,

Analyze data to determine business problems, trends, or opportunities for process improvements,

Create/execute test cases, Provide root cause analysis and corrective action plans,

Verify delivery of customer needs and ensure quality delivery.

Builds organizational and platform knowledge in one or more disciplines to advance professional track career.

Create and maintain deliverables such as business vision, requirements and personalization to different clients, and user interface design.

Participate in the full software development life cycle by actively participating on Agile scrum teams

Work closely with both internal and external stakeholders to identify product requirements.

Effectively communicate with team members, customers, partners and management, including assisting with or conducting requirement walkthroughs and sprint reviews, reporting project status, enabling vendor solutions and providing accurate and concise documentation.

Assist execution of user acceptance testing, documenting process, requirements, and enabling execution

Ability to analyze business processes, identify needs for advanced analytics solutions, and convey those insights to non-technical stakeholders

Strong understanding of process design and execution, ability to identify ways to integrate advanced analytics solutions into existing business processes

Working knowledge of analytics governance processes, stakeholder management, project management / agile delivery

Required Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work related work experience

Familiarity with Agile software development practices

1-3 years minimum as a product business analysis

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Requirement solicitation skills

Process design skills

Experience using JIRA.

At present, the company does not provide sponsorship for OPT, H1B, or other visa programs for this position

What to expect from Pearson

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Job: TECHNOLOGY

Organization: Corporate Strategy & Technology

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Req ID: 15066