NOT CONSIDERING 3rd party firms currently, direct applicants only please.

Aureon Consulting has a need for a Sr. Business Analyst for a long-term contract role. BA's in this environment are normally involved in multiple projects concurrently, to include Merger and Acquisitions driven initiatives and a variety of implementation projects. Prior experience serving clients in the RIA/Broker Dealer space REQUIRED . Must possess a strong combination of traditional BA skills AND have solid UAT testing experience.

Key Skills:

• SAFe Agile and waterfall methodology experience
• Ability to lead requirements sessions and document requirements.
• UAT coordination (create test scripts, document, and research defects, provide testing metrics).

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for requirement definition and user testing acceptance by partnering with IT
• Facilitates activities and workshops to elicit requirements; Writes BRD/User Stories, Business process flow diagrams
• Responsible for creating and maintaining requirements
• Ensures requirements and process flows are accurately documented
• Escalates gaps or issues to Product Owner and Project Manager
• Partners with Project Manager to define UAT testing activities and timeline; ensures there are test cases to validate all final approved requirements.
• Works with project team to develop test cases aligned with requirements and in partnership with the Product Owner
• Reports out on UAT status. Supports resolution of UAT issues
• Log UAT bugs discovered during UAT testing after review of validating bugs and to prevent duplicate bug entries
• Logs issues discovered during Production releases Reports out on UAT status. Supports resolution of UAT issues in addition to IT
• Tracks status and resolution of each bug
• Logs issues discovered during Production releases in addition to IT
• Creates and maintains the test strategy document in partnership with the Product Owner
• Create and maintain UAT Test Strategy and Test Scenarios
• Communicate UAT test metrics daily to project team
• Lead/co-lead UAT testing meetings

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, high school diploma (or equivalent) in combination with significant experience will be considered in lieu of degree
• Minimum of high school diploma or equivalent is required

Basic Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a member of an Agile software development team, preferably as an Agile Business Analyst, Product Owner, or Scrum Master.
• Experience in dealing with multiple enterprise-scalable projects and cross-functional teams, and ability to coordinate across teams in a large matrix organization.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience in Financial Services, Broker-Dealer Industry preferred
• Ability to demonstrate how to conduct story mapping and user story writing sessions to create a product backlog
• Ability to explain various ways to create user stories and document acceptance criteria
• Demonstrated skills facilitating remote meetings with participants across multiple locations
• Demonstrates excellent communication skills and has a customer focused mindset
• Ability to evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and break down high-level information into details
• Strong management, communication, technical and remote collaboration skills