BA/QA Analyst

Because leading businesses large and small trust Harvey Nash to deliver skilled, dedicated IT professionals, you can trust Harvey Nash to offer sought-after, worthwhile career opportunities. We are currently seeking to fill a BA/QA Analyst position for our client in Chicago, IL. We invite you to review the position requirements below and apply today if your skills match our need.

Location: Chicago, IL
Type: Contract

Responsibilities:
- Perform and coordinate the analysis and design of business systems
- Work closely with business partners and application development team in gathering and documenting project requirements
- Demonstrate complete understanding of business partners needs from both functional and systems perspectives
- Create and maintain formal project artifacts for requirements/use-cases, functional specifications, and test plans
- Provide first level functional support for assigned production applications and development projects
- Mentor junior team members
- Perform requirements management, from inception to implementation, including scope control and tracking
- Identify and escalate incomplete or ambiguous requirements that need project management and stakeholder discussion
- Create quality documentation including business requirements, functional Specifications, test plans, test cases, and status reports
- Review existing production processes and help improve / redefine systems processes and infrastructure required to support the application environment
- Provide functional assistance to the technical team in the resolution of production problems
- Communicate to business partners of system events such as outages, maintenance shut-downs, bug fixes, etc.
- Will empathize with business partners and show a keen interest in comprehending their problems and in proposing creative and alternative solutions
- Assist in quality improvement activities
- Executing test scripts
- Evangelize and champion quality

Requirements:
- Minimum 7 years experience in business and systems analysis and design, process modeling and re-engineering
- Expertise in Brokerage Industry specific analysis and design
- Participation from start to finish in at least 3 medium to large enterprise-level engagements, especially in a n-tier distributed environment
- Familiarity with relational database systems like DB2/UDB and Oracle-9i
- Strong and proven skills in creating quality documents such as business requirements / use-cases, functional specifications, test plans, test cases, and user manuals
- Working knowledge of UML and SQL
- Creative and thriving under pressure
- Ability to interface with business partners at various levels
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation

Nice-to-have skills:
- Experience in delivering projects in the area of Securities Registration and Licensing
- Project Management experience
- Familiarity with different development methodologies
- Experience with automated testing tools

About Harvey Nash:
- Global recruitment and talent solutions company
- Placing thousands of skilled business professionals every year
- Operations in the United States, Europe and Asia
- Headquartered in the UK and traded on the London Stock Exchange
- Over 25 office locations worldwide
- Dedicated to providing talented professionals with top career opportunities

In addition to great career opportunities, Harvey Nash is proud to offer its valued contract professionals a number of benefits including health insurance and 401(k) matching. Apply now if your skills and experience are a good match for the position and remember this: At Harvey Nash, the door to opportunity is always wide open. Experience: Desired skills: . To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here