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Business Analyst Category: Business Analysis (functional and technical)
Main location: United States, Louisiana, Lafayette
Alternate Location(s): United States, Tennessee, Knoxville
United States, Virginia, Fairfax
Position ID:J0926-0351
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Description: The ideal candidate for this position is a problem solver. As a Business Analyst, you will use your knowledge, skills, and abilities to solve organizational information challenges and will use your critical thinking skills to identify client requirements and translate those into detailed instructions for your development team to execute. The ideal Business Analyst also has strong writing and communication skills, ability to learn technical concepts, and is able to build relationships with both their team members and clients.
This position is located in our Lafayette, LA or Knoxville, TN or Fairfax, VA office; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.
Your future duties and responsibilities: A Business Analyst works as bridge between clients and developers to understand business needs and application requirements and translate them into actionable tasks for developers to deliver. Business Analysts are responsible for helping the client to define the problem they are trying to solve and ensuring the delivered software solves the problem.
Your responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
Gather, develop, document and validate business, functional and technical requirements.
Interact with client during JAD sessions.
Interact with advanced business analysts and solution developers to communicate and validate requirements.
Perform functional and integrated testing.
Prepare and maintain project documentation and artifacts including analysis, reports and user documentation.
Works with project managers, developers, and end users to ensure application designs meet business requirements.
Assists all phases of software systems programming applications.
Evaluates new and existing software products.
Author and prepare meeting minutes to be distributed to a variety of audiences
Author user stories, test scripts, and other Agile deliverables
Required qualifications to be successful in this role: Bachelor's degree in a business related field or information systems management preferred
Minimum 3 years work experience as a business analyst
Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle
Strong analytical and writing skills
Excellent communication skills
Ability to work effectively within a team environment under tight timelines
Ability to multi task and support multiple projects at once
Experience working with JIRA and Confluence
Desired qualifications/non essential skills required:
Experience authoring SQL queries will strongly benefit a candidate.
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $56,600.00 $139,300.00.
CGI Federal's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
. Competitive compensation
. Comprehensive insurance options
. Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
. Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
. Paid parental leave
. Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
. Wellness and Well being programs
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Skills: - Agile Testing
- Business Analysis
- Communication
- Jira
- SQL
