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Business Systems Analyst
Pearson
Bloomington, MN, United States
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Description
Pearson VUE (www.pearsonvue.com) is the global leader in computer-based testing for information technology, academic, government and professional testing programs around the world. Pearson VUE provides a full suite of services from test development to data management, and delivers exams through the world’s most comprehensive and secure network of test centers in more than 180 countries, where we validate the skills and knowledge of millions of individuals every year.
Pearson VUE is a business of Pearson, the world's leading learning company with global-reach and market-leading businesses. Pearson is listed on both the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO).
Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and a member of E-verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
The Position
The Business Systems Analyst is a key facilitator that works closely with internal and external stakeholders, program and product managers, and software development teams who displays a passion for leading and delivering business value through customer experiences, systems analysis and software development.
As an integral member of the software development team, the Business Systems Analyst leads both the effort of defining software requirements and ensuring those requirements are accurately developed. This role acts as the bridge between project stakeholders and software teams, is both the business requirements and functional specifications source-of-truth and is responsible for driving necessary business communication. The Business Systems Analyst ensures that requirements are written unambiguously, clearly and concisely such that they are implementable, understandable, testable and traceable by a software team. This role accomplishes these tasks through daily stand-ups, defining a product backlog in partnership with the product owner, leading story mapping exercises, creating user stories, and building low-fidelity prototypes.
A strong desire to understand current and future business needs at a detailed level is required to be successful in this role. Similarly, a technical background is useful.
The Team
This position is on a team that develops and maintains client and candidate-facing web applications that are mobile, accessible and internationalized for multiple locales. We have over 400 clients and 90% of our exam registrations flowing through the products we support, which provide functionality for candidates to register for and schedule exams, view score reports, launch exams, and more. We also have several client-specific applications that are tailored to one or two customers for their custom exam workflows. There is a continuous stream of complex and challenging work for a demanding set of clients with direct impact to the candidate experience.
We are looking for passionate and driven technologists who flourish in a highly collaborative environment where they can think outside the box, challenge the status quo, and innovate both products and processes. Agile is at the core of everything we do, so we are constantly inspecting and adapting and focused on making our teams better with every iteration. Everyone on the team is a full-stack enterprise developer, working with a broad portfolio of cutting-edge technologies, so you will be surrounded with like-minded people who work hard and play hard.
The Business Systems Analyst will:
• Demonstrate and have accountability for requirements management via a product backlog
• Communicate using a variety of methods such as text, diagrams, prototypes, story mapping, user stories and use cases
• Facilitate requirement elicitation sessions including product backlog grooming
• Prioritize the requirements and backlog according to business value in partnership with a product owner
• Negotiate and resolve requirement conflicts
• Work with the Product Owner to represent the customer to the team and answer questions
• Provide estimates for requirements and analysis activities as required
• Perform or assist with user acceptance testing
• Improve project processes or recommend improvements as appropriate
• Collaborate with other roles as a core member of a software team
Qualifications
Required Education & Experience
• Bachelor's degree in a Business, Information Systems, Computer Science discipline or equivalent technical work experience
• (2+ years) Business analysis experience with of web-based applications in an agile environment
• (2+ years) Agile methodologies (e.g. Scrum, Kanban, XP, etc.)
Preferred Experience
• Computer-based testing, certification, and licensing industry experience
• Agile software tools (VersionOne, Rally, JIRA, or similar)
Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
• Support multiple projects with different solution teams simultaneously
• Quickly learn new processes and tools, business domains and technical applications
• Think both technically and analytically
• Assimilate information, distill knowledge, apply experience and provide solution alternatives and recommendations
• Work well under pressure, plan and set priorities, adapt to change, and meet established timelines
• Develop effective relationships with internal and external contacts and work well within a team
• Bring a positive and collaborative energy to the team
• Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing