Sr. Business Systems Analyst

CIBER is currently seeking experienced Sr. Business Systems Analysts for a long term contract position for our client in the Portland, OR area.  Job Requirements: Provide leadership in gathering, clarifying, & documenting requirements for application projects, service and support requests within the Aftermarket Parts and Service group Analyze and resolve support and enhancement requests for numerous applications Responsibilities include the facilitation of work throughout the entire IT life cycle, which includes working with IT architects to identify a technical solution, facilitating IT estimates and staffing needs, providing work oversight and customer status, and facilitating user testing Actively work with customers to analyze business needs, gather and document business and system requirements Heavy communication (verbal and written) with business system users, and IT staff Write specifications for changes required for support and enhancements Facilitate meetings and document outcome Perform business process analysis Facilitate user testing Facilitate IT work estimates Extensive understanding of business and technical side of each application assigned Document use cases and closely interact with developers and QA Understand IT processes and work within designated guidelines Perform Application Ownership Responsibilities Create test cases and test plans Test and review support and enhancement application/code changes Obtain approvals for support and enhancement changes from IT and business depts. Assign and monitor coding effort for support and enhancement changes Analyze and test environment changes for potential impact on each assigned application 24x7 On-call responsibilities Lead meetings for requirement gathering and issue resolution Keep application documentation current with changes and issues Provide expert level knowledge on each assigned application (both technical and business level), application interfaces, application environments, general impact analysis, and IT processes for project, changes, and support Analyze and test business changes for potential impact on each application Modify communication methods based on customer needs and personality Provide quick high-level estimates for changes within a day Perform database updates Analyze data discrepancies Create support tickets for situations that arise (such as customer calls, invalid test results outside areas that were changed) High level analysis to provide PSR (enhancements) initial estimates Attend meetings to represent application within IT and/or aid in business decisions Monitor and review other projects or enhancements that are making changes to applications within area of responsibility Maintain good working relationships with development staff Provide informal application training to our customers Work with the user education team to keep training and help documents up-to-date Tools/Applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, VISIO, MS Project SQL database display tools (like In Sync, SQL Server, and SPUFI) Basic Qualifications: Must have 5+ years experience in an IT analyst role Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills Must have 2+ years experience IT technical experience     Location: Portland, tl 97230 Status: Full Time, Temporary/Contract/Project Job Category: IT/Software Development Company: CIBER, Inc. Email: Apply by Email Reference Code: SrBSAParOrTs