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Reference #: R343 Position Summary

The Senior Business Analyst will serve in a leadership role for business, organizational and/or system requirement projects to ensure that they are analyzed, documented, elicited, planned for, reviewed, tested, and validated.

Primary Success Factors

Participates in all business analysis body of knowledge areas, including:

Analysis planning and monitoring; requirements elicitation and analysis; business requirements management; and communication and solution assessment and validation

As a senior level business resource, this role is sought out for complex and moderate risk projects that align with the skill set

Creates and/or provides input to project plans as they pertain to requirements

Leads requirements review sessions with subject matter experts and prepares thorough requirements documentation

Ensures that requirements diagrams, models and definitions are complete, consistent, and meet the needs of the project

Ensures that test conditions and test scripts are created and validated for user acceptance testing

Develops a sound knowledge of the Bank's macro business processes and related applications

Ensures compliance with policies, procedures, and regulations to ensure safe and sound business operations

Works with project manager / program manager to help with effort and cost estimation activities, project scheduling and planning, identifying risks and issues with projects, and suggesting mitigation alternatives

Performs quality assurance testing functions by:

Designing and executing detailed test plans and test cases to verify that the software meets requirements; identifying problems and defects that should be corrected prior to implementation; ensuring that the system delivers the required specifications;

Verifying that the system responds in an acceptable manner within the Bank's network environment; performing regression testing to verify that all pre-existing code still works properly;

Utilizing testing tools as necessary for defect tracking, automated testing, and simulated load testing.

Takes part in the weekly production support rotation for the initial triage of issues (and in some cases completes the resolution depending upon skill set and working knowledge of the application) and timely internal customer communication

Ensures that issue impact, resolution and root cause are thoroughly documented

Develops strong networking skills and relationships with business stakeholders

Required Experience

Bachelor's degree in information systems / business administration or equivalent work experience; Master's degree preferred

Seven or more years of experience in information systems, with an emphasis on the requirements life cycle, development and testing

Seven or more years of experience leading testing efforts, and/or dedicated staff to complete significant systems design, testing and/or implementation

Banking experience preferred

Knowledge of requirements analysis techniques

Experience in Agile methodologies (e.g. SAFe Scrum)

Strong analytical and interpersonal skills

Knowledge of current best practices, methodologies, standards, and approaches to Business Analysis

Excellent oral communication skills to lead meaningful and engaged review sessions with stakeholders

Effective networking skills and can build strong relationships with business (e.g., customer) stakeholders

Strong written communication skills

General understanding of SQL and databases is preferred

It is the policy of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh to ensure equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, disability status, genetic information, veteran's status, ancestry, sexual orientation or status as a parent as defined by applicable law. It is the Bank's policy to comply with applicable laws concerning the employ ent of persons with disabilities, including reasonable accommodation for applicants and employees with disabilities.