Business Analyst

As one of New York’s first design and technology consulting businesses, IconNicholson has helped our clients engage, delight and interact with their customers through award-winning digital media since 1987. Our vision is to continue to innovate through great design, intuitive technology, savvy business and smart people.

We are currently looking for a Business Analyst to join us fulltime.

Responsibilities of our Business Analysts include:
– Ownership, elicitation and documentation of Business needs and Business Requirements
– Perform cost/benefit analyses for any suggested changes in the target organization
– Define metrics to benchmark and monitor the performance of the business solution
– Ownership, delivery and documentation of Functional Requirements and Specifications by applying experience and understanding of object-oriented design and use case modeling
— Liaise between UX, Strategy and Technology teams to ensure quality solution that delivers business results.
— Act as requirements go-to person during the development an build phase of projects
– Initially identifies and subsequently defines required tests and co-lead test planning
— Participate in testing and lead the effort to identify requirement and solution gaps and resolutions
— Monitors test coverage and evaluates the overall quality experienced when testing the target test items
– Evaluate the performance of the business solution, identify opportunity for improvement and refine targets for future releases.

Required Skills and Experience:
– The ideal candidate has 4+ years of industry experience with at least 2+ years in a Business Analysis role.
– Demonstrate very strong analytical and problem solving skills.
– Ability to design standards for Business/Technical Analysis with regard to customer approaches, software development methodology and life cycle
– In depth working knowledge on how to team up with both user experience lead and a technical architect to create solution for end user or admin users
– Must be intimately familiar with object oriented design method and software development processes
– Should demonstrate deep exposure and working knowledge on mainstream web solutions such as web analytics, content management, web search, campaign management, ecommerce etc.
– Must be detail oriented, organized and thorough and have extremely high respect for quality control.
– Strong communication skills, internally and externally, and being able to be the communication bridge between user experience and technology.
– An inquiring mind
– Experience in a variety of testing efforts (desirable)

If you love the interactive space, appreciate a culture where your work is respected, your opinion counts and you are surrounded by the best and the brightest, please get in touch.

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Thank you for your interest and we look forward to hearing from you.

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