Business Analyst

You are a result oriented team player who will focus on leading TickSmith's and clients' initiatives.  You will use your business expertise and understanding of technical concepts to establish relationships with project sponsors and subject matter experts in order to define solution scope and conduct requirements gathering exercises.

What you’ll be doing

• Elicit business requirements from external clients, lead requirements gathering
• Analyze the requirements to determine which modules needs modifications
• Prepare use cases and functional designs, lead walkthroughs to validate the documentation
• Understand client data and map it to TickSmith's internal data model
• Validate that business requirements are satisfied during the user acceptance phase
• Support the software development lifecycle from requirements through to delivery
• Define and perform QA scripts and acceptance tests
• Investigate issues and defects raised by business users
• Work with developers to correct issues and defects
• Mockup designs, diagrams & prototypes
• Build strong partnerships with clients and vendors to validate application design and achieve alignment and buy-in

Your skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including excellent documentation skills 
• A track record of excellence in team dynamics
• 3 - 5 years of experience in application software development
• 1 to 3 years of business analysis experience
• Strong client communications skills
• Knowledge of agile methodology

Assets

• Knowledge of financial markets (Canadian and US)
• Experience with Jira
• Experience with SQL
• Wireframe tool (Axure)

What you’ll get

• Competitive salary – We keep our ear to the market so we can reward your hard work and initiative
• Collaborative culture – You get to work with a great team of bright & dedicated individuals. You will get exposure to a variety of teams across the organization, no silos here
• Opportunity to make an impact – At this stage of the company everyone makes a huge impact on the company
• Opportunity to grow in your role and more - TickSmith's culture is to make sure that everyone can grow and experience as much as possible
• Flexible hours – Give and take is our way of life
• Great location – Located just out of downtown Montreal and easily accessible by public transport

About TickSmith Corp

TickSmith, with its TickVault platform based on Hadoop technology, is a leader in Big Data applications for the capital markets and financial services. As an industry innovator TickSmith is more than a place to work, it's a place where your thoughts, ideas and creativity will be heard and leveraged while working on cutting edge products and technology. Based in Montreal, we come together daily to collaborate, strategize and execute on our mission.