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Business Analyst

QBS Learning (www.qbslearning.com) is a leader in the education content development space focused
on creating formal and informal educational products for children. The company works with clients to
create ‘innovative’ products that work –help kids learn and teachers teach.

Our creative and innovative ability coupled with efficient execution has helped us build strong and
successful relationships with major education institutions across the world. We have a strong brand
presence and recognition across US, UK and India. Using a well-established global delivery
methodology, we create world-class products.

Over the years, Q2AMedia has built a reputation of providing high quality services and products to its
clients and is committed to maintaining the highest quality benchmark within the industry. Our clients
include Schools and International Educational Publishers such as: Cengage Learning, Disney Learning,
Pearson, Reader’s Digest, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Times Inc, Houghton
Mifflin Harcourt, Scholastics among others.

While book production continues to grow as a business line, Q2AMedia’s unique solutions also take
content beyond books. Our interactive product range includes custom solutions for eBooks, ereaders,
online portals, flash/flex gaming, interactive whiteboards, iPhone, iPad and Android application
development. Our Innovation Team continues to develop new delivery platforms and creative concepts.
Our strength in being able to conceptualize new ideas sets us apart from our competition. Our clients
recognize this as our core strength and engage us to work on their key initiatives. Our products and
services cater to early learning, K-12 and beyond.

We recently acquired a New York based company Bill Smith Group (www.billsmithgroup.com).

Please visit our website for more details about Company: www.qbslearning.com

Business Analyst Job Responsibilities:

. Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the business needs of stakeholders, be they
customers or end users.
. Collaborates with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
. Clearly identifies project stakeholders and establish customer classes, as well as their
characteristics.
. Conducts interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys,
site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
. Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-
project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
. Works with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.
. Researches, reviews, and analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-
gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these
processes.
. Assists in conducting research on products to meet agreed upon requirements and to support
purchasing efforts.
. Participates in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features and functions have been
enabled and optimized.
. Participates in the selection of any requirements documentation software solutions that the
organization may opt to use.
. Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility,
feasibility, and conformity to standards.
. Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements
specifications.
. Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner
that is comprehensible to developers/project team.
. Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to
developers and/or the project team.
. Develops and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement
specifications are correctly interpreted.
. Assists with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options, and
communicating these back to the business stakeholders.
. Manages and tracks the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and
redefine as necessary.
. Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements —
verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other
stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
. Provides guidance and/or instruction to junior staff members.

Work Hours: US Time Zone

Business Analyst Qualifications / Skills:

. Able to exercise independent judgment and take action on it


. Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills
. Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
. Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail
. Highly self-motivated and directed
. Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure
. Strong customer service orientation
. Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

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Education, Experience, and Licensing Requirements:
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. Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling,
verification, and methodology development
. Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including
planning, organizing, and managing resources
. Working knowledge of Windows office systems
. Excellent understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives

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