Business Analyst

CODAI Consults LLC; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CODAI Consults LLC is seeking a detail-oriented BA/QA professional in Cupertino, CA to translate business needs into actionable specs, design effective test cases, and drive UAT. You will collaborate with business users and implementation teams, analyze issues, and help deliver fixes in a fast-paced environment.

The role emphasizes user experience, communication, and cross-team coordination to ensure quality releases and accurate documentation for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• BA or related degree with strong customer focus.
• Experience creating effective test cases and performing black box testing.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks under pressure without direct supervision.
• Willingness to align technology with customer experience.
• Excellent written and oral communication.
• Strong teamwork and adaptability.
• Professionalism, energy, and sense of urgency.

Responsibilities

• Understand business requirements and document them clearly.
• Coordinate with implementation teams to clarify requirements and report issues.
• Troubleshoot and drive issues to closure with root-cause analysis.
• Provide support and create workarounds for internal system users.
• Develop and execute comprehensive test cases and perform UAT.
• Communicate risks and status to project teams.
• Create user training materials and release notes.

Skills

Domain knowledge

Test case design

Black box testing

Task management

User-centric BA

Communication skills

Teamwork

Professionalism

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SDLC

Job description

• Work closely with the business team to understand and document the business requirements.
• Collaborate and communicate with implementation team to clarify requirements and report issues through multiple channels of bug tracking system, email, chat, and meetings.
• Trouble shoot issues reported by end users, perform detailed analysis, determine root cause, replicate issues, and drive them to closure.
• Provide timely support for internal system users with data fix, user error correction, system knowledge sharing, and finding workarounds.
• Work closely with business users in many different organizations, both within and outside Apple to understand functional requirements and create effective test cases.
• Perform in depth user acceptance testing for releases and urgent system patches.
• Provide timely updates and elevate critical risks to project and management teams.
• Create system user training materials and document release notes.
• The ideal candidate will be motivated and comfortable working in an extremely fast paced environment with strong analytical and coordination skills to handle a variety of activities.

Key Qualifications

• Ability to learn a new business domain and build subject matter expertise in a short period.
• Proven experience creating effective test cases and performing black box testing.
• Demonstrated ability to complete multiple tasks under pressure without direct supervision.
• A BA who thinks of the customer/user experience first, then aligns technology as an enabler.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Excellent teamwork skills and highly flexible
• High level of professionalism, energy, and sense of urgency to “make things happen”.

Technical Skills Required

• An understanding of the components and considerations required when building enterprise systems (e.g., key architecture components, security, scalability, data quality, etc.)
• Experience with software development life cycle