Business Analyst- RESTful API

System One; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

System One is seeking a skilled Business Analyst to support a backend engineering team designing RESTful APIs for a large e-commerce environment. You will translate business needs into clear, testable requirements and collaborate with Product Owners, Engineers, QE, and DevOps to deliver cloud-native services.

You will draft user stories, validate API contracts, participate in testing activities, and help ensure reliable, scalable API ecosystems while working within an Agile framework.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Business Analyst supporting backend or API-centric teams.
• Hands-on API testing and ability to understand API contracts.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design and integration patterns.
• Working familiarity with AWS cloud concepts and services (e.g., API Gateway, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM).
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
• Curious mindset with ability to use AI tools with increasing efficiency.
• Airline domain experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business and technical requirements and write high quality user stories for backend RESTful services.
• Define functional and non functional requirements, including performance, security, scalability, and observability.
• Break down epics into well defined, testable stories with clear acceptance criteria including what can be automated for testing.
• Grasp upstream and downstream dependencies and system architecture to sequence work most efficiently.
• Review and validate API contracts (OpenAPI/Swagger) to ensure clarity and alignment with business intent.
• Support API testing and validation using tools like Postman.
• Review logs, analyze and troubleshoot errors.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and support delivery through testing, defect triage, and release readiness.
• Collaborate with backend engineers, QE, DevOps, and downstream partners across integrated systems.

Skills

Backend/API knowledge

Analytical skills

Documentation

Communication

AI tools curiosity

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

OpenAPI/Swagger

Postman

Job description

Job Title: Business Analyst- RESTful API

Location: Dallas, Texas, United States

Job Type: Permanent Full Time

Description:

Position Description

We are seeking a skilled Business Analyst to support a backend engineering team that designs and builds RESTful APIs in a large e commerce environment supporting our client's customer facing applications. This role partners closely with Product Owners, Engineers, QE, and DevOps to translate business needs into clear, testable requirements that drive scalable, cloud?containerized and cloud native services.

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Analyze business and technical requirements and write high quality user stories for backend RESTful services
• Define functional and non functional requirements, including performance, security, scalability, and observability
• Break down epics into well defined, testable stories with clear acceptance criteria including what can be automated for testing.
• Grasp upstream and downstream dependencies and system architecture to sequence work most efficiently
• Review and validate API contracts (OpenAPI/Swagger) to ensure clarity and alignment with business intent
• Support API testing and validation using tools like Postman
• Review logs, analyze and troubleshoot errors
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and support delivery through testing, defect triage, and release readiness
• Collaborate with backend engineers, QE, DevOps, and downstream partners across integrated systems

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

• Experience as a Business Analyst supporting backend or API centric teams
• Hands on experience with API testing and ability to understand API contracts is required
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design and integration patterns
• Working familiarity with AWS cloud concepts and services (e.g., API Gateway, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM)
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
• Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills
• Curious mindset with ability to use AI tools with increasing efficiency
• Airline domain experience preferred