Technical Business Systems Analyst

Confidential; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential is seeking a Technical Business Systems Analyst to define, test, and validate enterprise technology solutions supporting business operations. The role leads requirements analysis, documents specifications, and executes SQL-based data validation and UAT coordination to ensure delivered solutions meet approved requirements.

The position requires hands-on SQL experience, strong knowledge of test planning and traceability, and the ability to drive cross-functional collaboration with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, business, or equivalent experience.
• At least 3 years of combined experience in business analysis, software quality assurance, test analysis, or related roles.
• Experience eliciting and documenting business requirements and converting them into testable acceptance criteria.
• Hands-on SQL experience for data analysis, validation, reconciliation, or test verification.
• Experience creating test plans, traceable test cases, defect documentation, and UAT support materials.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, clarify, document, and obtain approval for business, functional, and non-functional requirements; lead stakeholder workshops, process walkthroughs, and solution reviews.
• Document current- and future-state processes, data flows, gaps, acceptance criteria, and approved changes; act as liaison between business users and technical teams.
• Learn core operational systems, database structures, business rules, integrations, and key data flows.
• Write and execute SQL to profile source data, confirm relationships, validate business rules, and reconcile records across systems.
• Document data mappings, field specifications, transformation logic, expected behavior, error handling, and exceptions; analyze integrations with CRM, reporting, and third‑party applications.
• Review data models, stored procedures, reporting specifications, and integration designs; identify data‑quality issues and source limitations.
• Develop test strategies, plans, and reusable cases with clear steps, representative data, expected results, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain a requirements traceability matrix linking approved requirements to test cases and identifying coverage gaps.
• Execute data validation and reconciliation tests for integrations, conversions, and reports, including record counts and source-to-target comparisons.
• Coordinate system, integration, regression, performance, and UAT testing; work with developers on defect resolution.
• Manage defects from classification and prioritization through triage, retesting, resolution, and closure.
• Report test coverage, results, defects by severity, risk, and readiness; support evidence‑based sign‑off decisions.
• Maintain testing standards, templates, naming conventions, evidence practices, reusable cases, and regression suites; recommend practical requirements, testing, traceability, and automation tools.
• Guide business testers, translate technical scenarios into business steps, review vendor testing deliverables against requirements and contracted scope, and train peers and testers.
• Support data‑conversion and migration validation, including reconciliation against source systems.

Skills

SQL

Data analysis

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder workshops

Test planning

UAT coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, or equivalent

3+ years of BA/QA/test experience

Job description

The Technical Business Systems Analyst defines, tests, and validates enterprise technology solutions supporting business operations. The position leads requirements analysis and documentation, performs SQL-based data and systems validation, and coordinates quality assurance, traceability, and user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure delivered solutions meet approved requirements and business expectations.Key Responsibilities

• Elicit, clarify, document, and obtain approval for business, functional, and non-functional requirements; lead stakeholder workshops, process walkthroughs, and solution reviews.
• Document current- and future-state processes, data flows, gaps, acceptance criteria, and approved changes; act as liaison between business users and technical teams.
• Learn core operational systems, database structures, business rules, integrations, and key data flows.
• Write and execute SQL to profile source data, confirm relationships, validate business rules, and reconcile records across systems.
• Document data mappings, field specifications, transformation logic, expected behavior, error handling, and exceptions; analyze integrations with CRM, reporting, and third‑party applications.
• Review data models, stored procedures, reporting specifications, and integration designs; identify data‑quality issues and source limitations.
• Develop test strategies, plans, and reusable cases with clear steps, representative data, expected results, and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain a requirements traceability matrix linking approved requirements to test cases and identifying coverage gaps.
• Execute data validation and reconciliation tests for integrations, conversions, and reports, including record counts and source-to-target comparisons.
• Coordinate system, integration, regression, performance, and UAT testing; work with developers on defect resolution.
• Manage defects from classification and prioritization through triage, retesting, resolution, and closure.
• Report test coverage, results, defects by severity, risk, and readiness; support evidence‑based sign‑off decisions.
• Maintain testing standards, templates, naming conventions, evidence practices, reusable cases, and regression suites; recommend practical requirements, testing, traceability, and automation tools.
• Guide business testers, translate technical scenarios into business steps, review vendor testing deliverables against requirements and contracted scope, and train peers and testers.
• Support data‑conversion and migration validation, including reconciliation against source systems.

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, business, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 3 years of combined experience in business analysis, software quality assurance, test analysis, or a related role.
• Experience eliciting and documenting business requirements and converting them into testable acceptance criteria.
• Hands‑on SQL experience for data analysis, validation, reconciliation, or test verification.
• Experience creating test plans, traceable test cases, defect documentation, and UAT support materials.