Quantexa Technical Business Analyst Academy (TBAA)

Key Details: 

Assessment: Knowledge Check / Tasks / Project Assessment
Duration: 5 weeks, full time
Max Time Allowed to Complete: 4 months
Format: eLearning & project work
Product version: 2.1.1
Training Credit Classification: Certification

Summary

The Quantexa Technical Business Analyst Academy is an in-depth program that gives learners the skills needed to become a Technical Business Analyst on a Quantexa project.

This updated version of the BA Academy, released on 2.1.1 of the Quantexa Platform, incorporates elements of the new Data Engineer and Scoring Engineer Academies and combines that with a detailed BA end-to-end project perspective.

This program has multiple knowledge checks throughout and checkpoint reviews to ensure progress of the learners. It also includes a final assessment at the end signed off by a Quantexa Business Analyst.

✔ Ideal Candidates for the Quantexa TBA program

Each of our certification programs is complex in nature and is best suited to individuals that have an associated set of prerequisite skills and experience that will support their ability to obtain the related certification.

Here’s the recommended criteria for the Technical Business Analyst Certification program.

• High technical capability to query and profile large data volumes
• Hands-on experience in designing technical solutions to problems.
• Capability and experience of deploying statistical approaches and methods.
• Deep understanding of data mapping and relational data bases.
• Experience in designing data processing, such as ETL and parsing, and handling data quality-related issues.
• Strong solution design experience.
• Background in classic SI project development, product management, functional definition, or UI design roles.
• Familiarity with the Agile development methodology, JIRA, and requirements backlog management.
• Experience of working on data-specific projects, with exposure to fraud, financial crime, customer insight or compliance-based environments that utilize detection or predictive models.
• When working on a project, ability to produce designs and solutions and own aspects of the project, such as:
  • Network design, including supporting models required,
  • Data selection and understanding,
  • Score design including initial validation and tuning,
  • Entity Resolution,
  • UI Design.

Modules include:

1. Quantexa Technical Foundations Program - Introduces the core concepts of our Platform, including Networks, Documents, Entities, and Entity Resolution, as well as some of its more technical components, namely Fusion and Assess. This Program also introduces Search, Investigation and Task components of the Quantexa UI.
2. Development Tools - Teaches the key tools that will be used during the development of a project. Teaches the common Scala and Spark commands used when interrogating the ingested data.
3. Smoke Test - Teaches the required steps to deploy the Quantexa Platform and confirm the correct setup of their environment.
4. Data Preparations: Teaches data considerations that a Business Analyst need to address before carrying out the ETL process to make sure it produces correct outcomes.
5. Data Ingestion - ETL Process: Covers in detail each of the steps in the Data Ingest – ETL Process. Dives into the aspects required for designing and building the appropriate Document-Entity Model with Fusion.
6. How to Read Fusion Files - Teaches a contextual approach to Fusion files and help Business Analysts locate and understand key stages of the configuration.
7. Resolver Configuration - Teaches a contextual approach to Resolver Config and help Business Analysts locate and understand all sections of the configuration.
8. Investigating ER Issues - Provides Business Analysts with tools and approaches to handling Entity Resolution issues. Teaches Business Analysts how to identify and analyze possible triggers for Entity health checks as well as how to detect common problems.
9. Scoring - Teaches concepts and approaches to Scoring and explains the Business Analyst’s involvement at each stage. Provides Scoring considerations and the requirements for capturing the Scoring business logic and Scorecard Tuning.
10. Network Generation - Teaches the core concepts of Network Generation and covers steps and approaches on how to build a Network for all the required Scores.
11. Academy Task - Assesses the learner's ability to design a Quantexa project, from end to end, that identifies the desired cases of risky behavior using the concepts covered in the previous modules.

Outcome:

On successful completion learners will be awarded the Quantexa Technical Business Analyst Certification (including the associated badge and certificate).

NOTE: If you wish to just review the content of the Quantexa Technical Business Analyst Academy, there is a Review pathway, which you can also request to be onboarded onto.