Title:Business Analyst (748993)
Location:RichmondVA
Client:Virginia Information Technology Agency
Note: This is a hybrid position. Candidate must be local Virginia.
Job description:
Responsibilities include analyzing problems; documenting business processes; developing requirements user stories and acceptance criteria; and managing requirements traceability and testing. VDOT is a fastpaced organization with very high standards for work quality and efficiency. This position is expected to handle multiple projects and remain flexible and productive despite changing priorities and processes. Ongoing improvement and efficiency is a part of our culture and each team member is expected to contribute to process improvements proactively.
Responsibilities:
Work with the Project team members and business stakeholders to understand business processes and pain points
Develop expertise in the customers business applications
Conduct Root Cause Analysis to identify system gaps and deficiencies that require a business technical or blended approach for resolution
Diagram current processes and proposed modifications using process flows context diagrams and data flow diagrams
Discover and document requirements and user stories with a focus on improving both business and technical processing
Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff
Utilize progressive elaboration; map stories to technical design specifications to be used by internal staff to develop the system modifications
Identify and group related user stories into Themes document the dependencies and associated business processes
Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog
Create conceptual prototypes and mockups
Propose alternative solutions that balance cost and benefit and adequately test a solution s feasibility for business and technical compatibility
Collaborate with staff vendors consultants and contractors as they are engaged on tasks to formulate detail and test potential and implemented solutions.
Perform Quality Analyst functions such as defining test objectives test plans and test cases and executing test cases (including regression testing)
Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress.
Required skills and Experience:
The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts.
5 years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology
Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs
Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories
Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development
Experience with large multimodule systems
Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word Excel Access Outlook Visio PowerPoint Project Server)
Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM)
The candidate must have exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers
Preferred:
CBAP and/or CSPO Certification
Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking
Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete
If you are: bright motivated skilled a differencemaker able to get things done work with minimum direction
enthusiastic a thinker able to juggle and multitask communicate effectively and lead then
we would like to hear from you. We need exceptionally capable people for this role for our client
so get back to us and tell us why you think you are a fit.
About Us:
firm in the Philadelphia region. TriForce specializes in IT staffing software development (web and mobile apps)
systems integration data analytics system automation cybersecurity and cloud technology solutions for government
and commercial clients. TriForce works with clients to overcome obstacles such as increasing productivity
increasing efficiencies through automation and lowering costs. Our clients benefit from our three distinguishing
core values: integrity diligence and technological excellence.
TriForce is a sixtime winner among the fastestgrowing companies in Philadelphia and a fourtime winner on the
Inc. 5000 list of the nations fastestgrowing companies.
The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts. 5+ years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs.
Any Degree in IT field or any related degree.