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Job Title: Business Analyst
Location: Hybrid (3Days Onsite/Week) in Richmond VA 23218
Duration: 1224 Months Contract
Interview process: InPerson.
Contractor will be responsible for purchasing parking through Clients Parking Management Office or procuring their own parking.
Job Description:
The Clients Information Technology Division (ITD) is seeking a Business Analyst to work as a key member of Business Analytics and Testing Support Team for IT projects. This analyst will support teams working in Agile (Sprint) as well as traditional Waterfall methodologies for Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
Responsibilities include analyzing problems; documenting business processes; developing requirements user stories and acceptance criteria; and managing requirements traceability and testing. Our client 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 proactively contribute to process improvements.
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 solutions 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
Qualifications Required:
- 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
Amount of Experience:
- Delivering business and systems analysis artifacts such as Business Requirements Documentation (BRD) Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) Required 10 Years
- Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology Required 5 Years
- Experience translating business and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories Required 10 Years
- Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development Required 10 Years
- Experience creating wireframes and prototypes (using applications such as Balsamiq) Required 10 Years
- Experience with large multimodule systems Required 5 Years
- Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word Excel Access Outlook Visio PowerPoint Project Server) Required 10 Years
- Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM) Required 5 Years
- Exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers Required 10 Years
- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification Desired
- Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking Desired
- Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete Desired
- Expertise with Power platform
Employment Type
Full Time
