Business Analyst
*Local to Richmond, VA only please
*This is a hybrid position with 2-3 days/week onsite
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.
- The client is a fast-paced 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 mock-ups
- 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
Preferred Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- 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
Required Skills/Knowledge/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, multi-module 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, Desired 2 Years
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