Business Analyst

Title: Business Analyst

Location with Zip Code: 1401 E Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219

Duration: 8 Months

Hybrid Role: 2 to 3 days onsite

Pay Rate: $71.00

Job Description:

• The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) 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. VDOT 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.
  

Role & 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.
• Client 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 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 Qualifications:

• 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, multi-module 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 Test Complete.

Desired Skills:

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification.
• Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking.
• Experience with automated testing tools such as Test Complete.
• Expertise with Power platform.

Required Skill:

• Delivering business and systems analysis artifacts such as Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology.
• Experience translating business and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories.
• Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development.
• Experience creating wireframes and prototypes (using applications such as Balsamiq).
• Experience with large, multi-module systems.
• Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server).
• Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM).
• Exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers.

About our Company: -

22nd Century Technologies, Inc., is one of the fastest growing IT Service Integrator and Workforce Solution companies in the United States. Founded in 1997, 22nd Century Technologies is a Certified National Minority Business Enterprise with 6,000+ people including 600+ Cyber SMEs nationwide supporting our customers in all 50 states, Canada, and Mexico. With HQs in Somerset, NJ and Mclean, VA, 22nd Century has 14 offices throughout the United States. As part of our unrelenting focus on quality and compliance, 22nd Century Technologies delivery is based on Certified Matured Processes including CMMI L3 Dev & SVC, ISO 20000, ISO 27001, and ISO 9001 quality processes. With a strong focus on the public sector, 22nd Century currently holds government contracts with 14 out of 15 Federal Executive agencies including DoD, 37 other Federal agencies, 50 States, 115+ Local agencies, and 37 School Districts. In the last three years, we have expanded our services to Fortune 500 and other commercial clients and currently support 80+ commercial clients.

Recognized among Best Company to Work For by Forbes, 22nd Century Technologies, Inc., consistently exceeds our clients expectations by focusing on their absolute satisfaction with jobs while keeping our employees motivated.22nd Century Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer" and s & all other parties authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply."

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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