Senior Business Analyst - 15+ years - LOCAL TO VA
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Title: Senior Business Analyst
Location: Richmond, VA
Hybrid - 2-3 days onsite every week
Duration: 12 Months
Interview Type: Both Webcam and In Person Interview
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Location: Richmond, VA
Hybrid - 2-3 days onsite every week
Duration: 12 Months
Interview Type: Both Webcam and In Person Interview
Job Description
- 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.
- It 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.
- 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 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:
- 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
- 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
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