VDOT Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Job Title

Business Analyst

Job type

W2 referral

Location

1401 E Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219

Relocation

No

Location Type

Hybrid

Duration

8 months

Number of Positions

1

Experience Required

11+ years

Notes

Job Description

Full Job Description -

*Local candidates only please

Responsibilities include analyzing problems; documenting business processes; developing requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria; and managing requirements traceability and testing. Partner 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 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

Qualification

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

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

Skill

Required / Desired

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, 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 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 Test Complete

Desired

Expertise with Power Platform

Desired

2 Years

Questionnaires -

Question 1: Commonwealth of Virginia security policies prohibit the use of offshore IT contractors. Do you attest to the fact that your candidate will physically reside within the US for the duration of the assignment?

Question 2: Please list the candidate's email address.

Question 3: In what city/state does your candidate PERMANENTLY reside?

Question 4: Does your candidate agree to attend an onsite interview, if requested? This is REQUIRED.

Question 5: Does your candidate agree to work onsite 2-3 days/wk.? This is REQUIRED.

Question 6: How soon after an offer can your candidate start?

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