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Job Title: IT Business Analyst (Hybrid)
Location: Richmond, VA
Duration: 6+ Months
Job Type: Corp-Corp / 1099 / Contract W2
Rate: $60/hr on C2C
Client: State of Virginia
Interview Type: Webcam
Note: Candidate MUST be LOCAL to be considered for the position
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.
Responsibilities:
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.
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
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, 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 TestComplete
Required/Desired Skills
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 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
0
Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking
Desired
0
Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete
Desired
0
Expertise with Power platform
Desired
2
Years
Recruiter Details:
Recruiter Name: Mehul at gsksolutions dot com
Contact Number: Eight three two-Two one nine-Three eight eight three
About GSK Solutions Inc:
GSK Solutions Inc is a leading information technology (IT) Services Company that specializes in providing complete consulting solutions and staff augmentation to its clients. We provide on-time, on-budget, and quality service to our clients and consistently meet their expectations. We are known for our superior execution on a sustained basis.
GSK has been in the business of providing both commercial and custom product development services, including, Information Security, Software Development, Consulting and IT Audit. GSK implements highly critical and time-sensitive projects for their Fortune 500 clients located across the country.
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