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2 Submittals - Market salary based on experience
VDOT - Business Analyst - Business Integrated Solutions Division
Hybrid Schedule - Candidate should be able to work on-site 3 days a week.
Describe candidate's experience with high-visibility projects and how they effectively communicated with non-technical stakeholders
Please describe the candidate's ability to navigate a very complex matrix organization with minimal supervision.
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) Business Integrated Solutions Division (BISD) is seeking a highly experienced Business Analyst to join our Business Analytics and Testing Support Team. This role requires strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to take initiative with minimal supervision. The Business Analyst will serve as the voice of the customer, ensuring that business needs are clearly understood, articulated, and documented. The Business Analyst will work in both Agile (Sprint) and traditional Waterfall methodologies for the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), contributing to ensuring that customers' requirements are met through the development and delivery of requested enhancements.
Key Responsibilities:
? Act as the voice of the customer, working with IT project team members and business stakeholders to fully understand business processes, pain points, and customer needs.
? Develop expertise in customers? business applications and organizational data management concepts, advocating for the customer throughout the SDLC.
? Conduct Root Cause Analysis to identify system gaps and deficiencies that impact the customer and require a business, technical, or blended approach for resolution.
? Diagram current processes and propose modifications using process flows (BPMN 2.0), context diagrams, and data flow diagrams to ensure clarity for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
? Discover and document customer-centric requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria with a focus on improving business and technical processes.
? Decompose traditional requirements into Agile Epics and Features; create clear and concise user stories that are aligned with customer goals and are easy to implement by technical teams.
? Map user stories to technical designs for system modifications, ensuring that solutions meet customer expectations.
? Identify and group related user stories into features; document dependencies, ensuring alignment with customer priorities and business processes.
? Assist the Product Owner (Business Sponsor) in maintaining the product backlog with a customer-first mindset.
? Perform Quality Analyst functions, defining test objectives, test plans, and test cases, while executing tests (including regression testing) to ensure customer satisfaction.
? Coordinate, facilitate, and document User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business stakeholders, ensuring that the customer is at the center of the testing process and keeping Project Managers/Scrum Masters informed of progress.
Qualifications:
? Minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and data analysis artifacts with a customer-focused approach.
? 5+ years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst with a strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology, including representing the customer during sprint reviews.
? Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs, ensuring prioritization based on customer needs.
? Proficiency in translating client and product strategy requirements into Epics, Features, and User Stories, ensuring alignment with customer goals.
? Strong data analysis background, organizational data management concepts, and SQL/database experience, particularly in supporting customer-driven solutions.
? Proficient in understanding and developing acceptance criteria to ensure test cases meet customers needs/acceptance.
? Experience with software development applications such as Azure DevOps and/or Jira.
? Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server).
? Experience with reporting systems, operational data stores, data warehouses, data lakes, and data marts.
? Exceptional written and oral communication skills with a proven ability to advocate for customers while working with a diverse set of peers and stakeholders.
Preferred:
? Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
? PMI - Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)
? PMI - Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
? Experience using Azure DevOps or Jira for agile software development and work item tracking.
? Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete, Cucumber, or Selenium.
Experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts
Required
8
Years
Proficiency in translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories.
Required
8
Years
Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with a proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers
Required
8
Years
Experience as an Agile Business Analyst with a strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology.
Required
5
Years
Proven experience in organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs.
Required
5
Years
Defining acceptance criteria and managing the acceptance process with development teams.
Required
5
Years
Experience with Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0
Required
5
Years
Advanced SQL experience for complex queries, database profiling, and troubleshooting.
Required
5
Year
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At Cook Systems, we don't just offer jobs we build futures. Our team is the heart of everything we do, and we're committed to supporting you with benefits that go beyond the basics. We want you to feel secure, valued, and empowered from the very beginning of your journey with us. When you join Cook Systems, here's what you can look forward to:
Your Health, Your Way: Choose from two comprehensive medical plans through Blue Cross Blue Shield, complete with dental and vision coverage. With access to one of the nation's largest networks, you'll get the care you need for yourself and your family wherever life takes you.
Peace of Mind, Every Step of the Way: Protect what matters most with life, critical illness, and accident insurance through Unum. Because your loved ones deserve security no matter what the future holds.
Flexibility for Life's Needs: Save money and plan ahead with a Flexible Spending Account and Daycare FSA through Navia, helping you manage healthcare and dependent care expenses on your terms.
Bridging the Gaps: Unexpected costs? No problem. Our Health Gap Insurance through Sunlife helps ensure you're covered when it counts.
Your Future Starts Now: Dream big with our 401(k) retirement plan through The Standard. After just six months, you will be eligible to participate, because your future deserves a strong foundation.
At Cook Systems, you're not just another employee you're family. Here, your ideas matter, your contributions shine, and your career will thrive. Together, we innovate, grow, and celebrate success every step of the way. Are you ready to be part of something bigger? Let's build the future together at Cook Systems.