Job Title: Business Analyst V (Local Candidates Only)
Location: Richmond, VA
Duration: 6 Months
Job Description:
Local candidates strongly preferred
Responsibilities:
Work with the Product Owners 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 implement solutions.
Perform Quality Analyst functions such as defining test objectives, test plans and test cases, and executing test cases (including regression testing)
Assist Product Owners with testing the deliverables and coordinate User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications Required:
The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts.
5+ years' 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
Required/Desired Skills
Skill Matrix
| Skill Matrix |
| Technology | Years of Experience |
| Overall IT Experience | |
| Communication (1 - 10) | |
| The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts. | |
| 5+ years' 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 | |
| Experience developing test strategies, plans and scripts, conducting regression testing, documenting traceability, and managing UAT. | |
| Experience developing automated test scripts in tools such as Test Complete | |