What are the responsibilities and job description for the VDOT Business Analyst position at Cyber Resource?
Engagement Type
Contract
Short Description
VDOT Business Analyst 2 ROLES
Complete Description
- Local candidates only please
- Candidate must also be able to work onsite 23 days / week.
- Contractor will be responsible for purchasing parking through VDOTs Parking Management Office or procuring their own parking
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 fastpaced 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 mockups
Propose alternative solutions that balance cost and benefit and adequately test a solutions 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 multimodule 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
Years
Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology
Required
Years
Experience translating business and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories
Required
Years
Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development
Required
Years
Experience creating wireframes and prototypes (using applications such as Balsamiq)
Required
Years
Experience with large multimodule systems
Required
Years
Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word Excel Access Outlook Visio PowerPoint Project Server)
Required
Years
Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM)
Required
Years
Exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers
Required
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 TestComplete
Desired
Expertise with Power platform
Desired
Years
Questions
Description
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 candidates 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 23 days / wk This is REQUIRED.
Question 6
How soon after an offer can your candidate start
Key Skills
SQL,Agile,Business Analysis,Visio,Waterfall,Business Process Modeling,Requirements Gathering,User Acceptance Testing,Business requirements,SDLC,Systems Analysis,Data Analysis Skills
Employment Type : Remote
Vacancy : 1
