Business Analyst

• End Client 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. 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.

Duties and 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