Sr. Business Analyst

The primary scope of work for this contract is to procure an IT Business Analyst Contractor to provide business analysis and software quality assurance for the Turbo Plan Modernization project. This resource will collaborate closely with Product Owners, Scrum Team members, and stakeholders to ensure that business requirements are effectively gathered, documented, and translated into actionable user stories. This business analyst will also support software quality assurance activities to ensure the delivery of high-quality solutions.

Length: Through June 2027

Associate Vendors: We are accepting applications from candidates who are currently authorized to work in the US for any employer without sponsorship.

Role & Responsibilities

• Engage with business stakeholders to elicit and document requirements.
• Work closely with Product Owners to define and refine user stories with detailed acceptance criteria.
• Maintain and update the product backlog in coordination with the Product Owners to ensure alignment with business priorities.
• Analyze current business processes and identify areas for improvement.
• Develop process models and workflows to document as-is and to-be states.
• Provide recommendations for optimizing business processes and increasing efficiency.
• Conduct gap analysis to determine differences between current and desired functionalities.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, and stakeholders to validate functional requirements.
• Participate in technical discussions to ensure feasibility of requirements.
• Assist in the creation of prototypes or wireframes to support functional analysis and design discussions.
• Assist the Product Owner in reviewing and prioritizing backlog items.
• Communicate backlog prioritization decisions with the Scrum Master.
• Support the development and maintenance of schedules based on backlog priorities.
• Ensure backlog items are well-defined, appropriately detailed, and aligned with project goals.
• Design functional test cases and test scripts.
• Assist with the execution of test cases and test scripts.
• Document and manage bugs in close coordination with the technical team and product owner.
• Conduct functional testing and document defects.
• Coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business stakeholders.
• Ensure requirements traceability from user stories to test cases.

Required Qualifications:

• Staff completing the work must have a minimum of five (5) years of experience in business analysis, including requirements gathering, process modeling, and functional analysis for custom software solutions.
• Staff completing the work must have a minimum of five (5) years of experience in software quality assurance, including test planning, test case development, functional and regression testing, and defect management for custom software solutions.
• Staff completing the work must have a minimum of five (5) years of experience working within a Scrum or other Agile methodology framework, collaborating with Product Owners, Scrum Teams, and stakeholders.
• Staff completing the work must have demonstrated experience and expertise in using Azure DevOps for backlog management, user story tracking, test case management, and bug tracking.

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with public sector operations, particularly in the State of Washington, including knowledge of government processes and regulatory environments.
• Familiarity with State of Washington major IT project oversight requirements and processes.
• Experience working with environmental, scientific, or hazardous waste information systems, including regulatory compliance and data management solutions.
• Experience and familiarity with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and testing web applications for accessibility against WCAG 2.1 or later standards.
• Experience and familiarity with Power BI, .NET Core, and other Microsoft technologies, including their use in reporting, analytics, and enterprise application development.
• Experience in sustainability or ecology.