Business Analyst

Date Posted: 01/31/2025

Hiring Organization: Rose International

Position Number: 477481

Job Title: Business Analyst

Job Location: Richmond, VA, USA, 23219

Work Model: Hybrid

Shift: Onsite 2-3 days/week

Employment Type: Temporary

Estimated Duration (In months): 5

Min Hourly Rate($): 55.00

Max Hourly Rate($): 60.00

Must Have Skills/Attributes: Agile, Business Analysis, Microsoft, MS Excel, Technical Design, Testing

Job Description

***Only qualified Business Analyst candidates located near the Richmond, VA area will be considered due to the role requiring an onsite presence ***

Preferred Certification:

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification.

Required Experience:

• Delivering business and systems analysis artifacts such as Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) (10 Years)

• Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology (5 Years)

• Experience translating business and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories (10 Years)

• Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development (10 Years)

• Experience creating wireframes and prototypes (using applications such as Balsamiq) (10 Years)

• Experience with large, multi-module systems (5 Years)

• Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server) (10 Years)

• Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM) (5 Years)

• Exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers (10 Years)

Preferred Experiences:

• Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking

• Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete

• Expertise with Power platform (2 Years).

The 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. Client 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.

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.

*** Local candidates only and required onsite 2-3 days/week. ***

Start Date: 02/10/2025

Location: Richmond, VA 23225 (Hybrid)

Interview type: Both Web Cam and In Person Interview

Contractor will be responsible for purchasing parking through client’s Parking Management Office or procuring their own parking.

• **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**

• **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**

Benefits:

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Rose International is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender (expression or identity), national origin, arrest and conviction records, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Positions located in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California will be administered in accordance with their respective Fair Chance Ordinances.

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Rose International has an official agreement (ID #132522), effective June 30, 2008, with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Employment Verification Program (E-Verify). (Posting required by OCGA 13/10-91.).