Business Analyst

Location: Richmond, VA - local candidates only | Within 50 miles 
Position Type: Hybrid, 2-3 days onsite per week
Contract Length: 5 months, likely extension

Position Overview:
The Business Analyst will support both Agile and Waterfall software development projects. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in requirements gathering, process analysis, testing, and collaboration, with a minimum of 10 years of business and systems analysis expertise, strong Agile methodology knowledge, and exceptional communication skills.

Required Skills:

• 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts such as Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• 5 years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology
• 10 years of experience translating business and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories
• 10 years of experience with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development
• 10 years of experience creating wireframes and prototypes (using applications such as Balsamiq)
• 5 years of experience with large, multi-module systems
• 10 years of experience with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)
• 5 years of experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM)
• Exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers

Preferred Skills:

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

Duties:

• 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