Business Systems Analyst

Business Systems Analyst

Location: Richmond, VA (hybrid) Duration: 11+ Month Type: Contract Both Web Cam and In Person Interview

Job Descriptions

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

Client and document requirements and user stories with a focus on improving both business and technical processing.

Translate business needs into detailed user stories, use cases, process flows, and other artifacts.

Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff

Strong Sense of ownership and accountability

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

Ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.

Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog

Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups

Create wireframes and prototypes.

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

Assist in validating system changes align with business requirements.

Schedule, facilitate, and document meetings with cross-functional teams.

Prepare agendas, capture key decisions and action items, and distribute meeting notes.

Serve as the liaison between business users, project managers, developers, and other stakeholders.

Provide regular updates on progress, risks, and issues.

Required Qualifications

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

Experience in managing projects or workstreams independently.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Ability to create low and high-fidelity wireframes to visually represent user flows and functionality

Experience building interactive dashboards and reports using Power BI Desktop.

Strong experience in writing complex Sql queries for data extraction, transformation and reporting.

Certified Scrum Master or Equivalent, experience running sprints & ceremonies.

Ability to manage small-scale projects or workstreams independently.

Experience using tools such as MS Project, JIRA, Confluence or equivalent.

Technical Skills & Tools (Required)

Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint)

MS Visio

Microsoft Project

Power BI / Tableau

Oracle SQL/ SQL Server

Figma or Balsamiq

Required Skills

Extensive experience extracting requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, use cases

Agile Business Analyst, strong understanding of scrum concepts and methodology

Experience translating business and product requirements into application requirements and user stories

Strong capability in documenting and maintain acceptance standards to guide testing and ensure deliverable quality

Exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and users

Experience creating wire frames and prototypes(using Balsamiq or Figma)

Expertise with Microsoft office products – Visio, word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project Server

Strong experience in writing complex Sql queries for data extraction, transformation and reporting

Experience building interactive dashboards and reports using Power BI Desktop

Experience in managing projects & Sprints as a Project Coordinator

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)

Certified Scrum Master

Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt or above)