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Business Analyst
Listed on: 11/20/2023 8:26:00 AMPSTLocation: Albany, NY 12234
Industry: Information Technology
Salary: Open
Description: L.J. Gonzer Associates is looking for individuals to join our pool of qualified candidates for potential assignment as a Business Analyst.Under supervision and guidance of the Project Manager / PMO, the Business Analyst will work alongside members of the Program Office(s) to perform the following:*Schedule and lead As Is and To Be sessions with program area(s) in order to understand current and future state business processes. *Document As Is and To Be states using a variety of business analysis techniques, including workflows, business process models, mockups, wireframes, SWOT, MoSCoW, etc, in order to meet future state business needs. *Iteratively review requirements and documents with program area(s) in order to elicit feedback and timely approvals from stakeholder teams. *Analyze business processes and functions across multiple programs and identify any gaps in order to ensure cohesive business and technical solutions. *Work comfortably in a hybrid Agile environment and actively manage requirements and change orders, and ensure testing needs are updated along the way. *Participate in design and architecture discussions, daily stand-ups, sprint planning sessions and other meetings. *Create/update user stories and acceptance criteria for all business, functional and non-functional requirements (F/NFR), including workflows, business rules, use cases, wireframes, activity & sequence diagrams. *Become subject matter expert (SME) and act as point of contact for all requirements questions and clarifications for all stakeholders: developers, testers, business team, vendors, management, PMO and end users. *Utilize database management knowledge to work on relational databases for writing queries, extracting data, and other data management functions. *Validate/verify requirements throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC) and ensure all changes are captured in requirements and user stories. *Become a subject matter expert (SME) for the proposed system and involved business processes/rules. *Support QA/Testing by developing timely test plans, detailed test cases, done/acceptance criteria, end-user testing and deliverables validation. *Ability to translate complex technical terms into business language and explain to non-technical teams, and vice versa. *Coordinate among business and technical teams to identify and resolve issues that arise during the project.
Requirements:
- 7 years of experience in requirements elaboration, business analysis and validation, and translating into requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria, using a variety of business analysis techniques (workflows, business process models, mockups, wireframes, SWOT, MoSCoW, etc.).
- 7 years of experience working in hybrid Agile environment collecting, updating and modifying business requirements iteratively, identifying functional and non-functional requirements including dashboards and reporting, and creating artifacts including flowcharts, business process models, workflows, and data dictionaries.
- 5 years of experience in all types of functional application testing (including functional, non-functional, regressions, integration, UAT, etc.) This includes writing and executing various types of test cases, testing procedures & cycles, defect tracking, communicating testing updates, and ensuring requirements-based validation/testing is completed prior to final deliverable sign-off.
- 7 years of experience in documenting requirements, acceptance criteria, epics, user stories creation, roadmap building, defect tracking, backlog management using Jira/Confluence or other BA and QA tools (please specify.)
- 7 years of experience in providing business analysis and testing support for legacy systems/data migration and infrastructure upgrade projects involving cloud-based commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, and/or custom development, configurations, troubleshooting incidents and quality assurance.
- 5 years of experience in transforming paper-based processes into electronic systems involving case/incident management, digital information gathering, storage, retrieval, and transmission among different teams' having data submission, review and approval processes.
- 5 years of experience in working with relational databases and structured queries in SQL, Oracle, etc.
- Business Analysis certification such as IIBA – CBAP, PMI-PBA and/or Scrum certification such as CSM, Agile Coach, PSM or Product Owner.