Job Title - Business Analyst - 12+ years of experience
Location.- Richmond, VA
Work Type - REMOTE - Occasional travel to Richmond, VA
**local candidates strongly preferred due to onsite requirement
**candidate must be able to come to Richmond, VA occasionally
**candidate must have experience working in data management as an analyst
Our client is seeking a Business Analyst with experience in data analytics to work as a key member of Business Analysis and Testing Support team. 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 and data lifecycle; developing data requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria; and testing. This position is expected to handle multiple projects, and remain flexible and productive, despite changing priorities and processes. Ongoing improvement and efficiency are 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' datasets and data lifecycle
Profile source data; review source data and compare content and structure to dataset requirements; identify conflicts and determine recommendations for resolution
Conduct entity resolution to identify matching and merging and semantic conflicts
Elicit, record, and manage metadata
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 data models and architectures to be used by internal staff to facilitate master data management
Identify and group related user stories into themes, document dependencies and associated business processes
Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog
Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups
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
Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress
Qualifications
Required:
The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and data 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 dataset requirements and user stories
Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process
Experience with enterprise data management
Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)
Experience with reporting systems operational data stores, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts
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
Preferred:
CBAP and/or CSPO Certification
CDMP and/or CDP Certification
Experience using Team Foundation Server and work item tracking
Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete
Required/Desired Skills Skill | Required | Years Req | Years Used | Last Used |
Delivering business and systems analysis artifacts such as Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) | Required | 10 | Years | |
Experience with enterprise data management, data analysis, and data lifecycle | Required | 5 | Years | |
Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology | Required | 5 | Years | |
Experience translating business and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories | Required | 0 | | |
Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development | Required | 0 | | |
Experience creating wireframes and prototypes (using applications such as Balsamiq) | Required | 0 | | |
Experience with large, multi-module systems | Required | 0 | | |
Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server) | Required | 0 | | |
Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM) | Required | 0 | | |
Exceptional written and oral communication skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers | Required | 0 | | |
Extensive experience working in data projects as a business analyst | Required | 5 | | |
Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking | Desired | 0 | | |
Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete | Desired
Employment Type
Full Time
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