Business Analyst
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Job Location:
Columbus, NE - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
20 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Prefer local or within a 2 hour drive
The Business Analyst (BA) plays a critical role in bridging business needs and technical solutions. This position provides program-level technical assistance to state and contracted IT professionals throughout multiple phases of assigned projects.
The BA will gather and analyze information from diverse sources-including business stakeholders technical teams and legacy documentation-during project inception and throughout the development lifecycle. Success in this role requires strong analytical facilitation verbal and written communication skills as well as an inquisitive mindset that identifies opportunities to improve quality. The BA should help guide the organization toward seeing the big picture envisioning innovative solutions and ensuring applications are designed for usability and value.
Collaborate in an Agile Scrum environment supporting iterative development and continuous improvement.
Work with Azure DevOps to organize and track work across Epics Features User Stories Bugs and Issues.
Develop and refine user stories to meet the Definition of Ready (DoR).
Use a variety of tools such as MS Excel Word Visio Lucidchart and PowerPoint to create supporting artifacts such as Project Vision Documents Journey Maps Business Workflows Templates and Mock-ups based on interviews with technical teams business stakeholders and subject matter experts.
Assist the Product Owner in writing requirements defining acceptance criteria and managing user stories throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
Work closely with the development team to clarify requirements address questions during development and validate that delivered code meets acceptance criteria.
Support Quality Assurance (QA) processes by assisting in test case creation and ensuring adequate coverage of user stories mapping user tests to traceability matrices and applying QA standards during pre-production testing.
Support Release Management during release cycles to validate deployments and serve as a subject matter expert on business rules and system functionality to support troubleshooting and validation during releases
Experience as a Business Analyst in an Agile development environment using Azure DevOps JIRA or similar Agile lifecycle management tools
Required
9
Strong understanding of Agile principles backlog refinement and user story lifecycle management
Required
9
Excellent analytical communication and facilitation skills.
Required
9
Ability to create detailed documentation and visual artifacts to support development efforts
Required
9
Proficiency in tools such as MS Excel Word PowerPoint Visio Lucidchart or other diagramming software
Required
9
Certified Scrum Master
Highly desired
Certified SAFe Product Owner or worked at an organization implementing SAFe
Highly desired
