Business Analyst

Title: Business Analyst
Location: Harrisburg - PA
Duration: 10 Months

All positions will have a 37.5-hour work week

Job Description
The position will function as a Business Analyst on an existing development team and is responsible for working with the customer as well as the development team under the direction of a team lead to ensure the system functions as desired. These responsibilities include testing, requirements gathering, documentation, and customer support.

• Experience in working on a Scrum Team or similar Agile Development Team.
• Experience with Automated Testing practices and software, such as Selenium.
• Strong organization and writing skills.
• Willing to assist with training, developing user guides or other Business Analyst activities when necessary
• Experience creating user stories, tasks, and bugs in Azure DevOps Studio, or similar software.
• Strong organization and writing skills.
• Communicates clearly and works with users and client as necessary.
• Experience in working on a Scrum Team.
• Experience participating in Facilitated Workshops for requirements analysis.
• Experience testing or documenting requirements related to accessibility of a software application.
• Knowledge of formal requirements gathering methodologies.
• Experience developing Business Requirements - project initiation document, what the needed achievements will be, and the quality measures.
• Experience developing Functional requirements - describe what the system, process, or product/service must do in order to fulfill the business requirements.
• Experience developing User (stakeholder) requirements - are a very important part of the deliverables, the needs of the stakeholders will have to be correctly interpreted. This deliverable can also reflect how the product will be designed, developed, and define how test cases must be formulated.
• Experience developing Quality-of-service (non-functional) requirements - re requirements that do not perform a specific function for the business requirement but are needed to support the functionality. For example: performance, scalability, quality of service (QoS), security and usability.
• Familiarity with testing accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1) preferred.

Required / Desired Skills:

• Experience with requirements gathering
• Experience supporting software in a Production Environment and handling customer reported issues
• Experience developing Business Requirements documentation
• Experience conducting full system testing with overall functionality
• Prior Commonwealth experience
• Experience in working on a Scrum Team or Agile environment