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Business Analyst

State Of Virginia
  • Not available, WA
    1 day ago

    Job Description

    Job Title: Business Analyst

    Location: Richmond, VA

    Position Type: Contract 

    Duration: 6 / 12 Month

    Work Type: Hybrid

    Rate: Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

    Job Description:

    Hybrid Schedule - Candidate should be able to work on-site 3 days a week.
    We are seeking a highly experienced Business Analyst to join our Business Analytics and Testing Support Team.
    This role requires strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to take initiative with minimal supervision.
    The Business Analyst will serve as the voice of the customer, ensuring that business needs are clearly understood, articulated, and documented.
    The Business Analyst will work in both Agile (Sprint) and traditional Waterfall methodologies for the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), contributing to ensuring that customers' requirements are met through the development and delivery of requested enhancements.

    Key Responsibilities:

    Act as the voice of the customer, working with project team members and business stakeholders to fully understand business processes, pain points, and customer needs.
    Develop expertise in customers’ business applications and organizational data management concepts, advocating for the customer throughout the SDLC.
    Conduct Root Cause Analysis to identify system gaps and deficiencies that impact the customer and require a business, technical, or blended approach for resolution.
    Diagram current processes and propose modifications using process flows, context diagrams, and data flow diagrams to ensure clarity for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
    Discover and document customer-centric requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria with a focus on improving business and technical processes.
    Decompose requirements into Epics and Features; create clear and concise user stories that are aligned with customer goals and are easy to implement by technical teams.
    Map user stories to technical designs for system modifications, ensuring that solutions meet customer expectations.
    Identify and group related user stories into Themes; document dependencies, ensuring alignment with customer priorities and business processes.
    Assist the Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog with a customer-first mindset.
    Perform Quality Analyst functions, defining test objectives, test plans, and test cases, while executing tests (including regression testing) to ensure customer satisfaction.
    Coordinate and facilitate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business stakeholders, ensuring that the customer is at the center of the testing process and keeping Project Managers/Scrum Masters informed of progress.

    Qualifications:
    Minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and data analysis artifacts with a customer-focused approach.
    5+ years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst with a strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology, including representing the customer during sprint reviews.
    Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs, ensuring prioritization based on customer needs.
    Proficiency in translating client and product strategy requirements into Epics, Features, and User Stories, ensuring alignment with customer goals.
    Strong data analysis background, organizational data management concepts, and SQL/database experience, particularly in supporting customer-driven solutions.
    Proficient in defining acceptance criteria and managing the acceptance process with the customer in mind.
    Experience with software development applications such as Azure DevOps and/or Jira.
    Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server).
    Experience with reporting systems, operational data stores, data warehouses, data lakes, and data marts.
    Exceptional written and oral communication skills with a proven ability to advocate for customers while working with a diverse set of peers and stakeholders.

    Preferred:
    Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
    PMI - Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)
    PMI - Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
    Experience using Azure DevOps or Jira for agile software development and work item tracking.
    Experience with automated testing tools such as Test Complete, Cucumber, or Selenium.

    ABOUT Ztek:

    Website:www.ztekinc.com

    Ztek Consulting Inc is a minority- and woman-owned business enterprise that leverages a unique blend of human talent, machine learning algorithms, and artificial intelligence to provide customized talent management solutions for clients. Ztek’s diversity-focused hiring models have proven successful, particularly in hiring veterans. The company's veteran-focused hiring and deployment program, Z-V.E.T, matches skilled veterans with clients' needs in various areas.

    Disclaimer:

    Ztek is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits any kind of unlawful discrimination and harassment. Ztek is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national origin, citizenship, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the statutes, rules, and regulations in the locations where it operates. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us at "To apply, click the Monster apply button" Please indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Ztek encourages all interested and qualified candidates to apply for employment opportunities. Ztek does not discriminate against applicants based on citizenship status, immigration status, or national origin, in accordance with 8 U.S.C. 1324b.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationNot available, WA

    Skills

    • Acceptance Testingunmatched
    • Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
    • Algorithmsunmatched
    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
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    • SQL Databasesunmatched
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    • ScrumMasterunmatched
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