Job Description

RESPONSIBILITIES: • Work with the Product Owners to understand business processes and pain points • Develop expertise in the customers’ business applications • Conduct Root Cause Analysis to identify system gaps and deficiencies that require a business, technical or blended approach for resolution • 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 technical design specifications to be used by internal staff to develop the system modifications • Identify and group related user stories into Themes, document the dependencies and associated business processes • Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog • Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups • Propose alternative solutions that balance cost and benefit and adequately test a solution’s feasibility for business and technical compatibility • 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 (including regression testing) • Assist Product Owners with testing the deliverables and coordinate User Acceptance Testing

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: • The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts. • 5+ years 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 application requirements and user stories • Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with the development • Experience with large, multi-module systems  • Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server) • Experience with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) • 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 • Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking • Experience with automated testing tools such as Test Complete

REQUIRED SKILLS: • The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts. – Required 10 years. • 5+ years experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology – Required 5 years. • Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs – Required 5 years. • Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories – Required 5 years. • Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development – Required 5 years. • Experience with large, multi-module systems – Required 5 years. • Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server) – Required 10 years. • Experience with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) – Required 10 years. • The candidate must have exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers – Required 10 years. Experience developing test strategies, plans, and scripts, conducting regression testing, documenting traceability, and managing UAT. – Required 10 years. Experience developing automated test scripts in tools such as Test Complete – Highly desired.

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