VDOT Business Analyst - InfoPeople

Responsibilities

• Work with the Project team members and business stakeholders 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.
• 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).
• Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress.

Qualifications

Required:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems 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 application requirements and user stories.
• Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with 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).
• Exceptional written and oral communications skills and 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 TestComplete.

Skills

• Delivering business and systems analysis artifacts such as Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) - Required, 10 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, 10 Years
• Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development - Required, 10 Years
• Experience creating wireframes and prototypes (using applications such as Balsamiq) - Required, 10 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, 5 Years
• Exceptional written and oral communications skills and proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers - Required, 10 Years
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification - Desired
• Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking - Desired
• Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete - Desired
• Expertise with Power platform - Desired, 2 Years