Business Analyst 4 - IN PERSON IVS REQUIRED

Novalink Solutions LLC•Richmond, VA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role requires a Business Analyst with extensive experience in business and systems analysis, requirements documentation, system development life cycle, and agile application development methodologies such as Scrum. The analyst will be responsible for conducting project initiation activities, eliciting and documenting requirements for new or enhanced applications, and ensuring these requirements are clear, concise, and meet agency guidelines. The position involves working closely with business and Information Systems staff, attending scrum meetings to represent business needs, and writing and executing system test plans. Manual testing of web applications, bug documentation, and assisting with user acceptance testing are also key responsibilities. The role is hybrid, requiring 4 days onsite and 1 day remote, with candidates preferably located in Virginia, especially Richmond or surrounding areas. Parking is not provided, and the first day requires an in-office visit for equipment and badge activation.

Requirements

Extensive experience in business and systems analysis, requirements documentation, system development life cycle, and agile application development methodologies such as Scrum.
Extensive experience defining and documenting user requirements from multiple sources, with the ability to prepare complex documents to effectively relay these requirements to both business users and developers.
Extensive experience supporting application development, maintenance, and implementation, systems analysis and design, and business process improvement.
Extensive experience defining and documenting business processes and mapping or developing processes in a new system.
Experience manually performing testing on a web application.
Considerable experience in testing complex systems to determine that business needs are met.
Ability to write and execute test plans and scripts according to identified standards.
Experience conducting meetings and documenting project decisions.
Ability to identify and document bugs or insufficiencies in a web application.
Ability to successfully participate in a development team, help foster a team environment, and effectively communicate both orally and in writing.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with web application software development projects using .Net.
Familiarity with documenting requirements in Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

Responsibilities

Conducts project initiation activities to identify new problems and objectives related to computer applications and identifies issues to be addressed in the Requirements Definition Phase.
Conducts requirements elicitation and documentation for new applications or enhancements to current applications.
Works with business and Information Systems staff to determine needs and produce an SDLC compliant Requirements Definition document that completely and clearly defines the requirements within the established time frame.
Ensures documented requirements are clear, concise, complete, and meet established agency guidelines and standards.
Assists with the development of applicable processes and templates as needed and directed by project leadership to ensure documentation is in a standard, easy to use, and repeatable format.
Attends application design and development scrum meetings to represent business needs and requirements during design and development processes.
Write and execute system test plans to verify the system meets all documented requirements.
Perform manual testing on web applications and verify successful completion of test plans.
Create testing plans to confirm that application meets requirements and design specifications.
Document bugs and application insufficiencies with sufficient information to allow a developer to reproduce issues so they can be corrected.
Assist with the development of user testing scripts for User Acceptance Testing.