Senior Business Analyst Application Development

Short Description

• 11-15 years of experience. Business Analyst with proven professional experience in capture, verify and manage requirements and requirements traceability in support of product development, test and delivery.

Employment Type

• Contract w2/1099/C2C

Responsibilities

• The Application Software Development Team is looking for a Master-Level to Business Analyst whose primary responsibilities include Capture, verify, and manage requirements and requirements traceability in support of product development, test and delivery.
• Develop requirements, workflow and system analysis.
• Work with business stakeholders and users to develop software requirements and specifications for current system enhancements, new system functionality and new projects for use by customers.
• Analyze, design and evaluate computer systems to address and satisfy business requirements.
• Establish functional, non-functional and performance specifications.
• Develop effective guidelines and ensure all project documentation meets established guidelines.
• Conduct business and technical presentations for the customer.
• Provide innovation solutions to complex technical problems.
• Understand and communicate government policies and regulations, operational mission and goals for assigned programs.
• Collaborate with developers and QA to ensure business and system requirements are met, and to enhance functionality.
• Attend required training.
• Perform backup support outside of the primary position function as assigned.
• Candidate will be responsible for the implementation and management of business aligned IT services.
• Ensuring the application platform is of high quality, defects free and adheres to industry standards for development, testing and deployment methodologies.

Requirements

• Candidate must have at least five years of experience in software requirements analysis and documentation.
• Ability to work with all levels of client from end users to managers to obtain detailed system requirements.
• Excellent communication skills, the ability to facilitate working meetings, ask probing questions to elicit requirements and ability to understand the feedback to comprehend client responses to translate into documentable requirements.
• Critical thinking and analysis skills.
• Excellent writing skills to clearly document and communicate stakeholder requirements at various levels from high level to detailed.
• Experience in creating system and user documentation is also required.
• Working experience with Microsoft Office tools including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with modeling tools such as Visio, Balsamic and requirements management tools such as Contour or Jira is a must.
• Experience with Agile and SDLC methodologies.
• The successful candidates will demonstrate the following knowledge, skills, characteristics, experiences and/or abilities:
  • Interview and collaborate with stakeholders at multiple management levels to obtain requirements.
  • Document and manage software requirements.
  • Provide support for Developers, Test Team and client stakeholders in the creation and implementation of requirements.
  • Develop and update software documentation.
  • Develop and update User Guides.
  • Design Document/RTM drafts.
  • Develop software Release Notes.
  • Develop Process Analysis and Standard Operating Procedures.
  • Provide Process and system diagrams using available tools.
  • Provides strategic advice to the lead, management and customers of the client.
  • Capable of implementing programming standards that support a secure and defect free application.
  • Interacts daily with government clients in order to meet the technical requirements for new initiatives.
  • Works with Quality Assurance / Quality Control teams to insure the application remains secure and defect free.
  • Evaluates, designs, and implements accepted programming standards as they relate to the SNAP E&T application and infrastructure.
  • Defines and documents processes to be used by all application developers on the team.
  • Plans, researches, and recommends new equipment, software tools, and related technologies.
  • Uses monitoring and performance analysis tools to troubleshoot and isolate application performance issues.
  • Updates system and process documentation, produces user guides, ER diagrams, and SOPs as needed - Including Visio Network design drawings.
  • Other duties as assigned.
• The candidates will become an integral part of the ASD Team, making every problem associated to the platform a problem of their own and will demonstrate the required initiative and critical thinking abilities necessary to resolve all problems and challenges accordingly.
• This individual will be working closely with DC Government client and its partner agencies to ensure the agencies priorities are met.

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience

Behavior Characteristics

• Adaptable
• Analytical
• Goal-Orientated/Driven/Self-Starter

Skills Matrix

• Bachelors degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience
• Experience in requirements identification, use case and scenario capture, and development of visual tools, analytical tables, and presentations.
• Strong analytical skills, time management ability, detail-oriented; excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven experience in experience in a Business Analyst/ Business Data Analyst role
• Requirements gathering and documentation
• BA experience
• MS Office/PowerPoint experience
• Software Development Lifecycle experience
• Must have hands-on experience with business process analysis, redesign, workflows, and complex logic.
• Experience gathering and documenting system and business requirements
• Prior experience as a business analyst role for web-based case management, user portal, or data capture application for human services.
• Proven experience in Agile and SCRUM SDLC methodologies
• Proven experience in superior writing, communication, presentation skills, interpersonal skills and work cross-functionally with senior management
• Experience with modeling tools such as Visio and requirements management tools such as Contour or Jira is a plus
• Have the ability to work well in a team collaborating with developers, customers, project manager and quality test analysts.