Precise will be developing and implementing a system that is flexible and can support the unique needs of state governments. The Business Analyst will work directly with state program officials and other stakeholders to capture requirements for the platform. The Business Analyst will serve as a Scrum Master to the technical team and ensure that business requirements, acceptance criteria and test cases are clearly written and understood by the technical team.

Position Overview 

The Business Analyst is responsible for gathering and documenting system/business requirements in the form of user stories and use cases, perform requirement analysis and systems analysis, facilitating design and development of software solutions, assisting with the testing process, and helping quality assurance process.

Responsibilities

Responsible for stakeholder management, requirement elicitation, preparing estimations for business analysis tasks and deliverables, systems analysis, preparing functional specifications using user stories, acceptance criteria and use case narration. Responsible for ensuring unique business needs are properly translated to functional specifications and provide a system solution, assisting with the maintenance of project schedules and developing various status reports.

Job Requirements

• Plan out business analysis efforts, including stakeholder analysis, communication planning, and elicitation techniques
• Facilitate requirements meetings, interview sessions, brainstorming, documentation analysis, and other techniques as necessary
• Support customer meetings to understand current client business practices and business needs supporting requirements analysis
• Ensure that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards
• Validate requirements with business stakeholders and team members
• Collaborate with stakeholders and team members regarding requirements development and translation into software specifications
• Support traceability efforts from high-level business needs through functional validation
• Participate in requirements prioritization and backlog grooming sessions
• Write detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions and dependencies required to develop or modify applications
• Manage changes to baselined requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools
• Coordinate the stage gate review process including assembling document packages and working with team members to complete required documentation
• Works closely with developers and testers to ensure all requirements are understood and have corresponding test scripts
• Manage the documentation for multiple applications and releases across more than one development team while meeting deadlines
• Assist in maintaining concurrent project schedules
• Develop weekly and monthly status reports

Required Skills

• Six plus years of work experience in Information Technology as a Business Analyst and Tester in an Agile environment
• Facilitates meetings with business owners, technical leads, and other stakeholders
• Works as the Scrum Master for technical team coordination
• Captures business needs and develops corresponding functional solutions
• Facilitates development of technical requirements, user stories, and mockups to address business needs and work with developers and testers to ensure prototype solutions meet expectations.
• Develops Weekly Status presentations.
• Estimates testing levels of effort for requirements.
• Determines testing approach for break/fix and enhancement requests.
• Supports UAT prep efforts in conjunction with business owners/ users.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office tools
• MS Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint
• Proficient in formal software development life cycle processes
• Proficient with JIRA and/or Microsoft DevOps
• Demonstrated abilities as a driven, self-starter and quick study
• Story Creation
• Customization
• Report Generation

Desired Skills

• Experience in a government environment
• Agile development practices
• MS Visio

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

BS Degree from an accredited college in Information Systems, Business Administration or related discipline required. MS preferred. Pluses: Certified Analytics Professional (CAP); Certified Scrum Master (CSM)