What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Analyst position at Defined Software Development?
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We are looking for a Business Analyst with strong quality assurance experience to
work under the direction of the assigned Project Manager to achieve our clients goals and objectives.
Business Analyst responsibilities include, but may not be limited to the following:
1. Business Analysis:
a. Collaborate with project stakeholders and development team to define business
requirements and translate them into User Story, Use Cases documents, as
needed.
b. Analyzing business functional and nonfunctional requirements to help define and
design process flow diagrams and wireframes to meet the requirements.
c. Maintain the information accurately within the Requirement Traceability Matrix
(RTM) mapping the functional/nonfunctional requirements to use cases.
d. Work closely with the development team to ensure that business requirements
are correctly understood and implemented.
e. Analyze and document business processes, workflows, and system
requirements, as needed.
f. Review project high level requirements, understand and prepare for customer
JAD (Joint Application Development) session.
g. Conduct JAD sessions with customer, document meeting notes and action items
and update Use Case accordingly.
2. Testing:
a. Conduct manual testing of applications without reliance on testing tools, using
methodical approaches.
b. Develop, document, and execute comprehensive test plans and test cases based
on project requirements and approved Use Cases.
c. Perform different types of testing, including but not be limited to functional,
regression, integration, ADA/508, Security and smoke.
d. Identify and report bugs in JIRA, track them to resolution, and work with the
development team to resolve issues.
e. Develop, validate, and maintain User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Plan, Test
scenarios, UAT test cases, ensuring consistency and usability among all.
f. Performing test case scenarios for the upgraded system, prepare test accounts,
test data, following the agency's methodology of development testing, System
testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
g. Assist in user acceptance testing, document UAT Test results with defects
status.
h. Assist in performance and stress testing, develop
Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or
other related field or equivalent work experience.
Minimum of five (5) years of experience in gathering and documenting business requirements
(functional and non-functional) on full life cycle development projects.
Minimum of five (5) years of experience conducting JAD sessions, define business process
and document meeting notes and action items.
Minimum of five (5) years of experience in writing user story and use cases.
Minimum of three (3) years of experience creating comprehensive Test Plans.
Experience and knowledgeable of software testing methods and best practices.
Experience in creating and maintaining test plans, test scenarios, and test cases.
Experience in functional, regression, system integration, security, performance and user
acceptance testing.
Experience in testing to adhere to Section 508/ADA compliance in web applications.
Experience querying data in tables to verify data insert/update/delete to tables, to produce
quality testing results.
Strong attention to detail, quality minded with results oriented.
Strong analytical skills.
Excellent communication skills (oral and written).
Excellent analysis skills and successful discovery of system defects and issues.
Excellent problem-solving skills.
Excellent collaboration skills.
Knowledgeable of software development methodologies and processes.
Knowledgeable of Waterfall and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
Skill to perform analysis and troubleshooting of system defects and issues.
Ability to perform technical research of technologies and methods for testing the functional
and nonfunctional requirements.
Ability to work independently or cooperatively with team members.
Ability to apply technical expertise to test system solutions.
Ability to work with minimal supervision.
Accountable to the assigned Project Manager for the project.
Ability to work on the project components in the agreed schedule, to the correct technical
specification (i.e., defined to meet user requirements) within the approved budget and other
specified criteria.
Ability to test in the following environments:
o Java 21
o REST services built using Java Spring Boot
o Angular
o Webpages built using HTML, CSS, and JS/TS.
o MS SQL Server
o Stored procedures, triggers, views, etc.
o JBOSS 5.0 and higher
o LoadRunner
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or other
related field or equivalent work experience.
Experience and technical knowledge working with MS SQL and ORACLE database
environments.
Experience as a BA in J2EE developed software projects
Jira
MS-Visio
LoadRunner
Share Point
