What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior Business Analyst position at Precise Software Solutions?
Job Title:
Junior Business Analyst
Position Overview:
The Junior Business Analyst is responsible for gathering and documenting system/business requirements in the form of user stories and use cases, performing requirement analysis and systems analysis, facilitating design and development of software solutions, assisting with the testing process, and helping with the quality assurance process. Must be USC/GC/EAD with ability to obtain a government clearance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for stakeholder management, requirement elicitation, preparing estimations for business analysis tasks and deliverables, systems analysis, and preparing functional specifications using user stories, acceptance criteria, and use case narration.
- Assertive and able to take ownership of the project development lifecycle and its outcomes.
- Ensure business needs are properly translated to functional specifications and provide a system solution, assisting with project schedules and status reports.
- Plan business analysis efforts including stakeholder analysis, communication planning, and elicitation techniques.
- Support discussions on establishing and controlling application scope.
- Facilitate requirements gathering via meetings, interviews, brainstorming, and documentation analysis.
- Support customer meetings to understand client business practices and needs.
- Document and validate high-level business needs and nonfunctional requirements.
- Ensure requirements are complete, consistent, traceable, and verifiable.
- Validate requirements with business stakeholders and team members.
- Manage client relationships and expectations during requirements gathering.
- Collaborate with stakeholders regarding requirements development and translation into specifications.
- Support traceability from high-level needs through functional validation.
- Participate in requirements prioritization and decomposition.
- Write detailed user needs, program functions, and dependencies.
- Support development and refinement of requirements and identify gaps.
- Manage changes to baselined requirements through change control processes.
- Consolidate user stories and feedback throughout development.
- Write and review documents needed to support application release.
- Coordinate stage gate reviews including documentation packages.
- Work closely with developers and testers to ensure clear, testable requirements.
- Support business validation of functionality.
- Manage documentation for multiple applications and releases.
- Assist in maintaining concurrent project schedules and develop weekly/monthly status reports.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field highly preferred.
- One or more years of experience in IT as a Business Analyst and Tester, or similar roles.
- Experience facilitating meetings with business owners, technical leads, and stakeholders.
- Experience as a Scrum Master for technical team coordination preferred.
- Experience capturing business needs and developing corresponding functional solutions.
- Developed technical requirements, user stories, and mockups to address business needs.
- Executed detailed tests and documented test results.
- Experience automating tests for automation, 508 compliance, and performance testing preferred.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office tools: Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint.
- Proficient in software development life cycle processes and JIRA.
- Demonstrated abilities as a self-starter and quick learner.
- Experience in story creation, customization, and report generation.
Desired Skills:
- Experience in a government environment.
- Experience with Java, python, or Enterprise software platforms such as Salesforce products, Microsoft Power Platform, or Appian.
- Experience using JIRA and FDA systems.
- Familiarity with Agile development practices.
- Proficiency with MS Visio.
ABOUT US
Precise Software Solutions, Inc., an SBA 8(a) program participant, is an innovative small business with a proven record of success delivering quality services and solutions to government organizations. A CMMI Level 3 company, Precise serves as a trusted advisor to senior technology executives and helps government agencies enhance and expand their information technology capabilities. Precise helps their customers capitalize on the efficiencies offered by technological advancements and ensures the integrity of their IT systems and programs so they can perform their public mission more effectively. The company is known for delivering agile and innovative solutions and specializes in strategic consulting, system modernization and integration, digital transformation and experience, infrastructure and cloud implementation, and data management and analytics.
BENEFITS AND PERKS:
- Comprehensive Health Benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision) including High-Deductible Health plan where company pays 100% of the deductible for your family.
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Retirement Plan with 4% match and discretionary match at year end
- Paid Time Off (PTO): 15 days of PTO accrued per year; 7 holidays 3 Floating holidays; 2 Innovation days (paid training days)
- Short Term and Long-Term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Jury Duty leave
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Training and Development
- Wellness Incentives & Discount programs
- Employee Referral Program
- Annual Charity Donation Match
- Awards and Recognition
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Precise Software Solutions is committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status.
We are an inclusive organization and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. We expect every member of the Precise community to do their part to cultivate and maintain an environment where everyone has the opportunity to feel included and is afforded the respect and dignity they deserve.
Precise is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification), national origin, age, disability, military/veteran status, marital status, genetic information or any other factor protected by law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment, promotion, wages, benefits and all other privileges, terms and conditions of employment. The company is dedicated to seeking all qualified applicants.