Business Analyst
Lansing, MI | Work from home flexibility
Job Description
Title: Programmer Analyst VI
Location: Lansing, MI (2-days onsite, 3-days remote Hybrid Schedule)
Note: This is a W2 contract role – this role is NOT open to C2C, 1099, or 3 rd party candidates
Position Responsibilities:
- Provide content approval and validate estimates for the entire schedule of the project for the Project Manager to ensure compliance with the SUITE Project Management Methodology (PMM) and the Systems Engineering Methodology (SEM)
- Facilitate requirements gathering/meetings with clients to gather requirements (Traditional, Waterfall, and Agile) for all IT solutions and to identify impacted business processes and determine best process and IT solution integration
- Lead artifact reviews with peers, system specialists, Enterprise Security and other entities to ensure IT solutions and applications adhere to agency policies, standards or guidelines
- Participate in Solutions Design Team meetings and assist in creation of the Enterprise Architecture Solution Assessment (EASA)
- Responsible for development of training content and facilitate training
- Approve application-wide integration, performance, system or user acceptance test plans
- Validate test data and test results
- Differentiate between defects and new requirements and initiate change requests, as necessary
- Develop and monitor defect tracking logs and facilitate problem resolution
- Review and approve project management documents
- Serve as an Agency Services liaison to outside consultants
- Serve as a liaison between the business and the client concerning application requests, standards, requirements, and other program and project matters
- Develop and maintain an effective communication plans with vendors and agency staff relating to project level metrics
- Document and analyze business processes
- Develop system diagram and dataflow diagrams for Request for Proposal (RFP) documentation
- Collaborate with Product Owners to write clear and concise Agile user stories with acceptance criteria using BDD or Gherkin format (Given/When/then)
- Assist Product Owners in prioritizing the product backlog based on business value, risk and dependencies
- Conduct sprint ceremonies like backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint demo, and refinement sessions
- Develop and maintain Test Plans, Test Cases, and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)
- Perform Functional and Regression testing and facilitate User Acceptance Testing
Position Qualifications:
- 4+ years of experience as a Business Analyst
- 4+ years of Agile experience, including Scrum or Kanban experience
- Experience using Azure DevOps or similar tool for work item management and source control
- Experience with Microsoft tools, such as Excel, PowerPoint, or Visio
- Experience with Oracle or SQL Servers
- Strong experience working in Agile/Hybrid environments, translating business requirements into user stories with acceptance criteria
- Ability to break down complex business requirements into smaller user stories for development teams while ensuring that technical constraints, limitations, and dependencies are considered
- Experience working on projects involving vendor owned, designed, and hosted solutions
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Finance, Marketing, or other relevant field required
Note: This is a W2 contract role – this role is NOT open to C2C, 1099, or 3 rd party candidates
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