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System Analyst 3
NOVALINK SOLUTIONS LLCBusiness Systems Analyst working on IT projects for Virginia Department of Transportation. Analyzing requirements, documenting processes, and coordinating with stakeholders in an agile environment.
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Work with the Project team members and business stakeholders to understand business processes and pain points.
- Develop expertise in the customers’ business applications
- Conduct Root Cause Analysis to identify system gaps and deficiencies that require a business, technical or blended approach for resolution
- Diagram current processes and proposed modifications using process flows, context diagrams and data flow diagrams
- Discover and document requirements and user stories with a focus on improving both business and technical processing.
- Translate business needs into detailed user stories, use cases, process flows, and other artifacts.
- Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Utilize progressive elaboration; map stories to technical design specifications to be used by internal staff to develop the system modifications
- Identify and group related user stories into Themes, document the dependencies and associated business processes
- Ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.
- Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog
- Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups
- Create wireframes and prototypes.
- Propose alternative solutions that balance cost and benefit and adequately test a solution’s feasibility for business and technical compatibility.
- Collaborate with staff, vendors, consultants, and contractors as they are engaged on tasks to formulate, detail and test potential and implemented solutions.
- Perform Quality Analyst functions such as defining test objectives, test plans and test cases, and executing test cases (including regression testing)
- Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress
- Assist in validating system changes align with business requirements.
- Schedule, facilitate, and document meetings with cross-functional teams.
- Prepare agendas, capture key decisions and action items, and distribute meeting notes.
- Serve as the liaison between business users, project managers, developers, and other stakeholders.
- Provide regular updates on progress, risks, and issues.
Requirements
What you’ll need- The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts.
- 5+ years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology
- Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs
- Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories
- Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development
- Experience with large, multi-module systems
- Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)
- Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM)
- The candidate must have exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers
- Experience in managing projects or workstreams independently.
Benefits
Comp & perks- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
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Hard Skills & Tools
business analysisroot cause analysisuser storiesprocess flowsAgile methodologyacceptance criteriaQuality Analyst functionstest plansregression testingapplication requirements
Soft Skills
ownershipaccountabilitymanaging competing prioritiescommunication skillscollaborationfacilitationdocumentationproblem-solvingadaptabilitystakeholder management