Business Analyst Mortgage Domain

Location: McLean, VA (Onsite)

Type: Contract / Full-time

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Business Analyst (8 10 years) with strong expertise in the mortgage industry to act as the primary liaison between business and technical teams. The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of mortgage processes, strong analytical skills, and hands-on experience in requirements gathering, SDLC, and API/Web Services-based applications. This role demands a customer-centric mindset and the ability to translate business needs into actionable technical requirements, supporting the entire product development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as an interface between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment.

• Gather, document, and validate business requirements and translate them into functional and technical specifications.

• Design process flows and data flows for mortgage-related systems and integrations.

• Prepare detailed technical specifications for APIs, web services, and integration components.

• Define project objectives, conduct feasibility analysis, and support planning and execution activities.

• Write user stories that reflect both business-driven functionality and technical capabilities.

• Support development teams, including systems integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT).

• Develop and document UAT strategies, test plans, test cases/scripts, and ensure proper execution.

• Provide constructive support to Product Owners and IT teams in product-related decision-making.

• Proactively encourage a customer-centric mindset and ensure alignment with organizational mission (e.g., Freddie Mac's goals).

• Apply Modern Delivery practices (Agile, Scrum, CI/CD mindset) to streamline workflows.

• Identify opportunities to improve processes, efficiency, and team performance.

• Work with tools such as Postman, SoapUI, or similar for API validation and testing.

• Participate in manual and automation testing activities as needed.

Required Skills & Experience

• 8 10 years of total IT/BA experience, with a strong focus on the mortgage industry.

• Proven experience across the end-to-end SDLC (requirement gathering UAT).

• Strong expertise in:

  • Requirement gathering & analysis.

  • Process & data flow design.

  • Webservices / API specification design.

  • Business & technical documentation.

• Hands-on experience in writing requirements for API-based applications.

• Proficiency with API testing tools such as Postman/SoapUI.

• Knowledge of manual and automation testing.

• Experience in Agile/Modern Delivery frameworks.

• Excellent communication, documentation, and analytical skills.

• Strong ability to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.

Good to Have

• Prior experience working with Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, or other financial/mortgage enterprises.

• Familiarity with regulatory compliance in mortgage industry.

• Knowledge of automation testing frameworks.