Job Title: Business Analyst 4 (814469)
Location: 102 Governor St Richmond, VA 23219 (Hybrid 4 days onsite)
Status: Full-time, Contract
Yakshna Solutions, Inc., (YSI) is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman-owned small business enterprises, headquartered in Herndon, VA, USA. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations. YSI is committed to serving business communities as a leading IT vendor providing innovative, quality, and cost-effective IT business solutions and services.
We offer a competitive benefits package that includes the following: 401(k), health, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, paid time off, training, and professional development assistance.
Responsibilities
- Conducts project initiation activities to identify new problems and objectives related to computer applications and identifies issues to be addressed in the Requirements Definition Phase.
- Conducts requirements elicitation and documentation for new applications or enhancements to current applications.
- Works with business and Information Systems staff to determine needs and produce an SDLC compliant
- Requirements Definition document that completely and clearly defines the requirements within the established time frame.
- Ensures documented requirements are clear, concise, complete, and meet established agency guidelines and standards.
- Assists with the development of applicable processes and templates as needed and directed by project leadership to ensure documentation is in a standard, easy to use, and repeatable format.
- Attends application design and development scrum meetings to represent business needs and requirements during design and development processes.
- Write and execute system test plans to verify the system meets all documented requirements.
- Perform manual testing on web applications and verify successful completion of test plans.
- Create testing plans to confirm that application meets requirements and design specifications.
- Document bugs and application insufficiencies with sufficient information to allow a developer to reproduce issues so they can be corrected.
- Assist with the development of user testing scripts for User Acceptance Testing.
Required Skills and Experience
- Extensive experience in business and systems analysis, requirements documentation, system development life cycle, and agile application development methodologies such as Scrum.
- Extensive experience defining and documenting user requirements from multiple sources, with the ability to prepare complex documents to effectively relay these requirements to both business users and developers.
- Extensive experience supporting application development, maintenance, and implementation, systems analysis and design, and business process improvement.
- Extensive experience defining and documenting business processes and mapping or developing processes in a new system.
- Experience manually performing testing on a web application.
- Considerable experience in testing complex systems to determine that business needs are met.
- Ability to write and execute test plans and scripts according to identified standards.
- Experience conducting meetings and documenting project decisions.
- Ability to identify and document bugs or insufficiencies in a web application.
- Ability to successfully participate in a development team, help foster a team environment, and effectively communicate both orally and in writing.
- Preferred Qualifications: Familiarity with web application software development projects using .Net and documenting requirements in Microsoft Team Foundation Server.
