Business Analyst – Mid-Level

Job Title: Business Analyst
Job Type: Contract
Work Arrangement: Iniatial Remote, Later Hybrid
Location: Columbus, OH

Job Summary

We are seeking a mid-level Business Analyst to lead requirements gathering, business process analysis, documentation, and solution validation. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and communication skills, experience working with business and technical stakeholders, and hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum, Azure DevOps or Jira, and SQL.

Key Responsibilities

Requirements Analysis & Documentation

• Lead requirements elicitation sessions with business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Analyze and document business processes, workflows, and system interactions.
• Develop business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure requirements are clear, complete, consistent, and traceable throughout the project lifecycle.

Solution Design & Validation

• Collaborate with architects, developers, testers, and stakeholders to ensure solutions meet business requirements.
• Support testing activities by developing test cases and validating system functionality.
• Coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Identify requirements gaps, risks, dependencies, and potential impacts and recommend mitigation strategies.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as a key point of contact between business users and technical teams.
• Facilitate requirements workshops, demonstrations, meetings, and stakeholder discussions.
• Clearly communicate complex business and technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Process Improvement & Mentorship

• Identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and efficiency gains.
• Mentor junior Business Analysts and share BA best practices.
• Contribute to business analysis standards, templates, documentation, and requirements-management processes.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or in a similar role.
• Strong understanding of business process modeling, requirements elicitation, and requirements documentation.
• Experience developing BRDs, functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and process documentation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Visio, and requirements management tools.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and/or Jira, including backlog management and requirements traceability.
• Strong experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Ability to write clear and effective user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Knowledge of SQL for data analysis, validation, and troubleshooting.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred / Additional Skills

• Experience supporting UAT and software testing activities.
• Experience working closely with developers, architects, QA teams, and business stakeholders.
• Experience identifying process gaps and recommending automation opportunities.
• Experience mentoring junior Business Analysts.
• Familiarity with project documentation standards and requirements traceability.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will be a 5+ year Business Analyst with strong requirements-gathering and process-analysis experience, comfortable working in Agile environments and bridging the gap between business stakeholders and technical teams. Strong Azure DevOps/Jira, SQL, Visio, user-story, UAT, and stakeholder-management experience is highly valuable.