Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: North Chesterfield, VA

Status: Onsite

Yakshna Solutions, Inc., (YSI) is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman-owned small business enterprises, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, USA. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations. YSI is committed to serve its 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.

Client is looking for a senior Business Systems Analyst with 6+years of experience to perform complex business analysis and technical tasks such as project planning, process improvement, writing requirements, system design, data analysis, interface analysis, system testing, system rollout and system support. Focus is to enhance and support Client s biometric processes with a focus on processes that use Client s and LiveScan systems used for fingerprint capture.

These duties involve the following:

• Leads the overall review, analysis and evaluation of current business system
• Analyzes, recommends and implements process improvements
• Creates and evaluates user requirements and system needs
• Elicits requirements using various elicitation techniques such as Brainstorming, Data Mining, Document Analysis, and Interviews with users
• Produces requirements artifacts such as Field Definition Matrix, Business Rules, Interface requirements
• Performs gap analysis on existing requirements and systems
• Contributes to and drives a collaborative effort to support organizational change management
• Facilitates risk analysis
• Participates in the creation and subsequent reviews of project test plans
• Leads system testing including drafting test plans, tracking testing activities and documents final user acceptance efforts with business stakeholders
• Defines user roles and user access to applications; represents Client's interests with vendors and collaborates with them to help meet project needs; creates training materials and provides end-user training.

Required skills and experience

• Strong organization, administrative, analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated and able to develop rapport and positive working relationships with coworkers and the agency at large
• Able to produce requirements and related artifacts such as test cases, requirements traceability matrix, business rules, interface requirements
• Able to produce requirements and related artifacts such as use cases, activity diagrams, error validations and role-based system profiles
• Able to manage security access and user profile management
• Able to work collaboratively with various groups within vendors to ensure requirements are vetted and documented
• Able to analyze functional/nonfunctional system requirements
• Able to re-engineer business processes
• Able to identify how new applications and business processes will integrate with or replace existing business processes
• Proficient with Microsoft Products (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint)