Senior Business Analyst (Hybrid Onsite)

Job Title:

 Senior Business Analyst (Hybrid Onsite)

Location:

Lansing, MI

Duration:

12 months

Pay Rate:

$80/hr on C2C / 1099 all inclusive (OR) $75/hr on W2

Interview Process:

Round 1: Virtual (MS Teams)

Round 2: In-person (mandatory availability)

Notes :

Important Notes:

Local to Michigan

Must live within 90 minutes of Lansing at submission

Candidate must agree to hybrid schedule (onsite 2 days/week, starting Day 1)

No remote-only submissions

Prescreening questions must be answered by candidate and attached to submission.

candidates authorized to work without restrictions will be considered.

Job Description

• Provide content approval and validate estimates for the entire schedule of the project for the Project Manager to ensure compliance with the SUITE Project Management Methodology (PMM) and the Systems Engineering Methodology (SEM).

• Facilitate requirements gathering/meetings with clients to gather requirements (traditional waterfall and agile) for all IT solutions and to identify impacted business processes and determine best process and IT solution integration.

• Lead artifact reviews with peers, system specialists, Enterprise Security and other client entities to ensure IT solutions and applications adhere to client and agency policies, standards or guidelines.

• Participate in Solutions Design Team meetings and assist in creation of the Enterprise Architecture Solution Assessment (EASA)

• Responsible for development of training content and facilitate training.

• Approves application-wide integration, performance, system or user acceptance test plans.

• Validate test data and test results.

• Differentiate between defects and new requirements and initiate change requests as necessary.

• Develop and monitor defect tracking logs and facilitate problem resolution.

• Review and approve project management documents.

• Serves as Agency Services liaison to outside consultants.

• Serve as a liaison between client and the client concerning application requests, standards, requirements, and other program and project matters.

• Develop and maintain an effective communication plan with client, vendors and agency staff relating to project level metrics.

• Document and analyze business processes.

• Develop System diagram and Dataflow diagrams for Request for Proposal (RFP) documentation.

• Collaborate with Product Owner to write clear and concise agile user stories with acceptance criteria using BDD or Gherkin format (Given/When/then).

• Assist Product Owner in prioritizing the product backlog based on business value, risk and dependencies.

• Conduct sprint ceremonies like backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint demo, and refinement sessions.

• Develop and maintain Test Plans, Test Cases and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).

• Perform Functional and Regression testing and facilitate User Acceptance Testing.

Top Skills & Years of Experience

Experience & Skills: Required

• A bachelor’s degree in a business-related field such as business administration, information technology, finance, or marketing (or a similar field).

• Strong experience working in Agile/Hybrid environments, translating business requirements into user stories with acceptance criteria.

• Ability to break down complex business requirements into smaller user stories for development teams, while ensuring that technical constraints, limitations and dependencies are considered.

• Experience working on projects involving vendor owned, designed and hosted solutions.

• Excellent verbal and written communication.

• The preferred candidate must possess and demonstrate strong troubleshooting.

Experience & Skills: Preferred

• 4+ years Business Analyst or similar experience

• 4+ years Agile experience

• Experience using Azure Devops or similar tool for work item management and source control.

• Recent experience of working in an Agile development environment, e.g. Scrum or Kanban

• Experience with Microsoft tool such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio

• Experience with Oracle or SQL Servers

Recruiter Details:

Kris : 

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