Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst

100% On-site Annapolis, MD

Description:

Seeking a highly motivated individual with a positive can-do attitude and a passion for business analysis. The Senior Business Analyst will have a high standard of quality, performance and reliability. Their responsibilities include requirements gathering, documenting business processes and generation of comprehensive user requirements. The Senior Business Analyst is one of the key project stakeholders and a visionary that significantly influences their project team. Acts as the liaison between the applications development team and the business users to identify, assess, and document business requirements, analyze the impact of proposed solutions across the organization and develop use cases that explain/demonstrate business requirements/specifications to the development team.

Responsibilities:

Understand and document the business needs of our customers by conducting user analysis and interviewing subject matter experts, customers, and other stakeholders to identify and clarify requirements, and translate business needs into clearly defined and detailed requirements, and define user-focused specifications

Perform testing (creating test cases, executing them, tracing requirements to test cases, and reporting status

Write well-formed acceptance criteria for specific feature requirements

Create prototypes for user interfaces, including creating an initial concept drawing for new features

Work with the entire software development team to deliver the application throughout the SDLC using a mix of Agile and Waterfall development techniques

Ensure quality and distribution of project deliverables, status reports, meeting minutes, etc

Communicate project updates and status reports internally and externally

Ensures changes to the requirements are approved and documented

Attains sign-off from the business users on requirements and ensures the applications developers can translate the requirements into systems specifications

Assists project managers in managing scope

Assists in the creation and management of project plans

Education/Experience Requirements:

Experience supporting an SDLC using an Agile and Waterfall methodologies and working directly with software development teams

Demonstrated experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders at all levels, including technical consultants and end users

Ability to handle multiple assignments, prioritize tasks, and meet demanding timelines

Demonstrated technical aptitude with windows applications, web applications, and desktop applications and an understanding of basic software technical underpinnings

Strong knowledge of methodologies and tools related to business analysis

Ability to understand technical specifications

Clear, effective, and proactive communication skills (written and verbal)