DataStaff Inc. is seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients located in Richmond, VA.
*This position is onsite.
Job Description: We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst with a technical background to support software development IT Projects at the client using a mix of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid Methodologies.
Responsibilities:
Perform all tasks related to business analysis, including problem/opportunity identification, elicitation of requirements, and management of stakeholders to meet business and project objectives.
Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
Facilitate collaboration and knowledge transfer between stakeholders and the development team
Work with other BSAs, Data Analysts, Business Architect, Development, and Data Governance teams to ensure the needs of these partners are incorporated into project requirements.
Develop user acceptance tests and facilitate their execution and business validation discussions and meetings.
Knowledge and Experience:
Exceptional interpersonal skills for leading, collaborating, and building strong team relationships with diverse teams on large projects
Extensive experience leading business and IT resources through the discovery and documentation of business and technical requirements
Ability to lead others to implement new approaches, systems, structures, and methods
Strong experience in developing, executing, and managing cloud-hosted SaaS implementation projects.
Experience with automated requirements/development management tools
Ability to analyze and document system processes.
Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to simplify and communicate complex issues and technical concepts to multiple audiences.
Knowledge of both Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid project management practices and when to apply each according to organizational and project needs
Ability to build & provide meaningful project health information and insights to business & IT Leadership.
Ability to accurately and effectively represent the project team in multiple forums and to all levels of leadership.
Ability to exercise and act on independent judgment
Ability to quickly learn and adapt
Highly motivated and self-directed
Skilled in the use of the Microsoft Office Professional Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio
Experience with Data Modernization & Enterprise Data Warehouse. (Preferred)
PMP Certification through PMI or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia Qualification Standards (Preferred)
Experience with VITA’s Commonwealth Technology Portfolio (CTP) system and ECOS process (Preferred)
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Preferred)
Required Skills:
4 Years - Strong experience in developing, executing, and managing cloud-hosted SaaS implementation projects
5 Years - Knowledge of both Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid project management practices and when to apply each according to organizational and project needs.
5 Years - Skilled in the use of the Microsoft Office Professional Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Visio.
4 Years - Experience with automated requirements/development management tools.
4 Years - Proficient in writing user stories.
Desired Skills:
3 Years - Technical background
3 Years - Experience in healthcare projects
2 Years - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 Years - Knowledge of JIRA or Azure DevOps tools
This opportunity is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.
Senior Business Analyst/Tester
Location:Raleigh, North Carolina
Remote:Hybrid
Type:Contract
Job#11856
DataStaff is seeking a Senior Business Analyst/Tester for a long-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients located in Raleigh, NC.
*This position is hybrid
Job Description: This hybrid role combines business analysis with software quality assurance testing responsibilities. This senior BA / Tester role will work with the business and other stakeholders to support the business process analysis. This role will work with multiple internal and external stakeholders to capture requirements, business process workflows and develop other BA artifacts using tools and templates. This role will also perform QA and Testing work and ensure our applications run smooth
Responsibilities:
Develop a strong understanding of the functions, uses and requirements for the system
Gather, analyze, and document business requirements from stakeholders.
Identifying and documenting current and future state process workflows
Developing documents such as: Business objects inventory list Reports, email notifications and Forms List, Email Notifications/Letters Inventory List, User Stories, Permission Matrix, Wireframes
Additional development of documents may include but is not limited to entity relationship diagrams, data dictionaries, system context diagrams
Preparing and maintaining project documentation and artifacts including analysis, reports and user documentation
Help business develop use cases
Translate business needs into functional specifications and user stories.
Collaborate with development teams to ensure requirements are understood and implemented correctly
Supporting required system go-live activities
Software Testing Duties:
Documenting gap analysis
Execute manual and automated test cases to validate software functionality, performance, and security.
Perform data migration testing to ensure accurate transfer of data between systems.
Conduct back-end testing, including validation of APIs, server-side logic, and integration points.
Write and execute database queries (SQL) to verify data integrity and consistency.
Identify, document, and track software defects using issue tracking tools (e.g., Jira, QC, ADO).
Collaborate with developers and product teams to resolve bugs and improve application quality.
Perform regression, integration, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
Create and maintain test plans, test scripts, and testing documentation.
Ensure compliance with QA standards and best practices.
Strong English comprehension and communication skills (spoken and written) for clear documentation and effective user support.
Ability to work autonomously and be a "self-starter"
Experience working in a fast-paced Agile Testing environment
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Demonstrated experience participating in the documentation of functional requirements and technical specifications for existing and new applications
Strong writing and communication skills
Collaboration and relationship-building with their team members and clients
Results-oriented individual with a very strong work ethic and must be able to demonstrate excellent negotiation, communication and problem-solving skills
Ability to work with customers as a member of cross-divisional work groups and maintain positive and productive relationships with customers, peers, and superiors
Ability to act independently with sound business judgment and thrive in environment with diverse communication styles
Ability to prepare and present oral and written documents clearly and concisely
Ability to manage complex assignments with multiple work streams and aggressive (and sometimes competing) timelines
Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) concepts and process
Knowledge of and experience with IT Service Management best practices and principles
Extensive understanding of SharePoint end user experience, sites, libraries, lists and groups
Public Health or other health systems experience is desired
Required Skills:
7 Years - Extensive knowledge of business system analysis techniques and testing methodologies
7 Years - Demonstrated experience in gathering business requirements and development of business rules and process flow.
7 Years - Proven experience with business process design, definition and/or re-design.
7 Years - Experience with Business Analysis methodologies and problem solving
7 Years - Ability to utilize Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, EXCEL, PowerPoint, Visio) Microsoft Project
Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written)
3 Years - Proficiency in writing SQL queries and understanding relational databases
Demonstrable analytical skills and an attention to detail.
Excellent creative thinking and problem solving skills Proactive, quality oriented, with demonstrated leadership and team building skills.
5 Years - Knowledge Creating Context Diagram and Functional decomposition
3 Years - Experience with manual and automated testing, data migration testing, back-end testing, validation of APIs, server-side logic, integration points
Desired Skills:
Experience working for State government
3 Years - Healthcare related experience
3 Years - Experience with DPH public health lab system and programs
3 Years - Familiarity with agile methodology, tools and frameworks, i.e. scrum, kanban
3 Years - Identify, document, and track software defects using issue tracking tools (e.g., Jira, QC, ADO).
3 Years - Experience with automated testing tools like UFT, Tosca, NeoLoad, Selenium.
This opportunity is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.