Senior Business Systems Analyst

Job Title: Senior Business Systems Analyst Mainframe Modernization

Position Type: Contract

Location: Austin, TX (Remote), Equipment pick up required in person on 1st day of joining.

Interview Mode: MS Teams/In-person

Client is seeking a highly experienced Senior Business Analyst to support its Mainframe Transformation Program, a major modernization initiative involving emerging technologies, SaaS/COTS implementation, data migration, and enterprise data warehousing. This role performs advanced business analysis and works with limited supervision and significant independence. The Senior Business Analyst will collaborate with business units, technical teams, and stakeholders to ensure clear requirements, improved processes, and successful delivery of complex, multi-project solutions.

• Perform senior-level business analysis for large, complex software and hardware modernization initiatives.
• Use multiple techniques to gather, develop, and document business and functional requirements.
• Review, assess, and design improved business processes.
• Lead and validate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test planning, test case creation, and execution oversight.
• Support SaaS/COTS implementation projects, mainframe data migration, and enterprise Data Warehouse development.
• Produce high-quality documentation including traceability matrices, use cases, process diagrams, design specifications, and functional requirements.
• Facilitate collaborative working sessions with business users, cross-functional teams, and technical staff.
• Analyze production support issues, determine root causes, and define resolution requirements.
• Ensure adherence to established methodologies, standards, and quality processes.
• Provide guidance or oversight to team members as needed.
• Work independently with significant latitude for decision-making and problem-solving.

• 10+ years of business analysis experience on software development projects, including creation of project documentation.
• 10+ years of strong communication skills (written, verbal, presentation) and proficiency in MS Office and prototyping tools (Visio, Snag It, Adobe Illustrator, Axure).
• 10+ years hands-on experience with requirements elicitation, client engagement, use cases, traceability, prototyping, and data modeling.
• 10+ years facilitating workshops with business and cross-functional stakeholders.
• 10+ years analyzing production support issues, identifying root causes, and documenting fixes.
• 10+ years documenting design specifications and developing business process diagrams.
• 10+ years defining functional/system specifications and preparing complete documentation packages.
• 10+ years supporting UAT, training, and implementation activities.
• 8+ years of Software Quality Assurance or Software Engineering methodologies.
• 8+ years writing and reviewing test plans, test cases, and quality standards.
• 8+ years interpreting requirements and converting them to test procedures.
• 8+ years working with SDLC methodologies.
• 8+ years hands-on experience with JIRA (user stories, test cases, execution, reporting).
• 8+ years experience in smoke, regression, black-box, white-box, manual, and automation testing, including advanced Oracle/SQL query skills.

• Minimum Requirements:
  
  Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
• 10+ Required Business analysis experience on software development projects including the preparation of project related documentation.
• 10+ Required Strong interpersonal, collaborative, analytical, written/verbal/presentation communication skills in English (specifically technical writing); and well versed with MS Office suite of products and prototyping/screen mock-up tools such as Visio, Snag It, Adobe Illustrator, or Axure.
• 10+ Required Hands-on requirements elicitation; client management and technical documentation including traceability, use cases, prototyping, and data modeling.
• 10+ Required Facilitating interactive sessions with business and cross functional teams.
• 10+ Required Strong analys…