Senior Business Analyst​/Lead Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst – Azure Dev Ops & UAT

The strongest candidate is a CBAP-certified Senior Business Analyst who can independently lead complex requirements and process-analysis activities while remaining closely connected to delivery, testing, and implementation
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You know how to challenge unclear requirements, uncover the real business need, model current and future processes, create development-ready requirements, maintain a disciplined Azure Dev Ops backlog, support UAT, and prepare users for successful adoption.

You are equally comfortable facilitating a stakeholder discovery session, writing detailed requirements, reviewing user stories with a Product Owner, coordinating UAT, analyzing a process gap, and creating the documentation needed to support a successful production release.

Work Location /

Schedule:

Onsite 3 days a week in Lansing, MI

Project or Role Overview:
The Senior Business Analyst will partner with Product Owners, business stakeholders, project leadership, and delivery teams to support discovery, business-process analysis, backlog management, user acceptance testing, training readiness, and implementation activities.

The role requires substantial experience with enterprise requirements analysis, Agile/Scrum delivery, Azure Dev Ops backlog management, process modeling, UAT, documentation, and business readiness
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• Facilitate discovery and requirements-gathering activities with business stakeholders.
• Analyze business needs and translate them into clear, actionable requirements.
• Develop current-state and future-state process maps.
• Create workflow diagrams and business operating procedures.
• Identify process-improvement opportunities and operational impacts.
• Identify and document manual processes, workarounds, and exception-handling procedures.
• Develop end-to-end business and system-interaction diagrams.
• Document business rules, validation requirements, and exception-processing logic.

• Partner with Product Owners to refine and maintain product backlogs.
• Gather, analyze, clarify, and document requirements supporting epics, features, user stories, and tasks.
• Develop and refine user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain requirements traceability across development, testing, and implementation.
• Provide recommendations regarding business validation and backlog readiness.

• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing activities with business stakeholders.
• Develop or support UAT strategies, scenarios, and business-validation plans.
• Track UAT execution, test results, defects, and acceptance decisions.
• Support end-to-end business-process testing.
• Assess business and release readiness.
• Maintain UAT evidence and support acceptance recommendations.

• Support development of training plans and end-user training materials.
• Create job aids, quick-reference guides, process documentation, and operational materials.
• Support stakeholder communication, readiness, and adoption activities.
• Facilitate training and knowledge-transfer sessions.

• Maintain and organize Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks in Azure Dev Ops.
• Support Kanban and Sprint board management.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, testing, and implementation.
• Assist with ADO dashboards, queries, reporting, and documentation.

• Create and maintain business and technical requirements documentation.
• Maintain process, project, training, and reference documentation.
• Support compliance with organizational project-delivery and governance standards.
• Maintain documentation repositories, knowledge bases, and project wikis.

• 8+ years of experience gathering requirements from users and business stakeholders.
• 6+ years of experience designing and documenting technical and business requirements.
• 4+ years of experience working within Agile/Scrum methodologies, processes, and ceremonies.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience maintaining and organizing Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks using Azure Dev Ops backlog-management tools, including Kanban and Sprint boards.
• Current CBAP…