Business Analyst

Seeking a Sr Business Analyst with 8+ years experience gathering requirements; 6+ years designing technical and business requirements; 4+ years with Agile/SCUM methodologies; and 3+ years of experience maintaining and organizing Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks using Azure Dev Ops.

The Business Analyst will partner closely with Product Owners, business stakeholders, project leadership, and delivery teams to support discovery, business process analysis, user acceptance testing (UAT), training readiness, and Azure Dev Ops (ADO) backlog management activities. This role serves as a bridge between business operations and technical delivery teams to ensure solutions align with business needs and are successfully adopted by end users.

• Develop process maps, 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

• Partner with Product Owners to refine and maintain product backlogs
• Assist in developing user stories and defining acceptance criteria by gathering, analyzing, and clarifying business requirements
• Provide recommendations on requirements traceability and business validation

• Coordinate UAT execution activities with business stakeholders
• Track test execution, results, defects, and acceptance decisions
• Support end-to-end business process testing and release readiness assessments
• Assist with documenting UAT evidence and acceptance recommendations

• Support training plans and end‑user training materials
• Create job aids, quick reference guides, and process documentation
• Support stakeholder readiness, communication, and adoption activities
• Facilitate training sessions and knowledge transfer activities
• Support backlog traceability between requirements, testing, and implementation
• Assist with ADO dashboards, reporting, queries, and documentation

• Create and maintain project documentation, requirements artifacts, process, training and reference guide documentation
• Document business rules, validation rules, and exception processing requirements
• Support project compliance with organizational delivery methodologies and governance requirements
  
  Maintain documentation repositories, knowledge bases, and project wikis

• 8+ years of experience gathering requirements from user
• 6+ years of experience designing technical and business requirement documentation
• 4+ years of experience with Agile methodology / SCRUM processes and ceremonies
• 3+ years of experience maintaining and organizing Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks using Azure Dev Ops backlog management tools (Kanban board, Sprint board, etc.)
• Document current-state and future-state business processes
• Develop UAT strategies, test scenarios, and business validation plans

• Experience using Azure Dev Ops for backlog and work item management
• Experience supporting Product Owners in Agile delivery environments
• Experience developing UAT plans, scenarios, and business validation strategies
• Experience creating training plans, training materials, and operational readiness documentation
• Experience facilitating business process analysis and workflow modeling utilizing tools like Bizagi
• Strong stakeholder facilitation, communication, and documentation skills
• Experience with large‑scale government, healthcare, financial, or enterprise system implementations preferred
• Experience documenting complex business program area integrations and data flows

This is a contract opportunity with Smith Johnson. As a contractor for Smith Johnson, you are eligible for medical, dental, life, disability. Smith Johnson pays for 70% of your medical and dental and 100% of life and disability. The contract is also eligible for PTO/holiday accrued monthly. You are also eligible for a 3% retirement matching plan. Smith Johnson believes in taking care of our contractors.