Business Analyst - Richmond, VA ; Hybrid- onsite remote

Business Analyst 4 – Yakshna Solutions, Inc. (YSI)

Yakshna Solutions, Inc. (YSI) is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman‑owned small business headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations. The Virginia Dept of Agriculture and Consumer Services is seeking a Business Analyst.

• Conduct project initiation activities to identify new problems and objectives related to computer applications and identify issues to be addressed in the Requirements Definition Phase.
• Conduct requirements elicitation and documentation for new applications or enhancements to current applications.
• Work with business and Information Systems staff to determine needs and produce an SDLC‑compliant Requirements Definition document that completely and clearly defines the requirements within the established time frame.
• Ensure documented requirements are clear, concise, complete, and meet established agency guidelines and standards.
• Assist with the development of applicable processes and templates as needed and directed by project leadership to ensure documentation is in a standard, easy to use, and repeatable format.
• Attend application design and development scrum meetings to represent business needs and requirements during design and development processes.
• Write and execute system test plans to verify the system meets all documented requirements.
• Perform manual testing on web applications and verify successful completion of test plans.
• Create testing plans to confirm that application meets requirements and design specifications.
• Document bugs and application insufficiencies with sufficient information to allow a developer to reproduce issues so they can be corrected.
• Assist with the development of user testing scripts for User Acceptance Testing.

• Extensive experience in business and systems analysis, requirements documentation, system development life cycle, and agile application development methodologies such as Scrum.
• Extensive experience defining and documenting user requirements from multiple sources, with the ability to prepare complex documents to effectively relay these requirements to both business users and developers.
• Extensive experience supporting application development, maintenance, and implementation, systems analysis and design, and business process improvement.
• Extensive experience defining and documenting business processes and mapping or developing processes in a new system.
• Experience manually performing testing on a web application.
• Considerable experience in testing complex systems to determine that business needs are met.
• Ability to write and execute test plans and scripts according to identified standards.
• Experience conducting meetings and documenting project decisions.
• Ability to identify and document bugs or insufficiencies in a web application.
• Ability to successfully participate in a development team to foster a team environment and effectively communicate both orally and in writing.
• Familiarity with web application software development projects using .NET (preferred).
• Familiarity with documenting requirements in Microsoft Team Foundation Server (preferred).

102 Governor St, Richmond, VA 23219 (Hybrid - four days onsite, one day remote)

Full-time, Contract – $90 K–95 K per annum with benefits.

US citizenship or Green Card holder required.

YSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.