Business Analyst

A client of Innova Solutions is immediately hiring for a Business Analyst
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Position Type: Contract
Duration: 12 months
Location: Richmond, VA (Onsite)

• Act as the voice of the customer, working with IT project team members and business stakeholders to fully understand business processes, pain points, and customer needs.
• Develop expertise in customers’ business applications and organizational data management concepts, advocating for the customer throughout the SDLC.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis to identify system gaps and deficiencies that impact the customer and require a business, technical, or blended approach for resolution.
• Diagram current processes and propose modifications using process flows (BPMN 2.0), context diagrams, and data flow diagrams to ensure clarity for both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Discover and document customer‑centric requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria with a focus on improving business and technical processes.
• Decompose traditional requirements into Agile Epics and Features; create clear and concise user stories that are aligned with customer goals and are easy to implement by technical teams.
• Map user stories to technical designs for system modifications, ensuring that solutions meet customer expectations.
• Identify and group related user stories into features; document dependencies, ensuring alignment with customer priorities and business processes.
• Assist the Product Owner (Business Sponsor) in maintaining the product backlog with a customer‑first mindset.
• Perform Quality Analyst functions, defining test objectives, test plans, and test cases, while executing tests (including regression testing) to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Coordinate, facilitate, and document User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business stakeholders, ensuring that the customer is at the center of the testing process and keeping Project Managers/Scrum Masters informed of progress.

• VDOT Experience Required
• Experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts
• Proficiency in translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with a proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers
• Experience as an Agile Business Analyst with a strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology.
• Proven experience in organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs.
• Defining acceptance criteria and managing the acceptance process with development teams.
• Experience with Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) 2.0
• Advanced SQL experience for complex queries, database profiling, and troubleshooting.

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
• PMI - Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)
• PMI - Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
• Experience using Azure Dev Ops or Jira for agile software development and work item tracking.
• Experience with automated testing tools such as Test Complete, Cucumber, or Selenium.

Salary Range*: $58 to $63 Per hour.

* Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

Innova Solutions offers benefits (based on eligibility) that include Medical & pharmacy coverage, Dental/vision insurance, 401(k), Health saving account (HSA) and Flexible spending account (FSA), Life Insurance, Pet Insurance, Short term and Long term Disability, Accident & Critical illness coverage, Pre‑paid legal &  protection, Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).