Senior Business Analyst – Application Development

Short Description

11-15 years of experience. Business Analyst with proven professional experience in capture, verify and manage requirements and requirements traceability in support of product development, test and delivery.

Contract w2/1099/C2C

• The Application Software Development Team is looking for a Master-Level Business Analyst whose primary responsibilities include Capture, verify, and manage requirements and requirements traceability in support of product development, test and delivery.
• Develop requirements, workflow and system analysis.
• Work with business stakeholders and users to develop software requirements and specifications for current system enhancements, new system functionality and new projects for use by customers.
• Analyze, design and evaluate computer systems to address and satisfy business requirements.
• Establish functional, non-functional and performance specifications.
• Develop effective guidelines and ensure all project documentation meets established guidelines.
• Conduct business and technical presentations for the customer.
• Provide innovation solutions to complex technical problems.
• Understand and communicate government policies and regulations, operational mission and goals for assigned programs.
• Collaborate with developers and QA to ensure business and system requirements are met, and to enhance functionality.
• Attend required training.
• Perform backup support outside of the primary position function as assigned. Candidate will be responsible for the implementation and management of business aligned IT services.
• Ensuring the application platform is of high quality, defects free and adheres to industry standards for development, testing and deployment methodologies.

• Candidate must have at least five years of experience in software requirements analysis and documentation.
• Ability to work with all levels of client from end users to managers to obtain detailed system requirements.
• Excellent communication skills, the ability to facilitate working meetings, ask probing questions to elicit requirements and ability to understand the feedback to comprehend client responses to translate into documentable requirements.
• Critical thinking and analysis skills.
• Excellent writing skills to clearly document and communicate stakeholder requirements at various levels from high level to detailed.
• Experience in creating system and user documentation is also required.
• Working experience with Microsoft Office tools including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with modeling tools such as Visio, Balsamic and requirements management tools such as Contour or Jira is a must.
• Experience with Agile and SDLC methodologies.

• Interview and collaborate with stakeholders at multiple management levels to obtain requirements.
• Document and manage software requirements.
• Provide support for Developers, Test Team and client stakeholders in the creation and implementation of requirements.
• Develop and update software documentation.
• Develop and update User Guides.
• Design Document/RTM drafts.
• Develop software Release Notes.
• Develop Process Analysis and Standard Operating Procedures.
• Provide Process and system diagrams using available tools.
• Provides strategic advice to the lead, management and customers of the client.
• Capable of implementing programming standards that support a secure and defect free application.
• Interacts daily with government clients in order to meet the technical requirements for new initiatives.
• Works with Quality Assurance / Quality Control teams to insure the application remains secure and defect free.
• Evaluates, designs, and implements accepted programming standards as they relate to the SNAP E&T application and infrastructure.
• Defines and documents processes to be used by all application developers on the team.
• Plans, researches, and recommends new equipment, software tools, and related technologies.
• Uses monitoring and performance analysis tools to troubleshoot and isolate application performance issues.
• Updates system and process documentation, produces user guides, ER diagrams, and SOPs as needed - Including…