IT Business Analyst (VA802034)

IT Business Analyst (VA802034)


ROLE DESCRIPTION, DAY TO DAY:


• Conducts project initiation activities to identify new problems and objectives related to computer applications
and identifies issues to be addressed in the Requirements Definition Phase.

• Conducts requirements elicitation and documentation for new applications or enhancements to current
applications.

• Works 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.

• Ensures documented requirements are clear, concise, complete, and meet established agency guidelines and standards.

• Assists 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.

• Attends 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.


REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:


• 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, help foster a team environment, and effectively communicate both orally and in writing.


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:


• Familiarity with web application software development projects using .Net.

• Familiarity with documenting requirements in Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

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