Job summary:

Job description:

 ** **Long term*** Initial remote due to covid then onsite; must pickup laptop in person.

*local candidates strongly preferred

*interviews will be conducted via MS Teams or Google Meet. 

*candidates will telework now (after coming to office to pick up laptop). Once restrictions are lifted, candidates will be required to work onsite daily M-F 8-5pm, NO exceptions

Responsibilities: 

• Work with the Product Owners to understand business processes and pain points 
• Develop expertise in the customers business applications
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis to identify system gaps and deficiencies that require a business, technical or blended approach for resolution 
• Diagram current processes and proposed modifications using process flows, context diagrams and data flow diagrams
• Discover and document requirements and user stories with a focus on improving both business and technical processing
• Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff  
• Utilize progressive elaboration; map stories to technical design specifications to be used by internal staff to develop the system modifications
• Identify and group related user stories into Themes, document the dependencies and associated business processes
• Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog 
• Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups
• Propose alternative solutions that balance cost and benefit, and adequately test a solutions feasibility for business and technical compatibility
• Collaborate with staff, vendors, consultants, and contractors as they are engaged on tasks to formulate, detail and test potential and implemented solutions.
• Perform Quality Analyst functions such as defining test objectives, test plans and test cases, and executing test cases (including regression testing)
• Assist Product Owners with testing the deliverables and coordinate User Acceptance Testing
• Qualifications
• Required:
• The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts.
• 5+ years experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology 
• Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs
• Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories 
• Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development 
• Experience with large, multi-module systems  
• Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)
• Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM)
• The candidate must have exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers

Preferred:

• CBAP and/or CSPO Certification
• Experience using Team Foundation Server for agile software development and work item tracking
• Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete

Required Skills

• The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts.
• 5+ years experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology
• 5 years of Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs
• 5 years of Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories
• 5 years of Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development
• 5 years of Experience with large, multi-module systems
• 10 years of Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)
• 10 years of Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM)
• 10 years of The candidate must have exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers
• 10 years of Experience developing test strategies, plans and scripts, conducting regression testing, documenting traceability, and managing UAT.

Highly desired skills

• Experience developing automated test scripts in tools such as Test Complete

Contact the recruiter working on this position:

The recruiter working on this position is Mounika Lanka(Ravi Team)
His/her contact number is +(1) (703) 6468773
His/her contact email is mounika@msysinc.com

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