Business Analyst with Agile/Scrum

Position: Business Analyst with Agile/Scrum
Location: Richmond, VA (Candidate must be able to come to Richmond, VA occasionally
Duration: Long term

**Candidate must have experience working in Agile/Scrum as a Senior Business Analyst 
Responsibilities:
• Profile source data; review source data and compare content and structure to dataset requirements; identify conflicts and determine recommendations for resolution
• Conduct entity resolution to identify matching and merging and semantic conflicts
• Elicit, record, and manage metadata
• Diagram current processes and proposed modifications using process flows, context diagrams and data flow diagrams
• 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 data models and architectures to be used by internal staff to facilitate master data management
• Identify and group related user stories into themes, document dependencies and associated business processes
• Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups
• 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
• Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress Qualifications

Required:
• The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and data analysis artifacts.
• 5+ years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology
• Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs

Preferred:
• CBAP and/or CSPO Certification
• CDMP and/or CDP Certification
• Experience using Team Foundation Server and work item tracking
• Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete

Skill Matrix:
Delivering business and systems analysis artifacts such as Business Requirements Documentation (BRD), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development
Experience creating wireframes and prototypes (using applications such as Balsamiq)
Experience with Application Lifecycle management (ALM)
Experience with automated testing tools such as TestComplete
Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification