Business Systems Analyst

LOCALS TO VA, HYBRID

BSA Skills

Perform & appropriately scale BSA-related tasks & activities for work efforts of various sizes (from small maintenance items and defects to large projects)

Ensure SDLC processes are being followed

Product thorough User Stories with sufficient Acceptance Criteria Development and Specification necessary to support the product owner, SME, development and quality assurance stakeholders

Acquire full understanding of business vision for project, enhancements, and defect remediation

Make recommendations to business on best practices

Provide business analysis support for project requests making sure to examine build vs. buy options that may be available and align with business strategic goals including cost / benefit analysis for new efforts

Effectively use various elicitation techniques (JAD sessions, interviews, surveys, shadowing, etc.) to ensure that the true business need and intent is understood and well documented. (RFPs, SOWs, business requirements, business processes, flows, etc)

Formulate and document well-formed user stories with detailed acceptance criteria

Understand how change to a component/application impacts the whole system and make recommendations for the logical design of system enhancements

Provide design support for technical teams in planning and execution of project design sessions prior to development iterations to identify and specify logical system design

Work with Development Lead / System Engineer as liaison to communicate business requirements through elicitation of additional technical requirements

Gather integration requirements for data to include identification and assessment of data sources and creation of source/target mapping

Adapt current integration processes to accommodate changes in source systems and new business user requirements

Partner with technical and quality assurance resources to ensure that requirements are implemented and tested per the acceptance criteria

Assist Product Owners with UAT planning and execution integrated with QA test planning (as needed)

Additional Skills

Proficiency with Microsoft 365 Applications for Enterprise (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)

Proven knowledge of Web Application Concepts

Proven knowledge of Client / Server Application Concepts

Effective Meeting Facilitation, Conflict Resolution and Negotiation skills

Mentor & provide guidance to junior members of the team

Experience with HR systems and eCommerce implementation