Business Analyst 4 – IN PERSON IVS REQUIRED

Novalink Solutions LLC; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Novalink Solutions LLC in Richmond, VA seeks a seasoned Business/Systems Analyst for hybrid work. The role emphasizes elicitation, SDLC documentation, and collaboration with business users and developers to define clear requirements and processes.

You will participate in design, development sprints, and testing activities, including creating test plans and executing manual tests to ensure alignment with business needs.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in business and systems analysis, requirements documentation, SDLC, and agile development (Scrum).
• Extensive experience defining and documenting user requirements from multiple sources.
• 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.
• Experience testing complex systems to ensure business needs are met.
• Ability to write and execute test plans and scripts.
• Experience conducting meetings and documenting project decisions.
• Ability to identify and document bugs or insufficiencies in a web application.
• Ability to participate in development team and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Conduces project initiation activities to identify new problems and objectives related to computer applications and defines requirements.
• Elicits and documents requirements for new applications or enhancements.
• Works with business and IS staff to produce an SDLC compliant Requirements Definition document.
• Ensures documented requirements are clear, concise, complete, and meet guidelines.
• Assists with templates and processes for standard, repeatable documentation.
• Attends design and development scrum meetings to represent business needs.
• Writes and executes system test plans to verify requirements.
• Performs manual testing on web applications and tests plans.
• Creates testing plans to confirm requirements and design specs.
• Documents bugs with enough detail for replication.
• Assists in developing user testing scripts for UAT.

Skills

Business analysis

Systems analysis

Agile Scrum

Requirements docs

Tools

Microsoft TFS

Job description

ON SITE REQUIREMENT: Hybrid – 4 ON SITE, 1 workday remote at 102 Governor St., Richmond, VA 23219 – NO Exceptions!

If selected they may be required to attend occasional in-person meetings on site if scheduled on remote days.

LOCATION REQUIREMENT: Candidates must be located in Virginia, preferably within Richmond or surrounding areas.

PARKING is NOT provided for contractors. FIRST DAY, must come into office on first day to receive assigned equipment and activate access badge.

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.

Requirements

• | Extensive experience in business and systems analysis, requirements documentation, system development life cycle, and agile application development. | Required | 8 | Years |
• | Extensive experience defining and documenting user requirements from multiple sources, prepare complex documents to effectively relay requirements. | Required | 8 | Years |
• | Extensive experience supporting application development, maintenance and implementation, systems analysis and design, and business process improvement | Required | 8 | Years |
• | Extensive experience defining and documenting business processes and mapping or developing processes in a new system. | Required | 8 | Years |
• | Considerable experience in testing complex systems to determine that business needs are met. | Required | 8 | Years |
• | Experience conducting meetings and documenting project decisions. | Required | 8 | Years |
• | Familiarity with web application software development projects using .Net. | Desired | 2 | Years |
• | Familiarity with documenting requirements in Microsoft Team Foundation Server. | Desired | 2 | Years |