Business Analyst BA

A.C. Coy; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A.C. Coy is seeking a Business Analyst for a long-term contract opportunity with the State Of PA in Harrisburg, PA. This role requires working with the customer and development team to ensure systems function correctly. Candidates should have 4+ years of experience with requirements gathering, software support in Production Environments, conducting system testing, and Agile methodologies. Strong organization and communication skills are essential, as well as experience in automated testing with tools like Selenium.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience with requirements gathering.
• 4+ years supporting software in a Production Environment.
• 4+ years developing Business Requirements documentation.
• 4+ years conducting full system testing.

Responsibilities

• Work with the customer and development team.
• Ensure the system functions as desired.
• Assist with training and developing user guides.

Skills

Experience in working on a Scrum Team

Automated Testing practices (Selenium)

Strong organization and writing skills

User stories creation in Azure DevOps

Facilitated Workshops for requirements analysis

Accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1)

Job description

Overview

This is a long term contract opportunity with the State Of PA. You must be available to come onsite a few days a week in Harrisburg PA. The position will function as a Business Analyst on an existing development team and is responsible for working with the customer as well as the development team under the direction of a team lead to ensure the system functions as desired. These responsibilities include testing, requirements gathering, documentation, and customer support.

Qualifications

• Experience in working on a Scrum Team or similar Agile Development Team.
• Experience with Automated Testing practices and software, such as Selenium.
• Strong organization and writing skills.
• Willing to assist with training, developing user guides or other Business Analyst activities when necessary.
• Experience creating user stories, tasks, and bugs in Azure DevOps Studio, or similar software.
• Communicates clearly and works with users and client as necessary.
• Experience participating in Facilitated Workshops for requirements analysis.
• Experience testing or documenting requirements related to accessibility of a software application.
• Knowledge of formal requirements gathering methodologies.
• Experience developing Business Requirements - project initiation document, what the needed achievements will be, and the quality measures.
• Experience developing Functional requirements - describe what the system, process, or product/service must do in order to fulfill the business requirements.
• Experience developing User (stakeholder) requirements - are a very important part of the deliverables, the needs of the stakeholders will have to be correctly interpreted. This deliverable can also reflect how the product will be designed, developed, and define how test cases must be formulated.
• Experience developing Quality-of-service (non-functional) requirements - re requirements that does not perform a specific function for the business requirement but are needed to support the functionality. For example: performance, scalability, quality of service (QoS), security and usability.
• Familiarity with testing accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1) preferred.
• Experience with requirements gathering - Required 4 years
• Experience supporting software in a Production Environment and handling customer reported issues - Required 4 years
• Experience developing Business Requirements documentation - Required 4 years
• Experience conducting full system testing with overall functionality - Required 4 years
• Prior Commonwealth experience - Desired
• Experience in working on a Scrum Team or Agile environment - Desired