Business Analyst ( CBAP)

JSM Consulting Inc.; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

JSM Consulting Inc. in Albany, NY seeks a Senior Business Analyst to translate stakeholder needs into validated requirements and document BRDs, use cases, and UI artifacts for development teams.

The role emphasizes facilitating requirement workshops (JAD and walkthroughs), managing the requirements lifecycle, baselining changes, and supporting UAT with test plans and test cases. On-site interviews at 1450 Western Avenue, Albany.

Qualifications

• 84 months experience eliciting and analyzing business needs and turning them into verified requirements.
• 84 months experience creating and maintaining software requirements artifacts (BRDs, use cases, reports, wireframes).
• Experience with context diagrams, textual use cases, swim lanes, report specs, wireframes, UI specifications.
• 84 months experience facilitating requirement workshops (JAD sessions, structured walkthroughs).
• 72 months experience managing requirements throughout the lifecycle including RM plan, baselines, and change control.
• 60 months experience creating test plans and test cases with User Acceptance Testing support.
• CBAP certification and a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Lead elicitation and analysis to translate stakeholder needs into verified requirements.
• Create and maintain BRDs, use cases, and UI/UX artifacts.
• Develop context diagrams, swim lanes, and report specifications.
• Facilitate JAD sessions and structured walkthroughs with stakeholders.
• Manage requirements lifecycle, baselines, and change control.
• Support UAT with test plans and test cases.

Skills

Elicitation and analysis

Requirements documentation

Business analysis artifacts

Process modeling

Facilitation (JAD)

Requirements lifecycle management

Test planning & UAT support

Education

CBAP Certification (IIBA)

Bachelor's degree in relevant field

Job description

Interview Format

inperson interview

Location

1450 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12203

Required Experience

• 84 months experience eliciting then analyzing the stakeholder's business needs using a variety of analysis techniques and converting those into verified and validated functional and non-functional requirements for development including but not limited to eliciting functional requirements, non-functional requirements, report requirements, and business rules.
• 84 months experience in creating and maintaining software development artifacts for communication of requirements, including end user documentation, specifically business cases, business requirements documents (BRDs), use cases, report mockups, wire frames, and flow diagrams.
• In addition, context diagrams, textual use cases, swim lane diagrams, report specifications, wireframes, user interface specifications, and non-functional requirements specification.
• 84 months experience facilitating requirement workshops, such as, JAD sessions and structured walkthroughs.
• 72 months experience managing requirements throughout the requirements management lifecycle, including creation and execution of a requirements management plan, requirements traceability matrix, establishing requirements baselines and managing requirements change control.
• 60 months experience creating test plans and test cases and working with users on User Acceptance Testing.
• CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) certification by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) Bachelor's degree in business intelligence, information science, criminal justice, health science, computer science, mathematics, or public/business administration.