Position Title: Business Analyst - HR Workflow Automation
Duration: Long-Term Contract
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst with strong expertise in business analysis, requirements engineering, and Quality Assurance (QA) documentation to support HR workflow automation initiatives. The ideal candidate will have experience analyzing business processes, gathering functional requirements, documenting system integrations, managing Agile backlogs, and leading User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
Experience with HR systems, workflow automation, or state government applications is preferred. The candidate should be comfortable collaborating with HR subject matter experts, technical teams, enterprise system support staff, and management to deliver effective business solutions.
Required Education and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or a related field.
- A minimum of six years of professional work experience is required. Relevant work experience may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis.
- Certifications such as Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB), or similar Business Analysis and Quality Assurance certifications are preferred.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 6 years of experience in business analysis, requirements engineering, and QA documentation.
- Experience in a professional environment, preferably involving:
- HR systems and HR workflow automation.
- Workflow automation initiatives.
- State government applications.
- Demonstrated experience with business analysis tools, methodologies, and best practices.
- Experience translating business needs into functional requirements and technical documentation.
- Experience in Agile/Scrum environments and Azure DevOps.
- Experience developing test plans, test cases, and UAT documentation.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate project schedules, implementation plans, and documentation for HR automation releases, presenting updates to management, customers, and technical teams.
- Analyze existing business processes (As-Is), identify improvement opportunities, and develop future-state (To-Be) process documentation for HR workflow automation.
- Translate high-level business requirements into detailed business requirements documents and functional specifications.
- Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions with HR subject matter experts to elicit and prioritize business, functional, data, and integration requirements.
- Perform data analysis to understand current and future data needs and document data requirements.
- Evaluate existing integrations with internal and external applications, conduct impact analysis, and recommend integration solutions to support future business needs.
- Collaborate with functional and enterprise system support teams to conduct technical assessments of internal HR-related systems and integrations.
- Manage user stories, product backlogs, and sprint backlogs in Azure DevOps; participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives.
- Develop design specifications and mockups based on business and functional requirements approved by the HR Office.
- Develop testing strategies, data scenarios, and test plans to validate functional requirements.
- Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with HR teams and impacted stakeholders, document findings, coordinate issue resolution, track enhancements, and obtain user acceptance.
- Analyze information from multiple sources and prepare executive-level summaries and meaningful breakdowns of complex data.
- Develop standardized desk procedures covering process objectives, prerequisites, workflows, and process narratives.
- Prepare and maintain project schedules, implementation plans, business requirements documents, functional specifications, process documentation, design specifications, QA test plans, test cases, and UAT artifacts.