Business Analyst & QA Specialist – Compliance

Actalent; Annapolis (MD); Hybrid; USD 151,536,000 - 171,924,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision insurance

401(k) plan

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Actalent in Annapolis, MD seeks a Business Analyst/QA Specialist to translate business and product needs into actionable requirements for compliant software development. You will partner with product, engineering, and QA teams to ensure traceability from requirements to tests across systems in a government-related DMV environment.

The role emphasizes documentation in Jira/Confluence, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering clear, testable requirements for complex platform interpretations.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Business Analyst or Systems Analyst supporting software or platform development.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Proven experience in requirements gathering and documentation across business, user, and product domains.
• Strong understanding of how business, user, and product requirements interrelate within complex system environments.
• Technical fluency sufficient to interpret data flows, system integrations, and functional dependencies.
• Experience supporting QA workflows and maintaining requirements-to-test-case traceability.
• Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to break down complex problems and define clear, structured requirements.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, and document business, user, and product requirements that capture functional, non-functional, and compliance-related needs.
• Partner with Product Owners, Engineering, and QA teams to ensure requirements are technically sound, testable, and interconnected across systems.
• Analyze how requirements impact one another and identify dependencies, constraints, and interactions within integrated system components.
• Ensure compliance-driven and policy-related requirements are accurately reflected and traceable throughout the system lifecycle.
• Support QA processes by linking requirements to test cases and validation criteria to achieve complete coverage and end-to-end traceability.
• Maintain organized, high-quality documentation across Jira, Confluence, and related collaboration and tracking tools.
• Facilitate requirement review sessions to confirm accuracy, resolve ambiguities, and promote shared understanding across delivery teams.
• Interpret data flows, system integrations, and functional dependencies to inform requirement design and impact analysis.
• Collaborate with stakeholders from both technical and business domains to align requirements with strategic objectives and user needs.

Skills

Requirements analysis

Traceability

QA support

Compliance awareness

Stakeholder communication

Systems thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Actalent in Annapolis, MD seeks a Business Analyst/QA Specialist to translate business and product needs into actionable requirements for compliant software development. You will partner with product, engineering, and QA teams to ensure traceability from requirements to tests across systems in a government-related DMV environment.

The role emphasizes documentation in Jira/Confluence, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering clear, testable requirements for complex platform interpretations.