Senior Business Analyst - Discovery, QA & Stakeholder Lead

WinChoice; Arizona; On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

WinChoice in Arizona is seeking a Senior Business Analyst who bridges business needs and technical solutions by owning requirements, quality assurance, and stakeholder collaboration to drive discovery and ensure high-quality deliverables across IT initiatives.

You will mentor junior analysts, lead testing strategies and UAT with business stakeholders, and guide backlog refinement and sprint planning to deliver impactful, well-documented solutions.

Qualifications

• Six or more years of experience in business analysis, quality assurance, or a related role with demonstrated ownership of a business domain.
• Proven ability to lead discovery efforts on undefined business problems and produce well-supported recommendations.
• Experience authoring clear, concise, and testable requirements suitable for development teams with minimal clarification.
• Demonstrated success leading User Acceptance Testing with business stakeholders and validating delivered functionality.
• Experience mentoring analysts and reviewing requirement and test documentation.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the requirements relationship with business stakeholders for assigned domains, ensuring clarity and alignment.
• Lead discovery sessions through interviews, workshops, observation, and data analysis to identify core business problems and opportunities.
• Analyze requests to uncover underlying issues, presenting viable solution options and defining future-state processes with operational impact considerations.
• Author precise, testable requirements and acceptance criteria, and define comprehensive test strategies including scope, regression, and validation plans.
• Design, execute, and coordinate testing activities such as functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing, ensuring quality standards are met.
• Lead backlog refinement, participate in sprint planning, and represent business requirements during technical discussions and trade-off analyses.
• Mentor junior and mid-level analysts through review, feedback, and knowledge sharing, while contributing to team standards and documentation.

Skills

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder collaboration

Quality assurance

Mentoring

Backlog refinement

Sprint planning

Data analysis

Test strategies

Requirements authoring

Tools

CRM systems

Job description

WinChoice in Arizona is seeking a Senior Business Analyst who bridges business needs and technical solutions by owning requirements, quality assurance, and stakeholder collaboration to drive discovery and ensure high-quality deliverables across IT initiatives.

You will mentor junior analysts, lead testing strategies and UAT with business stakeholders, and guide backlog refinement and sprint planning to deliver impactful, well-documented solutions.