Senior Business Analyst - Public Sector IT (Contract) - Austin

Luna Data Solutions Inc.; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Short-term disability insurance

Job summary

Luna Data Solutions Inc. in Austin, TX seeks a Senior Business Analyst to lead requirements management, BRD/FRD development, and QA coordination for delivering high-quality applications.

You will partner with stakeholders, product owners, developers, and IT to translate business needs into technical solutions. The role involves UAT planning, release planning, and collaboration across Scrum teams to ensure production readiness and successful deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in business analysis, requirements gathering, project planning, monitoring, and implementation.
• Proven experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, and validating requirements for large-scale applications.
• Extensive experience facilitating stakeholder workshops, interviews, and JAD sessions.
• Experience developing BRDs, FRDs, use cases, user stories, and process maps.
• Experience leading UAT planning, execution, validation, and defect management.
• Experience performing change management and organizational readiness activities.
• Strong understanding of Agile and Scrum practices.
• Experience with enterprise Java-based environments including Java, Angular, and Spring Boot.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Experience writing and validating SQL queries; strong relational database knowledge (Oracle).
• Experience with APIs and enterprise messaging solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements gathering, analysis, validation, and documentation for moderate to complex business solutions.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings, workshops, interviews, JAD sessions to define requirements.
• Develop and maintain BRDs, FRDs, use cases, process flows, user stories, and documentation.
• Collaborate with product owners, developers, architects, testers, and stakeholders throughout SDLC.
• Support Agile/Scrum processes including backlog refinement, sprint planning, and release planning.
• Coordinate QA activities across multiple Scrum teams to ensure production readiness.
• Lead UAT planning, execution, defect triage, issue resolution, and validation.
• Conduct business process analysis, gap analysis, impact assessments, and improvements.
• Work with Change Management and ITSM teams to support release schedules and deployments.
• Analyze system functionality, workflows, and integration requirements for enhancements.
• Create data mapping documents, business rules, and functional specifications.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder workshops

SQL queries

Relational databases

Oracle databases

API integration

Agile Scrum

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Java

Angular

Spring Boot

Job description

Luna Data Solutions Inc. in Austin, TX seeks a Senior Business Analyst to lead requirements management, BRD/FRD development, and QA coordination for delivering high-quality applications.

You will partner with stakeholders, product owners, developers, and IT to translate business needs into technical solutions. The role involves UAT planning, release planning, and collaboration across Scrum teams to ensure production readiness and successful deployments.