Senior Business Analyst — SDLC, QA & Agile (Hybrid VA)

Talent Software Services, Inc.; Virginia; Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent Software Services, Inc. seeks an experienced Business Analyst in Richmond, VA, for an 8-month contract. The role requires elicitation, documentation, SDLC alignment, and agile practices to translate business needs into clear specifications. Occasional on-site attendance may be required for scheduled meetings.

You will participate in design and development scrums, write test plans, and contribute to user acceptance testing, ensuring quality deliverables and alignment with agency standards.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in business and systems analysis, requirements documentation, system development life cycle, and agile application development methodologies such as Scrum.
• Extensive experience defining and documenting user requirements from multiple sources, with the ability to prepare complex documents to effectively relay these requirements to both business users and developers.
• Extensive experience supporting application development, maintenance, and implementation, systems analysis and design, and business process improvement.
• Extensive experience defining and documenting business processes and mapping or developing processes in a new system.
• Experience manually performing testing on a web application.
• Considerable experience in testing complex systems to determine that business needs are met.
• Ability to write and execute test plans and scripts according to identified standards.
• Experience conducting meetings and documenting project decisions.

Responsibilities

• Conducts project initiation activities to identify new problems and objectives related to computer applications and identifies issues to be addressed in the Requirements Definition Phase.
• Conducts requirements elicitation and documentation for new applications or enhancements to current applications.
• Works with business and Information Systems staff to determine needs and produce an SDLC compliant Requirements Definition document that completely and clearly defines the requirements within the established time frame.
• Ensures documented requirements are clear, concise, complete, and meet established agency guidelines and standards.
• Attends application design and development scrum meetings to represent business needs and requirements during design and development processes.
• Write and execute system test plans to verify the system meets all documented requirements.
• Perform manual testing on web applications and verify successful completion of test plans.
• Create testing plans to confirm that application meets requirements and design specifications.
• Document bugs and application insufficiencies with sufficient information to allow a developer to reproduce issues so they can be corrected.
• Assist with the development of user testing scripts for User Acceptance Testing.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements documentation

SDLC

Agile/Scrum

Test planning

Communication

Team collaboration

Web testing

Job description

Talent Software Services, Inc. seeks an experienced Business Analyst in Richmond, VA, for an 8-month contract. The role requires elicitation, documentation, SDLC alignment, and agile practices to translate business needs into clear specifications. Occasional on-site attendance may be required for scheduled meetings.

You will participate in design and development scrums, write test plans, and contribute to user acceptance testing, ensuring quality deliverables and alignment with agency standards.