Software Analyst - Expert

JSM Consulting Inc.; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

JSM Consulting Inc. in Albany, NY seeks an experienced Business Analyst to elicit, analyze, and document stakeholder needs, translating them into clear functional and non-functional requirements for development teams and ensuring they are testable.

You will facilitate JAD sessions, conduct interviews, craft user stories, and maintain artifacts such as context diagrams, use cases, and wireframes, ensuring traceability and sign-off.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of business analyst experience.
• Experience eliciting and analyzing stakeholder needs and translating into requirements.
• Ability to create and maintain artifacts (context diagrams, use cases, wireframes, non-functional specs).
• Experience facilitating requirement workshops and JAD sessions.
• Experience creating test plans/cases and supporting UAT.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze, and document stakeholder needs into verified requirements.
• Facilitate workshops/JAD sessions and interviews with business users.
• Create user stories and documentation (As Is/To Be, diagrams) for development teams.
• Ensure requirements traceability, baselines, and change control throughout lifecycle.
• Support testing activities and communicate with users to ensure acceptance.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder interviews

JAD sessions

User stories

Documentation (As Is/To Be)

Traceability

Communication

Education

CBAP

PMP

Job description

84 Months experience performing analysis by eliciting then analyzing the stakeholder's business needs using a variety of analysis techniques including but not limited to JAD sessions, requirement elicitation sessions, conducting interviews, creating user stories, documenting As Is and To Be documents and diagrams, and converting those into verified and validated functional and non-functional requirements for development. 84 Months experience creating and maintaining software development artifacts for communication of requirements, including context diagrams, textual use cases, swim lane diagrams, report specifications, wireframes, user interface specifications, and non-functional requirements specifications. 84 Months experience facilitating requirement workshops, JAD sessions and structured walkthroughs, practicing effective communication to ensure requirements are understood, conveyed, and met. 72 Months experience creating test plans/cases, managing defects with development teams, and working with users on User Acceptance Testing. 72 Months experience managing requirements throughout the Requirements Management Lifecycle, including creation and execution of a Requirements Management Plan, requirements traceability, establishing requirements baselines and managing requirements change control 36 Months experience working on various applications within healthcare including but not limited to patient records, billing and finance, and human resources. CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) certification by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)
or
PMP Project Management Professional certification by the Project Management Institute (PMI)