Sr. Technical Business Analyst

Sligo Software Solutions Inc.; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software development and IT consulting company is seeking a Sr. Technical Business Analyst for a 30-month contract with the New York State Education Department. The role involves working closely with project managers, analyzing business needs, and ensuring the delivery of quality technical solutions by collaborating with various stakeholders. Candidates should have 10+ years of relevant experience and expertise in Agile methodologies and testing environments.

Qualifications

• 84 months experience in requirements elicitation and business analysis.
• 84 months of experience in Agile environments with stakeholder interaction.
• 72 months experience using Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate meetings to understand business processes and document requirements.
• Manage requirements and user accessibility testing in Agile/Waterfall environments.
• Assist the project manager in developing RFP/RFQ and support QA/Testing.

Skills

Requirements Elicitation

Business Analysis

Testing

Agile Methodology

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Office

Selenium

Salesforce

Job description

Greetings from Sligo Software Solutions, Inc. !!

This is Abhijith from SLIGO. We have an urgent requirement for Sr. Technical Business Analyst position with our client.

Title : Sr. Technical Business Analyst

Location : Albany, New York

Duration : 30 Months

Client : NY State - New York State Education Department (NYSED)

Job ID: SLG - 19 - 10693

Respond by: 06/04/25 5:00 PM

Greetings from Sligo Software Solutions, Inc. !!

SLIGO is a Software Development & IT Consulting company. We have around 100+ IT associates working with our esteemed clients across several domains such as IT, Banking, Healthcare, and Government.

We have an urgent requirement for Sr. Technical Business Analyst position with our client.

Role: Sr. Technical Business Analyst

Location: Albany, New York

Duration: 30 Months

Job ID: SLG - 19 - 10693

Client: NY State

Description

The Business Analyst will work with the Project Manager(s) to define business requirements, develop RFP/RFQ, workflows, testing of artifacts and other project deliverables.

Duties

• Setting up and facilitating meetings with the business office to understand business processes (As-Is and To-Be) and pain points.
• Routinely send out meeting minutes, decisions, and action items to team members.
• Operate in a hybrid (Agile/Waterfall) environment and actively manage requirements, change requests and user accessibility testing needs.
• Contribute to design and architecture discussions, daily stand-ups, sprint planning sessions and other meetings.
• Create/update user stories for all business, functional and non-functional requirements (F/NFR), including workflows, business rules, use cases, wireframes, activity & sequence diagrams.
• Act as liaison between business teams and software development teams, management, PMO and end-users.
• Meet project goals and objectives
• Assist project manager in developing RFP/RFQ, project management tasks and reporting project health periodically.
• Support QA/Testing by developing timely test plans, writing and executing test cases, done/acceptance criteria, end-user testing and deliverables validation.
  
  

Mandatory Requirements

• Experience (10+Years)
• Analyzes an organization or business domain (real or hypothetical) and documents its business or processes or systems, assessing the business model or its integration with technology with distinct deliverables to a solution.
  
  

Requirements

• This is an 100% Onsite
• 84 months experience in requirements elicitation,businessanalysis and validation, translating business needs, expectations, constraints and interfaces into actionable technical objectives and identifying solutions by producing written documentation in textual form, visual models and graphical illustration for all stages - system design, requirements, testing & implementation.
• 84 months of experience under project manager supervision, in interacting and following up with multiple stakeholders including but not limited to program leaders, SMEs, process owners, IT staff, etc. for facilitating JAD/JRP sessions, driving accountability and/or responsibility for assigned tasks completion.
• 84 months of experience in utilizing various business analysis techniques in Agile to derive and document user stories from business requirements. This includes creating and maintaining documentation throughout the SDLC (e.g., business / use-case development, fit-gap analysis, process flows, mockups, sequence diagrams, wireframes, impact & feasibility analysis, change control, etc.), tracking and reporting of risks, inconsistencies and issues during design, requirements’ gathering, testing and UAT phases.
• 84 months experience establishing criteria for evaluation, validation and acceptance of deliverable / ‘Done’ criteria, manage requirements scope, key decisions tracking, tracing requirements completion, obtaining commitment to the requirements and approvals from the project participants. This includes identifying and recording inconsistencies in requirements and clarifying with management for a clear and common understanding of business and IT teams.
• 84 months of experience in all types of testing (including functional, non-functional, regressions, integration, UAT, etc.) of applications, business process validations reporting needs and data sanity checks. This includes writing and executing various types of test cases, testing procedures & cycles, manual and automated testing using Selenium and/or similar tools, defects tracking, bugs resolution, periodic testing results communication and requirements-based validation/testing for final deliverables sign-off.
• 72 months’ experience in supporting cross-functional process-driven cloud-based solutions such as gov. grants, Salesforce, Out systems, and more.
• 84 months experience in providing business analysis and testing support for legacy systems/data migration and infrastructure upgrade projects involving cloud-based commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, and/or custom development, process improvement strategies, configurations, troubleshooting incidents and quality assurance.
• 72 months experience using Atlassian online tools, such as Jira and Confluence.
• 84 months of experience in standardizing requirements gathering processes, RFP/RFQ writing, grants management, review / approval mechanisms, implementing standard operating procedures for requirements management, document versioning and control during requirements changes, and upkeep of project artifacts in a dynamic environment.
• 84 months of experience in Business Analysis and Testing tools – Microsoft Office products including Visio, SharePoint, Project, Power Automate, Dynamics, etc., Jira/Confluence, Salesforce, DocuSign, Tableau, COGNOS, TFS, HP QC, Selenium, Zephyr, etc.
• Résumé
• Copy of Candidate Identification (i.e., Driver’s License/Green Card/Visa and Passport if applicable)
• Any documents referenced in the above Requested Qualifications (i.e., professional certifications, degrees, etc.)