Senior Business Analyst in Mechanicsville VA (Hybrid)

One of our premier clients is looking for a Senior Business Analyst in Mechanicsville VA (Hybrid) for a Contract position. If interested, please submit your resume ASAP indicating (1) current location (2) desired hourly rate (3) Your email address.

• Responsible for ensuring that business needs are well understood, documented, and communicated to the technical resources responsible.
• Assignments may include analysis and design of new features and platform implementation as well as partnering with both business stakeholders and technical resources to prioritize, manage, troubleshoot and implement small to medium-size enhancement.
• Problem-solving and triage support for urgent production break fix resolution is also required.
• Demonstrate excellent meeting facilitation and time management during the course of assignments
• Demonstrate flexibility in dealing with shifting priorities and the ability to manage and balance multiple assignments at the same time
• Competently and professionally interact with, set expectations and resolve requirements & prioritization conflicts with stakeholders at all levels of the organization
• Product thorough User Stories with sufficient Acceptance Criteria Development and Specification necessary to support the product owner, SME, development and quality assurance stakeholders
• Acquire full understanding of business vision for project, enhancements, and defect remediation
• Make recommendations to business on best practices
• Provide business analysis support for project requests making sure to examine build vs. buy options that may be available and align with business strategic goals including cost / benefit analysis for new efforts.

• Experience as a business system analysis or comparable
• Full SDLC experience including supporting QA and UAT needs
• Experience with Business Systems Analysis software applications tools, and techniques
• Experience as a BSA on agile, waterfall and hybrid agile-waterfall methodologies
• Writes specific, measurable, and testable user stories with detailed acceptance criteria
• Develops clear and effective business and system documentation (process flows, data mapping, RFPs, SOWs, business requirements, etc)
• Effectively facilitate meetings and requirements gathering sessions (JAD sessions, interviews, surveys, shadowing, etc.)
• Excellent problem solving and technical troubleshooting capabilities
• Basic SQL Skills (Select only, ability to write complex joins)
• Experience gathering integration requirements for data: identifying and assessing data sources, creating source/target mappings, interface req.
• Problem-solving and triage support for urgent production break fix resolution
• Experience developing or writing business cases and supporting or executing market research
• Experience facilitating system design and technical requirements sessions
• Experience facilitating meetings with complex stakeholder dynamics
• Experience with and proven knowledge of Web Application concepts
• Experience with and proven knowledge of Client / Server Application concepts
• Ability to read and interpret vendor API documentation
• Previous experience using Atlassian JIRA
• Experience working and partnering with Vendor Support
• Experience with HR systems and eCommerce implementation