Business Systems Analyst

Interview & Submission Requirements

• Interview: In-person interviews only.
• Onsite Requirement: Hybrid – 4 workday's onsite and 1 workday remote.

Additional Information

• Hybrid – 4 days onsite and 1 workday remote.
• Work Location: 102 Governor St., Richmond, VA 23219.
• No exceptions.
• If selected, candidates may be required to attend occasional in-person meetings onsite if scheduled on remote days.
• Parking is not provided for contractors.
• On the first day, candidates must come into the office to receive assigned equipment and activate their access badge.

• Candidates must be located in Virginia, preferably within Richmond or the surrounding areas.

Role Description / Day-to-Day 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.
• Assists with the development of applicable processes and templates as needed and directed by project leadership to ensure documentation is in a standard, easy-to-use, and repeatable format.
• Attends application design and development Scrum meetings to represent business needs and requirements during design and development processes.
• Writes and executes system test plans to verify the system meets all documented requirements.
• Performs manual testing on web applications and verifies successful completion of test plans.
• Creates testing plans to confirm that the application meets requirements and design specifications.
• Documents bugs and application insufficiencies with sufficient information to allow a developer to reproduce issues so they can be corrected.
• Assists with the development of user testing scripts for User Acceptance Testing.

Required 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.
• Ability to identify and document bugs or insufficiencies in a web application.
• Ability to successfully participate in a development team, help foster a team environment, and effectively communicate both orally and in writing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with web application software development projects using .NET.
• Familiarity with documenting requirements in Microsoft Team Foundation Server.

• Extensive experience in business and systems analysis, requirements documentation, system development life cycle, and agile application development.
• Extensive experience defining and documenting user requirements from multiple sources, prepare complex documents to effectively relay requirements
• 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
• Considerable experience in testing complex systems to determine that business needs are met.
• Experience conducting meetings and documenting project decisions.
• Ability to successfully participate in a development team, help foster a team environment, and effectively communicate both orally and in writing.
• Familiarity with web application software development projects using .Net.
• Familiarity with documenting requirements in Microsoft Team Foundation Server.