Position Summary
The Business Analyst is responsible for gathering and documenting system/business requirements in the form of user stories and use cases, perform requirement analysis and systems analysis, facilitating design and development of software solutions, assisting with the testing process, and helping quality assurance process.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for stakeholder management, requirement elicitation, preparing estimations for business analysis tasks and deliverables, systems analysis, preparing functional specifications using user stories, acceptance criteria and use case narration.
- Responsible for ensuring unique business needs are properly translated to functional specifications and provide a system solution, assisting with the maintenance of project schedules and developing various status reports.
- Plan out business analysis efforts, including stakeholder analysis, communication planning, and elicitation techniques.
- Support discussions on establishing and controlling application scope.
- Facilitate requirements gathering via meetings, interview sessions, brainstorming, documentation analysis, and other techniques as necessary.
- Support customer meetings to understand current client business practices and business needs supporting requirements analysis.
- Document and validate high-level business needs.
- Document quality attributes, interfaces, and other nonfunctional requirements
- Ensure that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.
- Validate requirements with business stakeholders and team members.
- Manage client relationships and expectations during the requirements gathering phase.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and team members regarding requirements development and translation into software specifications.
- Support traceability efforts from high-level business needs through functional validation
- Participate in requirements prioritization.
- Support requirements decomposition into specifications
- Write detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions and dependencies required to develop or modify applications.
- Support development and refinement of requirements, identifying and recommending corrections to gaps or deficiencies.
- Manage changes to baselined requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools.
- Consolidate user stories and user feedback on apps throughout the development cycle.
- Write and/or review documents needed to support application release.
- Coordinate the stage gate review process including assembling document packages and working with team members to complete required documentation.
- Works closely with developers and testers to ensure all requirements are understood and have corresponding test scripts.
- Ensure the project teams have clear, consistent, and testable requirements.
- Support business validation of functionality
- Manage the documentation for multiple applications and releases across more than one development team while meeting deadlines.
- Assist in maintaining concurrent project schedules.
- Develop weekly and monthly status reports.
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college in Information Systems, Business Administration or related discipline highly preferred.
- Three plus years of work experience in Information Technology as a Business Analyst and Tester.
- Experience facilitating meetings with business owners, technical leads, and other stakeholders.
- Worked as the Scrum Master for technical team coordination.
- Experience capturing business needs and develops corresponding functional solutions.
- Has developed technical requirements, user stories, and mockups to address business needs and has worked with developers and testers to ensure prototype solutions meet expectations.
- Has executed detailed tests and test scripts and documented test results.
- Experience automating tests as needed in testing tools to support automation, 508 compliance, and performance testing.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS PowerPoint
- Proficient in formal software development life cycle processes.
- Proficient with JIRA
- Demonstrated abilities as a driven, self-starter and quick study
- Story Creation
- Customization
- Report Generation
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a government environment
- Experience with using JIRA and FDA
- Agile development practices
- MS Visio
ABOUT US
Precise Software Solutions, Inc. is a mission-focused technology services company delivering secure digital platforms, infrastructure, and operational IT services to government organizations. A CMMI Level 3–appraised company, Precise partners with agency technology leaders and solution providers to design, build, operate, and modernize enterprise IT solutions that support critical public missions combining agility, innovation, and performance to deliver measurable results.
Precise specializes in cloud and hybrid infrastructure, platform engineering, security operations and compliance, application modernization, and data platforms and analytics. The company is known for its agile, delivery-driven approach and innovative engineering practices, applying operational rigor and performance-focused execution to improve system resilience, security, and scalability across complex government environments.
BENEFITS AND PERKS
- Comprehensive Health Benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Retirement Plan with 4% match and discretionary match at year end
- Paid Time Off (PTO): 15 days of PTO accrued per year; 7 holidays+ 3 Floating holidays; 2 Innovation days (paid training days)
- Short Term and Long-Term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Jury Duty leave
- Life and AD&D Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Training and Development
- Wellness Incentives & Discount programs
- Employee Referral Program
- Annual Charity Donation Match
- Awards and Recognition
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Precise Software Solutions is committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status.
We are an inclusive organization and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. We expect every member of the Precise community to do their part to cultivate and maintain an environment where everyone has the opportunity to feel included and is afforded the respect and dignity they deserve.