Business Analyst

For more details, please connect with Kajal Verma at kajalv@vgroupinc.com or call at 609-564-2786. End Client: State of Virginia Job Title: Business Analyst 4 Duration: 13 Months Location: Richmond, VA (4 workdays on site, 1 day Remote) Position Type: Contract Hours Per Week: 40 Interview Type: In Person Only Ceipal ID: SVA_BA034_KV Job Code: 802034 Department: Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) Scope of Project IN PERSON INTERVIEW REQUIRED! 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. • Write and execute system test plans to verify the system meets all documented requirements. • Perform manual testing on web applications and verify successful completion of test plans. • Create testing plans to confirm that application meets requirements and design specifications. • Document bugs and application insufficiencies with sufficient information to allow a developer to reproduce issues so they can be corrected. • Assist with the development of user testing scripts for User Acceptance Testing. Required/Preferred Skills: Required Skills • 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 Skills • Familiarity with web application software development projects using .Net. • Familiarity with documenting requirements in Microsoft Team Foundation Server. V Group Inc. is a NJ-based IT Services and Products Company with its business strategically categorized in various Business Units including Public Sector, Enterprise Solutions, Professional Services, Ecommerce, Projects, and Products. Within Public Sector business unit, we cater IT Professional Services to Federal, State and Local. We have multiple awards/ contracts with 30+ states, including but not limited to NY, CA, FL, GA, MD, MI, NC, OH, OR, CO, CT, TN, PA, TX, VA, NM, VT, and WA. If you are considering applying for a position with V Group, or in partnering with us on a position, please feel free to contact me for any questions you may have regarding our services and the advantages we can offer you as a consultant. Please share my contact information with others working in Information Technology. Website: https://www.vgroupinc.com/publicsector LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/v-group/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VGroupIT Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/vgroupinc