Business Analyst - BA 25-34182
Business Analyst 3 (Senior Level) Location: Remote (Texas) Duration: 8-month contract Job Overview We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support a large-scale technology modernization and transformation initiative. This role involves advanced business analysis work across multiple interrelated projects, including SaaS/COTS implementations, data migration from legacy systems, and data warehouse development. The position requires minimal supervision and a high level of independent judgment, initiative, and leadership. The analyst will work closely with technical and business stakeholders to gather requirements, improve business processes, support testing efforts, and ensure high-quality deliverables using established business analysis methodologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform senior-level business analysis for complex technology initiatives involving emerging hardware and software solutions.
- Gather, analyze, document, and validate business and functional requirements using multiple elicitation techniques.
- Review, assess, and document current ( as-is ) and future-state ( to-be ) business processes.
- Support implementation of SaaS and COTS applications, data migration activities, and data warehouse solutions.
- Develop and maintain business analysis deliverables in accordance with established standards, methodologies, and procedures.
- Create, review, and validate user acceptance testing (UAT) plans, test cases, and testing documentation.
- Analyze production support issues, identify root causes, and document required system or data corrections.
- Facilitate workshops, interviews, and working sessions with business and cross-functional technical teams.
- Develop design documentation, process flows, diagrams, and technology specifications.
- Provide guidance to business and functional teams throughout testing, training, and implementation phases.
- Ensure consistency, quality, and traceability of all requirements and related documentation.
- May assign tasks to and provide guidance or oversight to other analysts.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of business analysis experience on software development projects, including preparation of project documentation.
- 10+ years of experience in requirements elicitation, stakeholder management, and technical documentation (use cases, traceability, prototyping, and data modeling).
- 10+ years facilitating interactive sessions with business users and cross-functional teams.
- 10+ years of strong analytical skills, including assessment of production support issues and root cause analysis.
- 10+ years developing and documenting business processes and functional designs.
- 10+ years defining functional designs and system specifications and delivering complete requirement packages.
- 10+ years supporting and guiding user acceptance testing, training, and implementation activities.
- 10+ years of excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, including technical writing.
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office and prototyping or diagramming tools such as Visio, Axure, SnagIt, or Adobe Illustrator.
Quality Assurance & Testing Experience
- 8+ years of knowledge and experience with Software Quality Assurance or Software Engineering methodologies.
- 8+ years writing, reviewing, and validating quality standards, test plans, and test cases.
- 8+ years translating business and functional requirements into test procedures.
- 8+ years of experience with the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- 8+ years of hands-on experience using JIRA (user stories, test cases, execution, and reporting).
- 8+ years of experience with smoke testing, regression testing, black-box testing, white-box testing, and both manual and automated testing.
- Advanced experience using Oracle and SQL queries for data validation and testing.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in Agile development environments.
- Experience developing web application test automation using Java, Selenium, or similar tools.
- Strong database skills, including creating test data and validating data updates.
- Experience supporting Salesforce projects.
- Background in process improvement strategies and methodologies.
- Proven ability to lead change initiatives and design more efficient business processes.
- Industry experience in Oil & Gas, compliance, or enforcement-related projects.
- Ability to work effectively within complex, multifaceted teams and manage challenging situations.
- Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
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