Business Analyst

Business Analyst
Location: Remote
Salary: $85-130k
Sabot Consulting is seeking an experienced IT Business Analyst to provide business analysis and software quality assurance services for a software modernization project. This project aims to design and build the next generation of the planned application, and expand reporting and analysis capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Engage with business stakeholders to elicit and document requirements.
• Work closely with Product Owners to define and refine user stories with detailed acceptance criteria.
• Maintain and update the product backlog in coordination with Product Owners to ensure alignment with business priorities.
• Analyze current business processes and identify areas for improvement.
• Develop process models and workflows to document as-is and to-be states.
• Conduct gap analysis to determine differences between current and desired functionalities.
• Assist in the creation of prototypes or wireframes to support functional analysis and design discussions.
• Communicate backlog prioritization decisions with the Scrum Master.
• Design functional test cases and test scripts.
• Document and manage bugs in close coordination with the technical team and product owner.
• Conduct functional testing and document defects.
• Coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with business stakeholders.
• Ensure requirements traceability from user stories to test cases.

Must Have:

• Minimum of five years of experience in business analysis, including requirements gathering, process modeling, and functional analysis for custom software solutions.
• Minimum of five years of experience in software quality assurance, including test planning, test case development, functional and regression testing, and defect management for custom software solutions.
• Minimum of five years of experience working within a Scrum or other Agile methodology framework, collaborating with Product Owners, Scrum Teams, and stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience and expertise in using Azure DevOps for backlog management, user story tracking, test case management, and bug tracking.
• Minimum five years of QA background and UAT testing using various automated test scripts with a strong familiarity in SQL.

Nice To Have:

• Familiarity with public sector operations, including knowledge of government processes and regulatory environments.
• Familiarity with State level, major IT project oversight requirements and processes.
• Experience working with environmental, scientific, or hazardous waste information systems, including regulatory compliance and data management solution.
• Experience and familiarity with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and testing web applications for accessibility against WCAG 2.1 or later standards.
• Experience and familiarity with Power BI, .NET Core, and other Microsoft technologies, including their use in reporting, analytics, and enterprise application development.

About Us: Sabot Consulting is a management consulting company focused on providing technical and management consulting to IT executives and
managers in strategic, operational, and project-based practice areas. Our focus
on providing expert staff that have the knowledge, experience, and
professionalism to engage the client at all levels is the key to our success.