Sr. Business Analyst (Ref: 18831)

Position:  Sr. Business Analyst (Ref: 18831)

Location:  Richmond, VA USA, 23219

Salary:  $56.00/hr.

Duration:  8 Months 6 Days - Contract

Openings:  1

Deadline:  10/29/2026

Description:

***Local Candidates
***Onsite 4 days/week

We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst (Level 4) to join an enterprise public sector IT team in Richmond, VA. In this role, you will lead requirements elicitation, define system specifications, and support end-to-end SDLC processes for critical web application projects. You will also participate directly in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, author comprehensive test documentation, and perform hands-on manual functional testing to ensure solutions meet established standards.

Key Responsibilities
• Requirements Elicitation & Analysis: Lead project initiation activities to identify core problems and define scope. Elicit, analyze, and document complex business and functional requirements from multi-disciplinary stakeholders.
• SDLC Documentation: Produce clear, comprehensive, and SDLC-compliant Requirements Definition documents, user stories, workflows, and process models adhering to standard templates and governance guidelines.
• Agile Collaboration: Actively participate in daily Scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, and backlog refinement, representing business requirements directly to application development teams.
• Quality Assurance & Testing: Formulate and execute detailed system test plans and test scripts to validate software against documented requirements.
• Manual Testing & Defect Tracking: Perform manual testing across web applications, log clear and reproducible defects for developers, and verify fixes.
• UAT Support: Assist business users and project leadership in developing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) scripts and guide end-users through acceptance workflows.

Required Experience & Qualifications
• Business & Systems Analysis: Extensive background in structured business analysis, business process modeling, systems design, and full-lifecycle application delivery.
• Methodologies: Strong, proven expertise working within Agile frameworks (Scrum) as well as traditional SDLC environments.
• Documentation Excellence: Demonstrated ability to translate intricate business rules into clear, structured technical specifications suitable for both business leadership and technical development teams.
• Web Application Testing: Direct, hands-on experience authoring test plans/scripts and executing manual testing on complex web applications.
• Defect Management: Strong diagnostic skills with the ability to document application bugs, anomalies, and edge cases with exact steps to reproduce.
• Communication & Facilitation: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with experience facilitating meetings, driving consensus, and documenting project decisions.
• Experience working on custom web application development projects built on the Microsoft .NET framework.
• Prior experience managing backlogs, user stories, and requirements within Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) or Azure DevOps.

Work Logistics & Onsite Policy
• Schedule: Hybrid model requiring 4 days on site per week at the Richmond, VA office location, with 1 day remote.
• First Day: In-person attendance required on day one for equipment pickup and security badging.
• Interviews: Final interviews are conducted in-person only in Richmond, VA.
• Location: Richmond, VA (Hybrid: 4 days onsite, 1 day remote)
• Engagement Type: Contract
• Interview Mode: In-Person Interview Required

 

Required / Desired Skills

• Extensive experience in business and systems analysis, requirements documentation, system development life cycle, and agile application development. Required - 8 Years
• Extensive experience defining and documenting user requirements from multiple sources, prepare complex documents to effectively relay requirements. Required - 8 Years
• Extensive experience supporting application development, maintenance and implementation, systems analysis and design, and business process improvement Required - 8 Years
• Extensive experience defining and documenting business processes and mapping or developing processes in a new system. Required - 8 Years
• Considerable experience in testing complex systems to determine that business needs are met. Required - 8 Years
• Experience conducting meetings and documenting project decisions. Required - 8 Years
• Ability to successfully participate in a development team help foster a team environment, and effectively communicate both orally and in writing. Required - 8 Years
• Familiarity with web application software development projects using .NET Required - 2 Years
• Familiarity with documenting requirements in Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Required - 2 Years