Business Analyst with Web Services experience

Role: Business Analyst

Client: DC government

Location: Washington, D.C. (remote)

Job Description:

The role will require you to do detailed analysis of the existing system functionality, business solution and business processes, conceptualization and experimenting with alternative business approaches, development and creation of service-oriented components and interface specifications to enhance the capabilities of current agency application. This involves customer interaction with stakeholders to determine business requirements, documentation of existing modules and new enhancements with business rule changes, extensive testing – unit, stress and regression and quality assurance.

You will work to gain an understanding of the current system infrastructure, security needs, network considerations, methodologies. In this role, you will primarily focus on working with customers and team members to elicit requirements, validate and understand with customers, interpret and design business requirements into writing technical specifications, business re-engineering, high and low-level design, test the application, and implement with minimal coaching. You will perform technical analysis, technical design, unit testing, and deployment, meet deadlines, and effectively manage priorities while communicating progress.

Participate in specification reviews throughout the software life cycle. Analyze dependencies between development projects. Work with QA by participating in test plan reviews and attending triage meetings.

Skills:

• 6+ years of Enterprise Web Development experience
• 5 years of experience in working with Web Based and Client/Server Applications
• Experience in working with JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, GitHub
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration and Continuous Development practice

Responsibilities:

• The business analyst position requires in-depth knowledge of Web-Enabled and Client/Server Applications, data structures, and business process optimization of application programs.
• Work with subject matter experts to elicit requirements, validate, interpret and design business requirements into writing technical specifications.
• Perform business re-engineering, high and low-level design, test the application, and implement with minimal coaching.
• Conduct technical analysis, technical design, unit testing, and deployment.
• Meet deadlines while effectively managing priorities and communicating progress.
• Participate in specification reviews throughout the software life cycle.
• Analyze dependencies between development projects.
• Work with QA by participating in test plan reviews and attending triage meetings.
• Ensure that the technologies are updated with current, stable, and compliant with Atlassian tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
• Collaborate with internal teams to produce requirements.
• Proactively monitor and report performance utilization across business requirements.
• Determine the best course of action for meeting business needs and provide consultative expertise to customers on how to best use systems.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.
• May coordinate and work with application developers.
• Able to identify best practices and standards for the use of the product.
• Deliver support and design for industry-specific applications that require integration with statewide systems or applications.
• Interact with executive level business users or technical experts.

This is a remote position.