Sr Business Analyst

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Sr. Business Analyst

The Business Analyst is responsible for developing a comprehensive knowledge of mortgage operations generally.

The person in this role will create vision documents, requirements documents, user stories, test cases, test scripts, and other documents in the software development lifecycle.

Key Job Functions

• Elicit input from multiple stakeholders and synthesize feedback to create technical work products and drive outcomes
• Create high quality, comprehensive work products, such as : vision and scope documents, business requirements, user stories, technical specifications, test cases, source to target mappings and test scripts
• Contribute to maintaining an environment where continuous improvement of the development process is in focus and where everyone's common goal is to deliver outstanding software as fast as possible
• Help coach and teach team members. Translate and simplify requirements to better enable those less familiar with the subject matter to be successful
• Lead meetings, facilitate sessions, and participate in agile ceremonies
• Understand multiple integrations including the triggers, timing, directionality, and data exchanged
• Use tools such as Postman to assist with integration testing
• Work with developers directly to remediate defects and clarify testing objectives -Work with automated testing team to ensure full coverage between automated and manual functional testing
• Work side-by-side with end users to validate requirements and resolve conflicts

Must Have's :

The Business Analyst is responsible for developing a comprehensive knowledge of mortgage operations generally.

The person in this role will create vision documents, requirements documents, user stories, test cases, test scripts, and other documents in the software development lifecycle.

Key Job Functions

• Elicit input from multiple stakeholders and synthesize feedback to create technical work products and drive outcomes
• Create high quality, comprehensive work products, such as : vision and scope documents, business requirements, user stories, technical specifications, test cases, source to target mappings and test scripts
• Contribute to maintaining an environment where continuous improvement of the development process is in focus and where everyone's common goal is to deliver outstanding software as fast as possible
• Help coach and teach team members. Translate and simplify requirements to better enable those less familiar with the subject matter to be successful
• Lead meetings, facilitate sessions, and participate in agile ceremonies
• Understand multiple integrations including the triggers, timing, directionality, and data exchanged
• Use tools such as Postman to assist with integration testing
• Work with developers directly to remediate defects and clarify testing objectives -Work with automated testing team to ensure full coverage between automated and manual functional testing
• Work side-by-side with end users to validate requirements and resolve conflicts

Must Have's :

• Familiarity with the mortgage industry to include working knowledge of mortgage data
• Experience with the Agile software development methodology
• Experience with requirements capture and writing user stories
• Proficiency with test planning, construction, and artifact management software, such as Rational Quality Manager
• Experience in writing or executing quality assurance test cases with a focus on TDD

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Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, New York, Washington, and the District of Columbia is :

$76,300-$178,600 USD

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