Senior Business Analyst - Azure DevOps & UATThe strongest candidate is a
CBAP-certified Senior Business Analyst who can independently lead complex requirements and process-analysis activities while remaining closely connected to delivery, testing, and implementation.
You know how to challenge unclear requirements, uncover the real business need, model current and future processes, create development-ready requirements, maintain a disciplined Azure DevOps backlog, support UAT, and prepare users for successful adoption.
You are equally comfortable facilitating a stakeholder discovery session, writing detailed requirements, reviewing user stories with a Product Owner, coordinating UAT, analyzing a process gap, and creating the documentation needed to support a successful production release.
Work Location / Schedule Onsite 3 days a week in Lansing, MI
Project or Role Overview The Senior Business Analyst will partner with Product Owners, business stakeholders, project leadership, and delivery teams to support discovery, business-process analysis, backlog management, user acceptance testing, training readiness, and implementation activities.
The role requires substantial experience with
enterprise requirements analysis, Agile/Scrum delivery, Azure DevOps backlog management, process modeling, UAT, documentation, and business readiness.
Key Responsibilities Business Analysis & Process Modeling - Facilitate discovery and requirements-gathering activities with business stakeholders.
- Analyze business needs and translate them into clear, actionable requirements.
- Develop current-state and future-state process maps.
- Create workflow diagrams and business operating procedures.
- Identify process-improvement opportunities and operational impacts.
- Identify and document manual processes, workarounds, and exception-handling procedures.
- Develop end-to-end business and system-interaction diagrams.
- Document business rules, validation requirements, and exception-processing logic.
Product Owner & Backlog Support - Partner with Product Owners to refine and maintain product backlogs.
- Gather, analyze, clarify, and document requirements supporting epics, features, user stories, and tasks.
- Develop and refine user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Maintain requirements traceability across development, testing, and implementation.
- Provide recommendations regarding business validation and backlog readiness.
User Acceptance Testing - Coordinate User Acceptance Testing activities with business stakeholders.
- Develop or support UAT strategies, scenarios, and business-validation plans.
- Track UAT execution, test results, defects, and acceptance decisions.
- Support end-to-end business-process testing.
- Assess business and release readiness.
- Maintain UAT evidence and support acceptance recommendations.
Training & Organizational Readiness - Support development of training plans and end-user training materials.
- Create job aids, quick-reference guides, process documentation, and operational materials.
- Support stakeholder communication, readiness, and adoption activities.
- Facilitate training and knowledge-transfer sessions.
Azure DevOps - Maintain and organize Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks in Azure DevOps.
- Support Kanban and Sprint board management.
- Maintain traceability between requirements, testing, and implementation.
- Assist with ADO dashboards, queries, reporting, and documentation.
Documentation & Governance - Create and maintain business and technical requirements documentation.
- Maintain process, project, training, and reference documentation.
- Support compliance with organizational project-delivery and governance standards.
- Maintain documentation repositories, knowledge bases, and project wikis.
Required Qualifications - 8+ years of experience gathering requirements from users and business stakeholders.
- 6+ years of experience designing and documenting technical and business requirements.
- 4+ years of experience working within Agile/Scrum methodologies, processes, and ceremonies.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience maintaining and organizing Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks using Azure DevOps backlog-management tools, including Kanban and Sprint boards.
- Current CBAP certification.
- Strong business-analysis and requirements-management expertise.
- Strong stakeholder facilitation and communication skills.
- Strong written documentation capabilities.
- Experience translating business needs into actionable requirements.
- Experience supporting enterprise technology implementations.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience supporting Product Owners in Agile delivery environments.
- Experience developing UAT plans, test scenarios, and business-validation strategies.
- Experience coordinating User Acceptance Testing.
- Experience creating training plans, training materials, job aids, and operational-readiness documentation.
- Experience documenting current-state and future-state business processes.
- Experience with process-modeling tools such as Bizagi.
- Experience supporting large-scale government, healthcare, financial-services, or enterprise-system implementations.
- Experience documenting complex business-program integrations and data flows.
- Strong requirements traceability experience.
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