Senior Business Analyst @ CGI

Position Description:The ideal candidate for this position is a problem solver. As a Senior Business Analyst, you are an experienced analyst proficient in requirements definition and development. You can build strong relationships with your clients and your team and can manage stakeholder expectations. Candidates who are extremely organized and thrive on making processes run efficiently will do well in this position. If you are looking for a place where you can grow your skills while working with a friendly, dynamic team, this is the role for you.This position is located in our Fairfax, VA, Lafayette, LA or Knoxville, TN office; however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.CGI is unable to sponsor international hires for this position. US Citizenship requiredYour future duties and responsibilities:A Senior Business Analyst is a go to person with expertise in the application and the project. You are not afraid to dig into the details, find the outliers, test the edge cases, and keep the team running. Your responsibilities may include but are not limited to: Organize the daily activities of a software development project team Translate client business needs into functional and technical requirements. Create detailed development tickets and track requirements through the development process. Interact with client during JAD sessions.Run daily scrums, organize sprints, and conduct all team agile ceremonies. Remove blockers so that the team can accomplish sprint goals.Interact with advanced business analysts and solution developers to communicate and validate requirements.Perform functional and integrated testing to test application functionality against client requirements Prepare and maintain project documentation and artifacts including analysis, reports and user documentation.Work with project managers, developers, and end users to ensure application designs meet business requirements.Assist in all phases of software systems programming applications.Evaluate new and existing software products.Author and prepare meeting minutes to be distributed to a variety of audiencesAuthor user stories, test scripts, acceptance criteria, and other Agile deliverables Prepare and deliver application demos to clients and other stakeholder audiences
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:Bachelor's degree in a business related field or information systems management preferred Minimum 8 years work experience as a business analyst and/or functional lead Ability to travel to client site as needed Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle Strong analytical and writing skills Excellent communication skillsAbility to work effectively within a team environment under tight timelines? Ability to multi task and support multiple projects at once? Experience working with JIRA and ConfluenceProactive attitude and willingness to take on any task as required to support the client and the teamDesired qualifications/non essential skills requiredCSM certification desired but not required. Experience authoring SQL queries will strongly benefit a candidate.Skills:Agile TestingAtlassian ConfluenceCommunicationJiraRequirements Analysis