Job description

**This is a Contract Role***

SQA Group is a tech and advisory services firm helping companies maximize two business differentiators — quality and data. We help both tech and business leaders see around corners, stand-up new capabilities, and elevate software quality and data as competitive advantages that help drive towards next.

SQA is partnering with a leading commercial insurer in Massachusetts to help support their development of technology solutions. We are seeking a Lead Business Analyst with strong experience working in Agile environments, including a breakdown of User Stories from epic to low-level stories and the definition of detailed acceptance criteria. The BA will work closely with Product Owners and internal stakeholders to gather/document complex requirements, create/refine user stories, and support testing. The Lead Business Analyst is responsible for collecting, evaluating, understanding, and communicating business requirements involved in developing new or modifying and ongoing support of existing enterprise business applications. This person will provide guidance and direction to other business analysts and other teams and may manage projects of significant scope and complexity.

What You’ll Do

• Participate in system requirements definition, testing, training, implementation, and support of enterprise-wide business applications
• Solicit business requirements through interviews, workshops, and/or existing system documentation or procedures
• Use industry-standard analysis techniques to uncover business requirements, such as data flow modeling, use case analysis, and workflow analysis
• Document the results of analysis activities using the appropriate templates and tools, and be a key contributor in the definition of what the appropriate templates and tools are.
• Make recommendations and influence outcome regarding necessary changes on deliverables expected from other groups
• Initiate and lead work with other development groups to ensure an integrated business solution.
• Assume the responsibility of the project manager for projects where the scope is at a significant level of complexity. These projects could be new initiatives or modifications to an existing application

What You Bring

• 10 years of experience as a Business Analyst or combined
• Experience working on an Agile Team
• Creation of acceptance criteria, test data strategy, test case scenarios, and end-to-end test plans
• Conduct various levels of testing, including manual, regression, and exploratory
• Experience with Processes Modeling
• Cost Benefit Analysis
• Requirements Gathering

Thank you for your interest in pursuing a career at SQA Group! This role is fully remote. SQA Group is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity. This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the person assigned to this position. The primary duties and responsibilities above are intended to describe those functions that are essential to the performance of this job. This job description does not state or imply that the above are the only duties and responsibilities assigned to this position. All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with a disability.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: From $70.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
Role is fully remote

Application Question(s):

• Are you open to consulting work?

Work Location: Remote

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