Business Analyst

• Senior Business Analyst – Agile / Azure DevOps | W2 Only
• Location: Lansing, MI | within 90 miles
• Work Mode: Hybrid – Wednesdays & Thursdays onsite
• Duration: 1+ Year Contract with potential extension

Local candidates preferred/required within approximately 90 miles of Lansing, MI.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to partner with Product Owners, business stakeholders, project leadership, and delivery teams. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in requirements gathering, business process analysis, Agile/Scrum delivery, UAT, and Azure DevOps backlog management.

• Key Responsibilities
• Gather, analyze, and document business and user requirements.
• Develop detailed business and technical requirements documentation.
• Create process maps, workflow diagrams, business operating procedures, and system interaction diagrams.
• Identify process improvement opportunities, manual processes, workarounds, and exception-handling procedures.
• Partner with Product Owners to refine and maintain product backlogs.
• Develop user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, testing, and implementation.
• Coordinate UAT activities with business stakeholders.
• Track test execution, results, defects, and acceptance decisions.
• Support business process testing and release readiness.
• Create training plans, job aids, quick reference guides, and process documentation.
• Facilitate knowledge-transfer and stakeholder readiness activities.
• Maintain Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks in Azure DevOps.
• Support ADO dashboards, queries, reporting, and documentation.
• Document business rules, validation rules, and exception-processing requirements.
• Maintain project documentation, knowledge bases, repositories, and project wikis.
• Support Agile/Scrum ceremonies and organizational delivery processes.

• Required Qualifications
• 8+ years of experience gathering requirements from users and stakeholders.
• 6+ years of experience developing business and technical requirements documentation.
• 4+ years of experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies and ceremonies.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience managing Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks using Azure DevOps.
• CBAP Certification required.

• Preferred Qualifications
• Strong experience with Azure DevOps backlog and work-item management.
• Experience supporting Product Owners in Agile delivery environments.
• Experience with UAT planning, test scenarios, and business validation.
• Experience documenting current-state and future-state business processes.
• Experience developing training materials and organizational-readiness documentation.
• Experience with process modeling/workflow tools such as Bizagi.
• Strong stakeholder facilitation, communication, and documentation skills.
• Experience with large-scale government, healthcare, financial, or enterprise implementations.
• Experience documenting complex integrations, data flows, and business processes.