Business Analyst
Albany, NY
Contracted
Experienced
“Join GD Resources for dynamic opportunities in business management and IT, where innovation meets excellence.”
About the Company:
GD Resources is a Veteran Women-Owned Business Management and Information Technology company committed to excellence. GD Resources provides dynamic opportunities for veterans and professionals alike to contribute to innovative projects and drive success in a collaborative and supportive environment. Join us to make a difference, advance your career, and grow with a company that values integrity, diversity, and continuous improvement.
Disclaimer: Applicants must be located within a commutable distance to the job site. Please do not apply if you are not within reasonable commuting range, relocation is not available for this position. Thank you for understanding.
Job Title: Business Analyst
Place of Performance: Albany, NY (Hybrid, remote option is negotiable)
Minimum Experience: 7+ years relevant experience
Rate: $37/hr - $61/hr (Final offer will depend on experience)
Employment Type: Contract
Duration: 30 Months
Position Overview:
The Business Analyst will support system modernization for grant processing and financial systems. This role will assist project managers by defining business processes, documenting requirements, and supporting testing efforts.
Key Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
About the Company:
GD Resources is a Veteran Women-Owned Business Management and Information Technology company committed to excellence. GD Resources provides dynamic opportunities for veterans and professionals alike to contribute to innovative projects and drive success in a collaborative and supportive environment. Join us to make a difference, advance your career, and grow with a company that values integrity, diversity, and continuous improvement.
Disclaimer: Applicants must be located within a commutable distance to the job site. Please do not apply if you are not within reasonable commuting range, relocation is not available for this position. Thank you for understanding.
Job Title: Business Analyst
Place of Performance: Albany, NY (Hybrid, remote option is negotiable)
Minimum Experience: 7+ years relevant experience
Rate: $37/hr - $61/hr (Final offer will depend on experience)
Employment Type: Contract
Duration: 30 Months
Position Overview:
The Business Analyst will support system modernization for grant processing and financial systems. This role will assist project managers by defining business processes, documenting requirements, and supporting testing efforts.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct business process analysis and facilitate stakeholder sessions.
- Write and manage user stories, workflows, and test cases.
- Translate requirements into actionable development items.
- Track and report project progress using Agile/Waterfall methodology.
- Assist in the creation of RFPs and business documentation.
- Support UAT execution, test validation, and result analysis.
- Collaborate with developers, testers, and SMEs across departments.
- Utilize tools like Jira, Confluence, Visio, and SharePoint.
- Support legacy system migration and ensure data quality in testing.
- Create and maintain standard operating procedures and project artifacts.
Qualifications:
- 84 months experience in requirements elicitation, business analysis and validation, translating business needs, expectations, constraints and interfaces into actionable technical objectives and identifying solutions by producing written documentation in textual form, visual models and graphical illustration for all stages - system design, requirements, testing & implementation.
- 84 months of experience under project manager supervision, in interacting and following-up with multiple stakeholders including but not limited to program leaders, SMEs, process owners, IT staff, etc. for facilitating JAD/JRP sessions, driving accountability and/or responsibility for assigned tasks completion.
- 84 months of experience in utilizing various business analysis techniques in Agile to derive and document user stories from business requirements. This includes creating and maintaining documentation throughout the SDLC (e.g., business / use-case development, fit-gap analysis, process flows, mockups, sequence diagrams, wireframes, impact & feasibility analysis, change control, etc.), tracking and reporting of risks, inconsistencies and issues during design, requirements’ gathering, testing and UAT phases.
- 84 months experience establishing criteria for evaluation, validation and acceptance of deliverable / ‘Done’ criteria, manage requirements scope, key decisions tracking, tracing requirements completion, obtaining commitment to the requirements and approvals from the project participants. This includes identifying and recording inconsistencies in requirements and clarifying with management for a clear and common understanding of business and IT teams.
- 84 months of experience in all types of testing (including functional, non-functional, regressions, integration, UAT, etc.) of applications, business process validations reporting needs and data sanity checks. This includes writing and executing various types of test cases, testing procedures & cycles, manual and automated testing using Selenium and/or similar tools, defects tracking, bugs resolution, periodic testing results communication and requirements-based validation/testing for final deliverables sign-off.
- 72 months experience in supporting cross-functional process-driven cloud-based solutions such as gov.grants, Salesforce, Outsystems, and more.
- 84 months experience in providing business analysis and testing support for legacy systems/data migration and infrastructure upgrade projects involving cloud-based commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, and/or custom development, process improvement strategies, configurations, troubleshooting incidents and quality assurance.
- 72 months experience using Atlassian online tools, such as Jira and Confluence.
- 84 months of experience in standardizing requirements gathering processes, RFP/RFQ writing, grants management, review / approval mechanisms, implementing standard operating procedures for requirements management, document versioning and control during requirements’ changes, and upkeep of project artifacts in a dynamic environment.
- 84 months of experience in Business Analysis and Testing tools – Microsoft Office products including Visio, SharePoint, Project, Power Automate, Dynamics, etc., Jira/Confluence, Salesforce, DocuSign, Tableau, COGNOS, TFS, HP QC, Selenium, Zephyr, etc.
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