Senior Business Analyst Azure DevOps & UAT

The 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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