Business Process & Project Analyst
Electronic Systems, Inc. · Fairfax, VA · 4 mo ago
ManagementContract
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document business requirements, functional specifications, and process flows.
- Conduct user-oriented discovery activities, including understanding workflows, mapping user journeys, and identifying friction points in business processes (user journey mapping and requirement clarity emphasized as key BA skills).
- Facilitate workshops, interviews, and working sessions to gather insights and validate requirements (supported as a critical BA facilitation skill).
- Translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements for operational and technical teams.
- Analyze current business processes to identify inefficiencies and recommend improvements, aligned with top BA process modeling competencies.
- Partner with stakeholders to assess the usability impacts of proposed changes and ensure processes remain intuitive and user-centered.
- Support test planning and validation by reviewing test plans, validating test cases, and conducting or assisting with user acceptance testing (UAT).
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in business analysis, project management, or process improvement.
- Demonstrated experience gathering and analyzing requirements for small and complex projects, consistent with BA analytical competencies.
- Experience supporting or managing small to mid-sized projects.
- Strong understanding of business process modeling and improvement methodologies, aligned with BA process-modeling expectations.
- Able to map workflows, analyze user interactions, and assess process usability.
- Excellent facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills, supported as core BA competencies.
- Proficiency with tools such as Microsoft Office, Visio, LucidChart, Project, JIRA, Confluence, or similar platforms.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, evolving environment.