Temporary Senior Business Analyst

About this role

Senior Business Analyst

Temporary Assignment (through 2/13/2027)

Remote, USA, Ad hoc Travel may be required (1-2 times/year)

EMKS is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Independent Enterprise Testing Support Services (IETSS) contract. This project provides Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) services to support the product Software Delivery Life Cycle and Modernization efforts on behalf of our Veterans Affairs (VA) government client. In our continuing efforts to implement more of our IV&V activities, we are looking for a Senior Business Analyst to help support and modernize the Testing Intake Assessment activities.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Identifying, coordinating and reviewing Portfolio/Product/Project requirements/Epics/User Stories and User Acceptance criterion (includes interaction/sync with product owner, Scrum Master and other work streams/teams)
• Creating System of Records and workbooks for evaluating business risk and criticality based on the fit for purpose description of the requirements.
• Evaluating, recommending, and implementing risk identification and business impact from a criticality point of view.
• Maintaining, and upgrading System of record artifacts for systems under test (SUT) in approved enterprise repositories such as MS Share Point
• Understanding project architecture, test environment, test data needs based on the System build scope
• Conducting thorough evaluation of the SUT by analyzing and comprehending requirements
• Identifying and dispositioning risk assessment functions as per approved standards and processes
• Writing detailed functional risk justification and mitigation strategies reports to ensure that system/product/service requirements are met.
• Serving as facilitator providing pre-testing intake assessment know-how for the support of user requirements of routine, complex to highly complex software/hardware health and other IT applications.
• Working b...