Business Systems Analyst III
Jersey City, NJ

Job Description

Who we are...

Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility. We develop technology-enabled solutions that help the world move safely and easily. We are fostering the development of safe cities, working with police departments and municipalities to install over 4,000 red-light, speed, and school bus stop arm safety cameras across North America. We are also creating smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for over 8.5 million vehicles. And we are a leading provider of connected systems, processing nearly 165 million transactions each year across 50+ individual tolling authorities. http://verramobility.com/

Position Overview

The Commercial Fleet business is hiring a Business Analyst for its tolling software platform in our Jersey City office. The Business Analyst will play a key role in defining requirements, ensuring the technical team and quality assurance team understand the requirements and work with the team during the entire development cycle. The Business Analyst will work directly with internal and external clients to gather requirements and confirm functionality through UAT activities prior to deployment. The Business Systems Analyst will also confirm test cases cover requirements and review the test case result suite.

Essential Responsibilities

* Documenting the Epics, Features and Stories associated with our tolling platforms.
* Play a leading role for the team in fulfilling Agile software development efforts including:
* Lead requirements gathering effort on the epics, as needed - consulting with product management, implementations, clients, and other stakeholders.
* Document story details based on the epics in coordination with development.
* Attend scrum meetings including standups, retrospectives, and demos.
* Participate in or lead backlog grooming to decompose and estimate stories
* Create mockups and works with UX on design.
* Answer questions from developers and clarify requirements.
* Document the new feature for implementations and release notes.
* Write acceptance criteria in partnership with Product Manager and direct manager.
* Demonstrate the latest iterations to customers (pre-release) and gather feedback in partnership with the Product Manager.
* Collaborate with the team including direct employees, contractors, full-time and temporary staff
* Collaborate with Managers and Directors within Corporate IT, Service Delivery, Product Management and other support teams to ensure the optimal design and delivery of solutions.
* Role model collaboration to build a culture that draws Product and Development teams closer together.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidate must have experience in each of the following areas (3 or more years of experience required for each unless otherwise stipulated).

* Bachelor's degree preferably in related field (equivalent years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree)
* Participating in large-scale strategic and multi-faceted projects with a proven ability to meet delivery deadlines and deliver required functionality
* Experience interfacing with all levels of an organization to communicate status, escalate problems, frame opportunities and guide decision making
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written forms; explain technical concepts in non-technical terms to individuals
* Ability to work in teams, general Consulting Skills, Strong analysis skills, Attention to detail, adaptability, demonstrate initiative and work independently with a minimum of supervision.
* Experience with Agile methodology
* Business Analyst experience
* Previous experience updating an existing system
* Creating use cases and business process diagrams
* Gathering and documenting business/technical requirements
* Assessing technical constraints and considerations
* Development of User Stories
* Ability to be an integral part of Backlog refinement
* Creating wire frames, and building functional designs
* Experience with business cases
* Experience with process flows
* Experience with technical and functional specifications
* Experience with acceptance criteria
* Ability to lead JAD working sessions/interviews (or equivalent methodologies)
* Hands-on business process and requirements analysis including documenting as-is and designing to-be business processes.
* Document application functionality & perform validation checks to ensure business requirement/design specifications alignments
* Experience with Visio
* Experience with Team Foundation Server (TFS) (preferred)
* Systems Analyst experience (preferred)
* Advanced skills with MS Office tools: Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Visio.

Aligned with Verra Mobility Values:

* Do What's Right - We've committed to doing the right thing for each other and for our customers - integrity is our DNA
* Lead With Grace - We embrace the importance of our colleagues and customers and always treat them with kindness and grace.
* Own It - We foster a culture of accountability and excellence, where going the extra mile is standard practice.
* Win Together - We are ambitious and like to win, but we know we win more when we include others and work together