Requisition Name: Business Analyst 6 Location :- Lansing MI - Interview Process: 1st round interviews will be virtual interview via MS Teams video. Please use laptop and be prepared to share screen if asked. 2nd round interviews will be held in-person. Candidates must be available for an in-person interview. - Duration: Duration: 1 year with desire for contractor to convert to fulltime with SOMI in 1-2 years. At the time of conversion. - Hybrid: Resource will be working a hybrid schedule. NO REMOTE ONLY OPTION. Will need to be onsite from day 1, two days a week. - Local candidates ONLY. Candidates must be located in Michigan within 90 minutes of Lansing, MI Job Description :- Lead artifact reviews with peers, system specialists, Enterprise Security and other Client entities to ensure IT solutions and applications adhere to Client and agency policies, standards or guidelines. Participate in Solutions Design Team meetings and assist in creation of the Enterprise Architecture Solution Assessment (EASA) Develop System diagram and Dataflow diagrams for Request for Proposal (RFP) documentation. Collaborate with Product Owner to write clear and concise agile user stories with acceptance criteria using BDD or Gherkin format (Given/When/then). Assist Product Owner in prioritizing the product backlog based on business value, risk and dependencies. Conduct sprint ceremonies like backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint demo, and refinement sessions. Develop and maintain Test Plans, Test Cases and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM). Perform Functional and Regression testing and facilitate User Acceptance Testing. Experience & Skills: Required A bachelor’s degree in a business-related field such as business administration, information technology, finance, or marketing (or a similar field). Strong experience working in Agile/Hybrid environments, translating business requirements into user stories with acceptance criteria. Ability to break down complex business requirements into smaller user stories for development teams, while ensuring that technical constraints, limitations and dependencies are considered. Experience working on projects involving vendor owned, designed and hosted solutions. Excellent verbal and written communication. The preferred candidate must possess and demonstrate strong troubleshooting. Experience & Skills: Preferred 4+ years Business Analyst or similar experience 4+ years Agile experience Experience using Azure Devops or similar tool for work item management and source control. Recent experience of working in an Agile development environment, e.g. Scrum or Kanban Experience with Microsoft tool such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio Experience with Oracle or SQL Servers