Business Analyst/Functional Tester
7 days ago
Reston VA, Fairfax County, VA; Virginia, United States
Swift Hire LLC
Full-time
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Location: Reston, VA
Title: Business Analyst/Functional Tester
Contract
The strongest candidates will have a Business Analyst/business-facing background with hands-on UAT experience and mortgage domain knowledge.
Required Skills
- Experience as a Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, UAT Analyst, Functional Analyst, or business-focused tester
- Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including test planning, test scenario development, execution, and defect tracking
- Ability to review business requirements, user stories, workflows, and acceptance criteria and translate them into meaningful business test scenarios
- Experience working directly with business users, Product Owners, Business Analysts, SMEs, and technology teams
- Experience validating business processes, business rules, and end-to-end workflows
- Mortgage industry experience, preferably within loan origination, underwriting, borrower verification, or related lending processes
- Experience preparing and managing business test scenarios and test data
- Experience documenting and tracking defects using Jira or similar tools
- Strong communication, analytical, and documentation skills
What You'll Do
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand mortgage processes, requirements, workflows, and expected business outcomes
- Help develop UAT test plans, business scenarios, test cases, and expected results
- Execute Business UAT to confirm that applications meet business requirements and support expected user workflows
- Validate borrower and loan-related processes, including areas such as income, employment, credit, identity, underwriting, and loan origination
- Validate business rules and identify gaps between expected business behavior and actual system behavior
- Prepare realistic borrower/loan scenarios and test data needed for UAT
- Document defects clearly in Jira and work with business and technology teams through resolution and retesting
- Participate in requirements discussions, story refinement, defect reviews, and UAT status meetings
- Provide clear testing results, risks, and issues to business stakeholders and project teams
- Support successful business sign-off and release readiness