Job Description

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

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