Kforce has a client in Kansas City, MO that is seeking a Business Analyst for a short-term contract opportunity. Summary: The Business Analyst interacts with IT and business roles to elicit requirements and shape demand into work items for application development teams. The BA will become a subject matter expert on multiple applications supported by the IT group. Works with developers and business contacts to ensure that requirements and acceptance criteria are captured, documented, and demonstrated throughout the application development life cycle. You will ensure operational acceptance and ongoing evaluation of continuous improvement of applications. Responsibilities: * Become deeply familiar with business capabilities, functions, and processes, including roles and tools supporting business * Lead &/or participate in business process analysis sessions with internal clients to determine requirements * Business Analyst will elicit and translate business functional and technical requirements into work items used by application development teams * Lead requirement refinement sessions to ensure a full understanding of deliverables for the team and stakeholders involved in the application development lifecycle * Collaborate with quality assurance to ensure testing outcomes align with acceptance criteria and business intent * Continuously review requirements to ensure that new or modified software conforms to enterprise standards and suggest modifications to conform to said standards as needed * Interact with Customers performing triage of break fix items to identify appropriate development resource(s) after observing or duplicating errors in test environments and providing this information to the team * As a Business Analyst, you will collaborate with project management on scope management and controls