IT Business Analyst

Department: Federal Services

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, Washington DC, Washington, DC, Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate requirements-gathering sessions with Government stakeholders.
• Analyze and document functional and business requirements.
• Develop user stories and detailed acceptance criteria.
• Develop and maintain Business Requirements Documents.
• Manage and refine product backlogs and maintain backlog information in JIRA.
• Support sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews and other Agile ceremonies.
• Coordinate among stakeholders, developers and QA/testing personnel.
• Plan and execute User Acceptance Testing.
• Document and track defects through resolution.
• Maintain program and application documentation in Confluence.
• Conduct business-process analysis and process modeling.
• Assist stakeholders with prioritizing requirements.
• Support application enhancements and new system capabilities.
• Assist development teams with interpreting business requirements.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• IT business and systems analysis
• Requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation
• User-story and acceptance-criteria development
• Business Requirements Documents
• Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies
• JIRA and Agile backlog management
• Confluence documentation
• User Acceptance Testing and defect management
• Business-process analysis and process modeling
• Stakeholder facilitation and requirements prioritization
• Collaboration with application development and QA/testing teams
• Data analysis

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree.
• Five or more years of hands-on experience in the required field.
• Demonstrated IT business-analysis experience.
• Experience eliciting and documenting requirements.
• Agile project experience.
• Experience developing user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with User Acceptance Testing and defect management.
• Experience working with technical development teams.