Business Analyst (Hybrid, local to DC/MD/VA)

Responsibilities

• Craft effective, professional, executive level communications to support IT projects and initiatives
• Own the intake process for all documentation/writing tasks from multiple Stakeholders, prioritize completion of final products
• Meet with stakeholders to intake requirements and translate to Behavior Driven Development User Stories
• Strong ability to reconcile business/technical/user flows and feature requirements
• Leverage communication skills to work with product owners and end-users to enhance requirements gathering and feedback for Scrum Teams
• Complete functional analysis of requirements as needed
• Act as Scrum Master owning appropriate DevOps/Agile ceremonies in coordination, execution, documentation, and reporting on test activities and functional analysis completed by teams
• Cook up and coordinate, execute, document, and report on test activities required to support the integration and systems interfaces
• Work with development teams and Project Managers to resolve test defects
• Estimate level of effort based upon tasks and responsibilities specific to tester functions
• Cook up with other teams to facilitate Change Management activities

Qualifications

• Required Skills and Experience:
  • Bachelor’s Degree in a technical or business field with 2-5 years (or commensurate experience)
  • Experience in JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics
  • Experience working on a scrum team and in a Scrum environment
  • Candidates for this role must be proficient in both the Technical Writing and Business Analyst aspects of this position.
  • Possesses exceptional communication, analytical, and writing skills
  • Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills
  • Able to work collaboratively in a fast paced team environment
  • Must be a U.S citizen
• Preferred Skills And Experience:
  • Proven ability to work in a team-oriented environment
  • Experience supporting government agencies, specifically DHS
  • Planning, implementing, and executing software testing processes

Benefits

GovCIO offers a competitive salary range of USD $75,000.00 - USD $85,000.00 /Yr.