Business Analyst
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Job Location:
Reston, VA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Position: Business Analyst
Location: Reston VA #HYBRID (3 days a week)
Duration: 6months #C2H
In person interview
Job Description:
- The Agile Senior Business Analyst serves as a key liaison between business stakeholders and Agile delivery teams ensuring that evolving business needs are continuously understood prioritized and translated into actionable user stories and product features.
- This role is responsible for facilitating Agile ceremonies refining backlogs and driving iterative delivery of value through close collaboration with Product Owners Scrum Masters developers and QA teams.
- The incumbent ensures that business objectives are met by enabling adaptive planning early delivery and continuous improvement.
- Required Health insurance experience
- Experience with interacting with large scrum teams
- Hands-on experience with creating 10-15 user stories per week in JIRA
- Must be able to create 23 to 25 use case stories for every two weeks
- 5 years experience in functional operational business data systems or testing analysis.
- Previous experience working with ServiceNow application is required
- Proven ability to deliver high-quality Agile artifacts and contribute to cost-effective value-driven solutions.
- Preferred: Experience with ServiceNow iTSM module implementation
- Strong understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum Kanban SAFe) and business analysis core competencies.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office and Agile tools (e.g. Jira Confluence Azure DevOps).
Exceptional communication facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills. - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced dynamic environment with shifting priorities and multiple concurrent initiatives.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
20% Interprets business needs and issues by gathering eliciting creating analyzing documenting and validating the Business areas user and/or technical (functional/non-functional) requirements. Collaborate with Product Owners and stakeholders to elicit analyze and refine business needs into well-defined epics features and user stories. Facilitate backlog grooming sessions to ensure stories are INVEST-compliant (Independent Negotiable Valuable Estimable Small Testable). Define acceptance criteria and ensure traceability of requirements throughout the Agile lifecycle. Participates in the tracking and management of open issues and assists in planning for resolution. Participates in development sessions and design reviews in order to ensure design meets user requirements.
20% Responsible for the overall success of user acceptance testing including documentation verification and release. Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) planning and execution ensuring alignment with sprint goals and Definition of Done. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement process improvements that align with Agile principles. Analyze root causes of system or process issues and propose iterative solutions or enhancements. Actively participate in retrospectives to identify and act on opportunities for team and product improvement. Document test scenarios and coordinate defect triage and resolution with QA and development teams.
Support end users with training and release communications.
20% Identifies documents and troubleshoots problems utilizing acquired experience and knowledge of the relationships in systems software and processes. Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to monitor report and resolve issues. Participates in the development of solutions and workarounds that solve moderate to high complexity technical system and/or business issues.
20% Maintain clear and concise documentation of business processes workflows and system interactions using Agile-friendly formats (e.g. user story maps process flows). Ensure documentation evolves with the product and remains accessible and relevant. Communicate effectively across teams and stakeholders to ensure shared understanding and alignment.
10% Monitors and reports project status to identify and mitigate risks and to ensure quality and timely deliverables. Coordinates assigned projects from concept through implementation. Prioritize and manage new work requests.
10% Research and respond to policy-related inquiries impacting Agile delivery or system behavior. Ensure compliance with internal and external regulations especially those related to federal healthcare programs
Thanks & Regards
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LAXMAN
Team Lead - Talent Acquisition
KMM Technologies Inc.
CMMI Level 2 ISO 9001 ISO 20000 ISO 27000 Certified
Key Skills
- SQL
- Agile
- Business Analysis
- Visio
- Waterfall
- Business Process Modeling
- Requirements Gathering
- User Acceptance Testing
- Business requirements
- SDLC
- Systems Analysis
- Data Analysis Skills
