Senior Business Analyst

What You Will Do:

• Lead efforts to elicit and document business and technical requirements as User Stories, Features, and Epics in a Product Backlog and support testing throughout the sprint cycle, using a blend of analysis, technical, business, testing, and critical thinking skills.
• Partner with Product Management to understand business/technology needs and create/refine user stories, ensuring the Team Product Backlog is kept primed with 1-2 sprints' worth of work.
• Manage the Product Backlog throughout the course of the project to ensure all User Stories have a definition of done, are fully testable, and will meet specific business and technical needs.
• Understand and actively participate in refinement, story pointing, sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Understand and document process flows for current, transition, and future states, including identification and analysis of gaps.
• Write functional and non-functional requirements in the form of acceptance criteria, using the GHERKIN method. Utilize a wide variety of requirements techniques to supplement user stories where appropriate (decision tables, wireframes, story mapping, etc.).
• Conduct sprint and system demos that focus on delivered value and soliciting actionable feedback.
• Develop and present routine and ad hoc project management reports.
• Ensure all project guidance, work products, and related documents are updated and posted to a common document repository.
• Assist in the preparation of client and system user documentation to include user manuals and system administration manuals.
• Identify and assess process and operational inefficiencies, identify gaps, and develop recommendations on business process improvements and support the implementation and monitoring activities associated with these initiatives.

What You Need:

• Bachelor's Degree or related experience.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance. US Citizen or Green Card EAD is required.
• 10 years of experience as a Business Analyst or similar role, with a strong focus on IT projects. Proven experience working in Agile environments and leading Agile ceremonies.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Proven experience in documenting business processes, developing user stories, and managing a Product Backlog over multiple releases.
• Experience working with Jira, Azure DevOps, or other agile management tools.