Sr Business Analyst

The Health and Civil Sector is seeking a Sr Business Analyst to work primarily as a Telecommuter but travel within the DC Metro area is expected. Local candidates preferred.

MUST be located in the US currently and for the current three consecutive years.

MUST be a US Citizen or US Person with the ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance.

Travel may be required.

The chosen candidate will work with a variety of stakeholders, including senior IT leaders, and subject matter experts and will be responsible for

Stakeholder management, requirement elicitation, preparing estimations for business analysis tasks and deliverables, systems analysis, preparing functional specifications using user stories, acceptance criteria and use case narration.

Ensuring unique business needs are properly translated to functional specifications and provide a system solution, assessing options for process improvement, leading cross functional team collaborations, assisting with the maintenance of project schedules and developing various status reports.

Job Requirements

• Plan out business analysis efforts, including stakeholder analysis, communication planning, and elicitation techniques.
• Facilitate requirements meetings, interview sessions, brainstorming, documentation analysis, and other techniques as necessary.
• Support customer meetings to understand current client business practices and business needs supporting requirements analysis.
• Ensure that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.
• Understand, Extract and Document user requirements from existing systems, including interactions and interfaces, to support user experience.
• Validate requirements with business stakeholders and team members.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and team members regarding requirements development and translation into software specifications.
• Support traceability efforts from high-level business needs through functional validation
• Lead/Participate in requirements prioritization and product backlog grooming sessions.
• Write detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions and dependencies required to develop or modify applications.
• Manage changes to baselined requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools.
• Coordinate the stage gate review process including assembling document packages and working with team members to complete required documentation.
• Work closely with developers and testers to ensure all requirements are understood and have corresponding test scripts.
• Manage the documentation for multiple applications and releases across more than one development team while meeting deadlines.
• Assist Program Manager in maintaining concurrent project schedules.
• Document weekly and monthly status.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of work experience in Information Technology as a Business Analyst and/or Tester in an Agile environment.
• Must be able to qualify for a Public Trust clearance.
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