Senior Agile Business Analyst, Tester

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in District of Columbia, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, Product Owners, technical teams, and program leadership to grasp business objectives, processes, and technological needs.

• Gather, analyze, document, and validate both functional and technical requirements.

• Develop and maintain epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, business requirements, process flows, and associated documentation.

• Create clear, detailed, and testable user stories for the development and QA teams.

• Work closely with Product Owners and development teams to refine and prioritize the product backlog.

• Facilitate Agile ceremonies which include backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning.

• Act as a primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.

• Formulate and implement UAT strategies, test scenarios, test cases, and validation plans.

• Coordinate UAT activities with business users, QA, development, and product teams.

• Ensure delivered functionality aligns with documented business requirements and acceptance criteria.

• Identify, document, prioritize, and monitor blockers and defects until resolution.

• Utilize JIRA for managing requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, defects, tasks, sprint activities, and reporting.

• Analyze technical issues alongside developers and technical leads to identify root causes and solutions.

• Support technical delivery encompassing applications, integrations, APIs, databases, data flows, environments, and system dependencies.

• Assist with end-to-end software development and implementation activities from requirements gathering to post-production support.

• Monitor risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and action items.

• Provide program management assistance, including status reporting, milestone tracking, meeting coordination, RAID management, dependency tracking, and management updates.

• Coordinate efforts across multiple teams and workstreams to support delivery timelines and program milestones.

• Help ensure release readiness and resolve outstanding defects, requirements, and UAT issues.

• Identify opportunities for process improvements in business analysis, testing, Agile delivery, and program processes.

• Maintain project documentation and communicate requirements, testing status, risks, issues, and delivery progress.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, QA Analyst/Tester, or in a similar role within technology delivery environments.

• Significant experience in Agile/Scrum environments.

• Proven experience in gathering, analyzing, and documenting business and technical requirements.

• Extensive experience in crafting user stories and detailed acceptance criteria.

• Strong hands-on experience with UAT planning coordination, execution, and defect management.

• Advanced knowledge of JIRA, including managing user stories, epics, tasks, defects, workflows, dashboards, and reports.

• Strong technical comprehension of software applications, system integrations, APIs, databases, data flows, and SDLC processes.

• Experience collaborating directly with software development and QA teams.

• Ability to convert business requirements into clear, actionable technical requirements and test scenarios.

• Experience in creating test cases, test scenarios, test scripts, and ensuring traceability between requirements and testing.

• Proven track record in identifying, documenting, prioritizing, and tracking blockers and defects until resolution.

• Experience supporting program and project management tasks, including risks, issues, dependencies, milestones, status reporting, and stakeholder communications.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively across various teams and workstreams.

• Capability to obtain a Public Trust.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field (preferred).

• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), PMI-PBA, or a similar certification (preferred).

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or an equivalent Agile certification (preferred).

• ISTQB, CSTE, or other software testing certification (preferred).

• Familiarity with Salesforce, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar Agile/ALM tools, Power BI, Tableau (preferred).

• Experience working with APIs, SQL, data validation, or other technical analysis tools (preferred).

• Background in supporting enterprise-scale technology transformation or modernization programs (preferred).

• Experience working with distributed or cross-functional technology teams (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Paid time off.

• Paid parental leave.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Flexible spending accounts.

• Commuter benefits.

• Tuition reimbursement.