Senior Agile Business Analyst/Tester

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

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

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

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

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

• Refine and prioritize the product backlog alongside Product Owners and development teams.

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

• Act as a point of contact between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.

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

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

• Assess delivered functionality against business requirements and acceptance criteria.

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

• Utilize JIRA to oversee requirements, stories, acceptance criteria, defects, tasks, sprint activities, and reporting.

• Analyze technical challenges and collaborate with developers and technical leads to determine root causes and solutions.

• Support software development and implementation from the requirements phase through post-production support.

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

• Provide program management support through status reporting, milestone tracking, meeting organization, RAID management, dependency tracking, and management updates.

• Coordinate delivery activities across multiple teams and workstreams.

• Assist in release readiness and address outstanding defects, requirements, and UAT issues.

• Enhance 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 a related role in technology delivery environments.

• Significant experience in Agile/Scrum environments.

• Proficient in gathering, analyzing, and documenting business and technical requirements.

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

• Familiarity with UAT planning, coordination, execution, and defect management.

• Advanced proficiency in JIRA, including user stories, epics, tasks, defects, workflows, dashboards, and reports.

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

• Experience working collaboratively with software development and QA teams.

• Capability to convert business requirements into technical requirements and test scenarios.

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

• Experience in identifying, documenting, prioritizing, and tracking blockers and defects until resolution.

• Background in supporting program and project management activities, including risks, issues, dependencies, milestones, status reporting, and stakeholder communications.

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

• Ability to juggle multiple priorities across various teams and workstreams.

• Capability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

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

• Certifications such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, CSM, PSM, ISTQB, CSTE, or similar (preferred).

• Experience with Salesforce, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Power BI, Tableau, APIs, SQL, data validation, enterprise-scale transformation programs, or distributed 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.