JOB TITLE: Senior Business Analyst
LOCATION: Washington, DC
DURATION: 3+ MONTHS
JOB ID : TO-297
Work Experience:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst/Scrum Master. The project follows the Agile methodology; therefore, the contractor is expected to:
- Coordinate, facilitate and participate in all agile ceremonies.
- Maintain the project backlog and define all features and user stories/acceptance criteria,
- Analyze, clarify, validate, and document,
- Work with the agile project team to conduct capacity and sprint planning,
- Coordinate and facilitate clients/product owner meetings,
- Facilitate and validated the implementation of all new functionality.
Technical Skills:
Minimum eight years of recent experience in eliciting, analyzing, specifying, and validating the business needs of stakeholders
Conducting interviews to gather customer requirements via meetings, questionnaires, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
Translating and documenting conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements and user stories in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team
Working with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements
Creating process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team
Conducting research on products to meet agreed upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts
Participating in quality assurance and user acceptance testing
Experience working in an Agile environment
Excellent listening, interpersonal, written and communication skills
Excellent analytical, and creative problem-solving skills
Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, planning, monitoring, modeling, verification, and methodology development
Ability to understand and document business and business processes
Highly skilled in solution evaluation
Excellent facilitation and collaboration skills
Analytical thinking and problem solving
Detail-oriented and capable of delivering a high level of accuracy
Understanding of databases and other technology
Strong customer service orientation
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is preferred
Minimum of eight years related work experience