Senior Agile Business Analyst/Tester

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Senior Agile Business Analyst/Tester supporting Koniag’s federal government technology programs. Translating requirements into user stories, coordinating UAT, managing defects, and supporting Agile delivery.

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with business stakeholders, Product Owners, technical teams, and program leadership to understand objectives, processes, and technology needs
  • Elicit, analyze, document, and validate functional and technical requirements
  • Create and maintain epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, business requirements, process flows, and supporting documentation
  • Write clear, detailed, and testable user stories for development and QA teams
  • Refine and prioritize the product backlog with Product Owners and development teams
  • Support Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning
  • Serve as liaison between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams
  • Develop and execute UAT strategies, test scenarios, test cases, and validation plans
  • Coordinate UAT with business users, QA, development, and product teams
  • Validate delivered functionality against business requirements and acceptance criteria
  • Identify, document, prioritize, and track blockers and defects through resolution
  • Use JIRA to manage requirements, stories, acceptance criteria, defects, tasks, sprint activities, and reporting
  • Analyze technical issues and collaborate with developers and technical leads on root causes and solutions
  • Support software development and implementation from requirements through post-production support
  • Track risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and action items
  • Provide program management support through status reporting, milestone tracking, meeting coordination, RAID management, dependency tracking, and management updates
  • Coordinate delivery activities across multiple teams and workstreams
  • Support release readiness and resolution of outstanding defects, requirements, and UAT issues
  • Improve business analysis, testing, Agile delivery, and program processes
  • Maintain project documentation and communicate requirements, testing status, risks, issues, and delivery progress

Requirements:

  • 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, QA Analyst/Tester, or similar role within technology delivery environments
  • Substantial experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
  • Experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting business and technical requirements
  • Extensive experience writing user stories and detailed acceptance criteria
  • Experience with UAT planning, coordination, execution, and defect management
  • Advanced experience with JIRA, including user stories, epics, tasks, defects, workflows, dashboards, and reports
  • Strong technical understanding of software applications, system integrations, APIs, databases, data flows, and SDLC processes
  • Experience working directly with software development and QA teams
  • Ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements and test scenarios
  • Experience creating test cases, test scenarios, test scripts, and requirements-to-testing traceability
  • Experience identifying, documenting, prioritizing, and tracking blockers and defects through resolution
  • Experience 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 manage multiple priorities across multiple teams and workstreams
  • Ability to obtain a Public Trust
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (preferred)
  • CBAP, PMI-PBA, CSM, PSM, ISTQB, CSTE, or similar certifications (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