Senior Agile Business Analyst/Tester
Posted 2hrs ago
Employment Information
Report this job
Job expired or something wrong with this job?
Job Description
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

















