Senior Business Analyst W SW Test experience - REMOTE - PUBLIC TRUST

As a Senior Business Analyst you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Senior Business Analyst joining our team to support development of new MSPP applications, as well as modernizing existing applications for our customers, which will support their administrative and research activities including those related to planning, funding, and conducting research that promotes the prevention and treatment of heart, lung, and blood diseases.

How a Senior Business Analyst will Make an Impact:

• Collaborates and engages with business experts to gain full understanding of business needs and requirements
• Work with developers to ensure that the requirements are implemented and tested, using Agile practices; collaborates with the team on agile activities, including estimation, iterative planning and retrospectives
• Coordinates with enterprise architecture, infrastructure, configuration management, security, and other technical groups to ensure all needs are met and fully implemented
• Responsibilities include:
• Provide requirements analysis and related support of new systems and processes being developed in Microsoft Power Platform and other technologies
• Capture and define requirement with a variety of techniques, including BDD-style specifications, API specifications, user stories, use cases, and mockups
• Analyze existing systems interfaces and documents
• Conduct interviews with product owners, users, and other stakeholders to identify candidate requirements
• Describe and execute test cases
• Manage requirements in Jira using a backlog, and collaborates with product owners to prioritize the backlog
• Manage the flow of development from idea to release
• Troubleshoot and investigate issues reported by business users and provides ongoing communication about status
• Create end user documentation including user and quick reference guides
• Skills will be used to provide requirements analysis and shepherd the MSPP product from conception to implementation.

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree

Required Experience:

• Five years of experience as business analyst or related IT experience 

Required Technical Skills:

• Experience using Jira (or similar tool) to manage requirements
• Business Requirements Analysis, Client Communication, JIRA Tool, Software Testing
• Experience developing wireframes and mockups

Security Clearance Level:

• Must be able to obtain a level 5 Public Trust, which requires residency in the U.S. for 3 of the last 5 years.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to effectively communicate and the ability to convey complex concepts, including but not limited to: requirement gathering, requirement and process documentation, meeting minutes, user guides and customer demos

Excellent problem-solving skills