Sr. Agile Business Analyst at GDIT Falls Church, VA

Sr. Agile Business Analyst

Falls Church, VA.

• Elicit and capture business requirements in an Agile software development environment (including but not limited to consulting with product owners, customers, key stakeholders, or end users).
• Document and manage acceptance criteria, business rules, requirement documents, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Work closely with Product Owners to prioritize user stories, perform user research, user centered design and usability testing throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Utilize UI/UX and Human Centered Design (HCD) concepts to design and implement technical solutions that meets business needs.
• Decompose Epics into detailed functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Participate in the development, testing and refinement of Project Backlog Stories (Requirements) with business and technology partners.
• Facilitating the team in developing acceptance criteria for user stories and demonstrate product demos to the client.
• Document standard operating procedures (SOP) and maintaining the release information radiator for the team.
• Develop process flow, wireframes, high and low fidelity mockups, and dependency diagrams to show dependencies between user stories, visualize the flow of work, and identify bottlenecks and critical paths.
• Support the testing team to ensure the system is aligned with the vision of the business teams.
• Review and maintain documentation for distribution, including project and process documentation, instructional materials, user guides, training manuals, and online content in content authoring tools (i.e., Robo Help).
• Support and conduct user interviews, group workshops, and surveys as required to develop detailed functional and technical requirements.
• Conduct business process analysis, workflow analysis, and business process re-engineering.
• Provide technical assistance and guidance through performing gap analyses, workflow analysis, Analysis of Alternative (AoA) studies, business process modeling, wireframes, and storyboards.
• Deliver technical briefings and hosting meetings to diverse audiences.

• Bachelor's Degree plus 5+ years of experience (or master's degree plus 4+ years) in supporting the product owner and agile team, eliciting business needs, maintaining user stories in the backlog, writing, and maintaining technical documentation, modeling business processes and system requirements, architecture, and data.
• Experience with at least one enterprise software development project within the past three years.
• Experience working in Agile software development environments, processes, and practices.
• Experience assisting with testing, by writing acceptance criteria and confirming test cases result.
• Experience with producing relevant and current requirements, sizing user stories correctly, and removing roadblocks prior to sprints starts.
• Ability to handle a fast-paced Agile software development environment.
• Experience using Agile tools such as JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Ability to develop & decompose Epics, Features, and User Stories.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and be effective at communicating with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong problem-solving capacity in a highly visible and mission critical environment.
• Strong articulation, listening, and communication skills required for interaction with diverse audiences and self-forming teams.
• Adaptable ability to perform independently and within a team.
• Energetic, goal oriented, detailed oriented, proactive, innovative, hardworking, and patient.

• Understanding of database design, SQL Techniques, and perform database queries.
• Experience in Adobe XD, Visio, Figma and usability testing tools.
• Knowledge of user experience (UX) and Human centered design (HCD) processes and methodology.
• Experience with Interaction Design, interaction modeling, and mental modeling.
• Creating user scenarios, user flow, low fidelity, and high-fidelity wireframes.
• Skills in wire framing and/or prototyping tools and methodologies.
• Experience on UX strategy, user researcher, user interviews, surveys, and usability study. Builds personas, user journey map, empathy maps.
• Experience on UX analysis to conduct competitive analysis, market assessments and heuristic evaluations.

Salary Range: $82,283 - $111,323.

Scheduled Weekly

Hours:

40.

Travel Required:

None.

Telecommuting Options:
Remote.

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote.

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.

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