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Business Analyst - Washington, United States - Metric5
Description
Location:
Washington, DC / Remote Flexibility
Description
Metric5 is looking for a motivated Business Analyst with strong Project Management skills to join an agile program supporting our US Treasury client.
As a Business Analyst, you will be responsible for collaborating with the product owner, SMEs, and stakeholders to analyze tasks and requests to create user stories with acceptance criteria.
You are comfortable working in a customer-facing role in an agile environment, and you are proactive in identifying risks, and developing solutions.
The successful candidate will work directly with customers, developers, and other team members throughout all stages of the development lifecycle to implement application enhancements.
Position ResponsibilitiesManage the product backlog and design artifacts in Azure Boards and Kanban list
Lead requirements elicitation and refinement sessions to uncover business, functional, and technical needs
Facilitate collection of user feedback and metrics tracking
Translate customer needs and requirement into epics, features, and user stories
Maintain requirements traceability and ensure development aligns with business objectives
Perform gap analysis
Support business process modeling, and human centered design activities
Work directly with the development teams to clarify requirements
Translate user stories into test cases and support QA/testing activities
Support organizational change strategy and artifacts to support a smooth system roll-out
Respond to customer requests with timeliness and meet with customer for preliminary troubleshooting
Develop executive briefing artifacts and info-graphics/diagrams
Develop and deliver training material such as user guides, quick reference guides, learning videos, and instructor-led training
Support daily/weekly/quarterly Agile ceremonies
Required Skills
Minimum of 4 years of experience in the IT field focused on eliciting requirements and user story writing
Must have excellent communication skills
Experience writing acceptance criteria
Experience in Agile business analysis, product ownership, or management
Knowledge and experience in several agile frameworks (e.g., Kanban, Scrum, XP, Lean, DevOps)
Strong writing and communication skills
Working knowledge and documented experience using requirements management tools such as Azure Boards and Kanban
Experience with functional and end-to-end testing, such as conducting manual test cases and writing BDD test scripts
Experience providing end user training
Desired Skills And Certifications
Experience working in a SAFe Agile environment
PMP Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Technical understanding to connect technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
Innovative thinking – ability to learn new tools and techniques and apply them to the program
Education:
Bachelors degree
Years of Experience: 4+ years of relevant experience
Clearance:
A ble to obtain a government agency Public Trust
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