Business Analyst - Washington, United States - Metric5

    Metric5
    Metric5 Washington, United States

    2 weeks ago

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    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 will also manage the sprint backlog, lead sprint demos, and participate in all major program ceremonies.

    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 Responsibilities

    Manage 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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