Agile Business Analyst — Government Tech & Transformation

Groundswell

Washington (District of Columbia)

On-site

USD 74,000 - 142,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

401K match

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible schedule

On-site gym

Childcare option

Job summary

Groundswell, a premier technology integrator serving federal agencies, seeks a Business Analyst in Washington, DC to support an Agile software team for the Department of Transportation. You will gather, analyze, document, and validate requirements, translate business needs into user stories, and assist with testing and change management throughout the software lifecycle.

You will collaborate with product owners, developers, testers and stakeholders, track work in Jira, support Microsoft 365 to

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, or a related field.
Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience supporting software development, application systems, or technology transition projects.
Experience working in an Agile software development environment.
Experience eliciting, gathering, analyzing, documenting, and validating business and technical requirements.
Experience developing and managing user stories, acceptance criteria, process documentation, and related requirements artifacts.
Experience coordinating requirements reviews and obtaining stakeholder agreement or sign-off.
Experience analyzing change requests and assessing impacts to scope, schedule, requirements, and deliverables.
Experience maintaining requirements traceability throughout implementation.
Experience supporting application testing, implementation, troubleshooting, helpdesk support, or user acceptance testing.
Experience using Jira and other Atlassian tools to manage requirements, user stories, tasks, defects, or project information.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance in accordance with contract requirements.
Willingness and ability to work Eastern Time Zone hours.

Responsibilities

Elicit, gather, analyze, and document customer requirements and user stories.
Produce high-quality, detailed, comprehensive, testable, and traceable requirements documentation, including process flows, use cases, acceptance criteria, and related analysis artifacts.
Coordinate peer reviews of customer requirements and user stories.
Validate requirements and user stories with customers and other appropriate stakeholders.
Obtain customer sign-off or documented agreement on requirements and user stories.
Analyze and process change requests, including evaluating impacts to requirements, scope, schedule, and deliverables.
Maintain requirements traceability throughout implementation using a requirements traceability matrix or similar tool.
Monitor and help manage project scope by identifying potential scope changes, gaps, and risks.
Provide guidance to stakeholders on effective and efficient approaches for achieving project objectives.
Collaborate with product owners, developers, technical teams, support teams, and subject matter experts to refine requirements and resolve questions or conflicts.
Support quality assurance and user acceptance testing by developing test scenarios, reviewing results, and tracking defects and issues.
Support the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and rollout of application and process changes.
Provide helpdesk support to users by analyzing, troubleshooting, documenting, and coordinating the resolution of application or process-related issues.
Use Atlassian tools, including Jira, to manage requirements, user stories, tasks, defects, change requests, and project information.
Support the Microsoft 365-to-Google Workspace transition and other technology modernization efforts as assigned.
Produce project documentation, status updates, and other deliverables that meet quality and customer expectations.
Report project status, risks, issues, dependencies, and potential impacts to the Project Manager.
Help the team improve efficiency, quality, collaboration, and delivery execution.