DELIVERY Business Analyst Reston, VA

TechSur Solutions, LLC; Reston, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

TechSurSolutions seeks a seasoned Business Analyst/PM to elicit client requirements, write user stories, and maintain an Agile backlog. You will work with developers and testers to translate business needs into actionable tasks and prototypes, ensuring alignment with client goals.

You will study current processes, propose solution options, and prepare comprehensive documentation while maintaining clear communication with stakeholders and managing scope.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with an Agile implementation team writing user stories, grooming product backlog, planning releases.
• Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business IT systems and user needs.
• Formulates IT systems to align with overall business strategies.
• Translates high-level requirements into detailed acceptance criteria for epics/user stories.
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle of Agile IT projects.
• Hands-on experience with JIRA and MS Office, especially Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with web-based applications and modern web technologies.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and understand client business needs, write user stories, manage product backlog, and develop prototypes.
• Study existing processes and legacy systems to identify problems and opportunities for improvement.
• Analyze and design proposed solutions and develop multiple options to address business needs.
• Collaborate with developers and testers to ensure requirements are understood.
• Serve as primary point of contact for customer during requirements gathering.
• Facilitate reconciliation of customer needs with the system proposal to prevent scope creep.
• Prepare project documentation like meeting minutes and business process diagrams.
• Perform other duties as needed.
• Provide artifacts from previous projects (user stories, requirements, UAT, etc.).

Skills

Agile methods

User stories

Backlog grooming

Release planning

JIRA

MS Office

Word

Excel

Visio

PowerPoint

Web technologies

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business management, information systems, computer science, or related field

Tools

JIRA

MS Office

Word

Excel

Visio

PowerPoint

Job description

• Active Government Security Clearance: No
• Compensation: USD 115,000 - USD 120,000 - yearly

Company Description

TechSurSolutions is a digital services company whose mission is to enable digital transformation for our customers to improve quality and efficiency.Based in the DC metropolitan area,TechSurspecializes in advanced cloud services, modernization for both ITstructuresand applications, leveraging Agile development, and Data Analytics.Since we were formed inAugust of2016,we have supported multiple impactful and excitinggovernment programs.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• Elicit and understand the client’s business needs and mission, define requirements, write user stories, and manage a product backlog and develop prototypes for the proposed solution
• Study existing business processes, programs, and/or legacy systems in their native environments and perform a comprehensive analysis of existing problems and understand the areas for improvement
• Analyze and design the proposed solutions while facilitating the development of multiple solution options to address business needs
• Collaborate with developers and test engineers to ensure teams understand the customer’s functional and technical requirements
• Identify and understand customer expectations as part of the requirements gathering process and act as the primary point of contact for all communication needs during the requirements gathering phase with the customer
• Facilitate reconciliation of differences voiced by the customer with those in the system proposal, reducing scope creep or impacts to the delivered system’s quality
• Prepare project documentation like meeting minutes, business process documents and other process workflow diagrams as required.
• Other similar professional duties may be assigned as needed.
• All interested applicants will be required to provide artifacts – requirements documentation from previous project(s) that may include user stories, user requirements, business process documents, UAT scenarios, etc.

Qualifications

Requirements/Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience working with an Agile implementation team writing user stories, grooming product backlog, planning out release planning
• Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business IT systems and user needs.
• Formulates IT systems to parallel overall business strategies.
• Capture detailed descriptions of user needs and translate high-level functional, technical, and performance-based requirements into detailed acceptance criteria for epics/user stories.
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle of Agile IT projects
• Hands-on experience with JIRA and MS Office, especially Word, Excel, Visio, and PowerPoint
• Relevant experience working with web-based applications and modern web technologies
• Excellent Communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business management, information systems, computer science, or related field

Additional Information

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