IT Business Analyst - Agile, Backlog & UAT Champion

Vamonos IT; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Growth opportunities

Collaborative environment

Microsoft technologies exposure

Job summary

Vamonos IT is seeking an IT Business Analyst to support requirements gathering, backlog management, Agile sprint execution, and application testing within an enterprise IT environment.

The role emphasizes translating business needs into clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, collaborating with customers, product owners, developers, and QA to ensure solutions meet business objectives.

Qualifications

• Gathers, analyzes, documents, and validates business requirements.
• Develops BRDs, functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Proficient with Agile methodologies and Scrum practices.
• Manages product backlogs and sprint artifacts using JIRA.
• Collaborates with customers, product owners, developers, and QA teams.
• Maintains traceability across requirements, development, and testing.
• Supports UAT including test planning and execution.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize and manage competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers, stakeholders, and technical teams to gather, analyze, document, and validate business and functional requirements.
• Facilitate requirements gathering sessions, stakeholder discussions, and technical coordination meetings.
• Develop and maintain BRDs, functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Translate business requirements into actionable user stories and development tasks for Agile delivery.
• Create, organize, prioritize, and maintain product backlog items using JIRA.
• Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to support backlog refinement and sprint planning.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies: sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog grooming, reviews, retrospectives.
• Work with developers, QA, and technical teams to clarify requirements and resolve questions.
• Define and document acceptance criteria to ensure software aligns with requirements.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) including test planning and execution.
• Identify, document, track, and coordinate resolution of defects and issues.
• Collaborate with QA to validate functionality and testing coverage.
• Monitor sprint progress and communicate requirements-related issues to stakeholders.
• Maintain project documentation using Atlassian Confluence.
• Analyze existing processes to identify improvement opportunities.
• Support data analysis and process modeling to evaluate requirements.
• Facilitate communication to ensure shared understanding of priorities and outcomes.
• Maintain requirements traceability throughout SDLC for testing and delivery.
• Recommend improvements to requirements management and Agile practices.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Agile methodologies

User stories

Acceptance criteria

JIRA

Confluence

Requirements management

UAT support

Communication skills

SDLC knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Vamonos IT is seeking an IT Business Analyst to support requirements gathering, backlog management, Agile sprint execution, and application testing within an enterprise IT environment.

The role emphasizes translating business needs into clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, collaborating with customers, product owners, developers, and QA to ensure solutions meet business objectives.