Secret-Cleared Business Analyst for Agile CODIS

ECS; Virginia; On-site; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS in Stafford, VA is seeking a Business Analyst to support the CODIS program. The role involves decomposing requirements into scrum-ready units and collaborating with the CODIS PMO, development, and QA teams to ensure delivered functionality meets acceptance criteria.

You'll facilitate agile ceremonies, maintain the team backlog, and produce documentation to satisfy CDRL requirements. A Secret or Top Secret clearance is required, with strong communication and Jira skills.

Qualifications

• 3+ years analyzing and documenting complex software applications.
• Experience maintaining a team backlog for an Agile/Scrum team.
• Experience collaborating with customer representatives, program management, and quality managers to define and document requirements in small increments.
• Experience decomposing features into user stories.
• Experience writing Acceptance Criteria for user stories to define system functionality.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including ability to translate complex technical concepts into plain English.
• Must have an active Secret or Top Secret clearance.
• Experience with JIRA.

Responsibilities

• Decompose Functional Requirements into appropriate scrum units (e.g., Epics, Features, User Stories)
• Develop acceptance test criteria (ATC) as appropriate to fully validate delivered functionality
• Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies and improve agile practices throughout iterative releases
• Collaborate with other teams to understand how CODIS system changes may affect the development and testing efforts
• Interact with required stakeholders including CODIS PMO, Scrum Development Team, infrastructure managers, and SME Team to understand the needs of end users and document those needs as functional requirements
• Coordinate monthly/sprint reporting and communication
• Develop or modify moderately complex documentation to ensure fulfillment of all CDRL requirements
• Participate in Quality Management activities
• Support software testing, including executing test scripts
• Support continuous innovation by implementing the best practices to improve technology tools and processes to increase team efficiency and technical execution

Skills

Backlog management

Requirements analysis

User stories decomposition

Acceptance criteria

JIRA

Agile/Scrum

Stakeholder communication

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Everforth ECS in Stafford, VA is seeking a Business Analyst to support the CODIS program. The role involves decomposing requirements into scrum-ready units and collaborating with the CODIS PMO, development, and QA teams to ensure delivered functionality meets acceptance criteria.

You'll facilitate agile ceremonies, maintain the team backlog, and produce documentation to satisfy CDRL requirements. A Secret or Top Secret clearance is required, with strong communication and Jira skills.