Sr. Business Analyst

Surge IT; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Surge IT in Alexandria, VA is seeking an experienced Business Analyst with 7–10 years of experience to work with project teams and clients on functional and technical requirements analysis, documentation, and validation for software development. You will create/update user stories, acceptance criteria, gather meeting notes, and prepare weekly status reports.

The role requires strong communication, collaboration across Scrum teams, and the ability to guide stakeholders toward high-quality product

Qualifications

• Experience creating user stories, system requirements, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to analyze user requirements and improve systems.
• Knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban).
• Ability to research and resolve production issues.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and communicate solutions.
• Act as liaison between project manager, development team, and client.
• Understand UI designs, wireframes, release notes, end-user documentation.
• Experience using AI-assisted tools in BA activities.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint).

Responsibilities

• Perform functional and technical requirements analysis, documentation, and validation for software development.
• Create or update user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Assist in gathering meeting notes and preparing weekly status reports.
• Present status updates to the team and client.
• Facilitate team and stakeholder discussions and remove impediments.
• Coordinate with other scrum teams to deliver high-quality products.

Skills

Requirements docs

Requirements analysis

Agile frameworks

Research & analysis

Prioritization

PM/Dev liaison

UI/UX basics

AI tools

MS Office

Tools

Jira

Confluence

SQL

Job description

Experience Requirement: Minimum of 7 -10 years in Business Analyst role.

This individual will be responsible for interacting with the project team, multiple other project teams, and with clients to perform functional & technical requirements analysis, documentation, and validation for new and existing software development. This individual will create new or update existing user stories, acceptance criteria, assist in the gathering meeting notes, preparation of weekly status reports and presenting status updates to the team and client. As needed, the analyst will help facilitate team and stakeholder discussions, remove team impediments, and coordinate with other scrum teams to deliver high quality products.

Required Skills

• Experience/understanding for developing requirements documentation such as: User Stories, System Requirements, Use Cases and Acceptance Criteria
• Ability to analyze user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
• Knowledge of Software Development Agile Frameworks, including Scaled Agile, Scrum and Kanban
• Ability to conduct necessary research and provide indepth analysis to resolve production issues
• Ability to maintain ownership of tasks until resolution, manage competing priorities, and provide timely solutions to the team, while remaining flexible with continually changing priorities
• Ability to serve as the liaison between the project manager, development team, and client to clarify requirements, confirm system behavior, delegate issues & support request assignments and upscale issues to the Project Manager/Scrum Lead
• Understanding of Screen and User Interface designs (wireframes), Front End Test Documentation (Sprint Review), User Guides/Online Help documentation, Release Notes, End User Communication and Training materials
• Ability to leverage AIassisted tools across business analysis activities; drives adoption where they improve outcomes, supports others in their effective use, and stays current on emerging AI technologies and their application to business processes.
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite: Word, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint

Preferred Skills

• Ability to learn quickly, selfstarter and detail oriented
• Ability to analyze disparate systems to identify gaps and potential impacts
• Ability to develop business workflows
• Experience using Jira and Confluence for requirements documentation
• Experience working with stakeholders and product owner to define the target state of a system and identify/document gap for software applications
• Prior experience on a successful scrum team, including experience with sprint ceremonies such as sprint, planning, backlog refinement, demos, and retrospectives
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) with a demonstrated ability to develop presentation materials, lead and facilitate team meetings sessions
• Experience/understanding of SQL and completing database queries to support analysis
• Experience using Atlassian tools (JIRA + Confluence) or similar products