[Remote] Senior Business Analyst (Remote - US) Dept of VA
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Keeper Inc. is currently seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support the Veterans Legacy Memorial contract with the Veterans Affairs Administration. The analyst will serve as a subject matter expert, capturing and defining business requirements, and working closely with stakeholders to improve strategies and recommend process improvements.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with Product Owner to determine scope and vision of each release, PI and help in sprint planning
- Ongoing creation of Strategic Objectives, Themes and Initiatives in JIRA with input from Product Owner and OI&T Project Manager
- Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates business requirements with Business owner and other stakeholders
- Work with Product Owners and Scrum Teams in requirements decomposition into epics and stories, backlog refinement, and breakdown of user stories and tasks
- Interaction with stakeholders and SMEs in support of the Product Owner to prioritize requirements in the backlog
- Works directly with OIT team and Product owner and other contractor teams to track customer needs, questions, and related work items
- Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics
- Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards
- Develops and utilizes standard templates to write requirements specifications accurately and concisely, and can modify them to support specific systems objectives
- Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team
- Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to members of the scrum to help guide execution of activities
- Work closely with Design team to determine mockups required for development and business approval
- Participate in application testing alongside SQA team
Skills
- 10+ years of Business analyst experience in capturing requirements for a large IT web application
- 10+ years' experience in documenting workflows, data flows, testing the application, training the end users and implementation
- 10+ years of experience in performing gap analysis, IT risks analysis, operational and regulatory risks analysis
- 5+ years of experience in systems analyst role working with large scale environments
- 5+ years of experience in capturing Application User Interface (UI) requirements
- Strong oral and written communications
- Strong client-relationship building, analytical and team building skills
- Comprehensive interpersonal skills
- Senior-level problem solving skills
- Expert knowledge of and experience working with JIRA
- Experience with Agile and/or Scrum methodologies
- Experience operating in an agile environment like Scrum or Scaled Agile framework environment (SAFe)
- Experience with tools such as Github, Confluence, Service Now, Collaboration tools like Sharepoint Site, Teams channels etc
- Experience supporting public-facing web applications with a large userbase
- Experience with capturing Reporting requirements using tools like Tableau, PowerBI
- Candidates with current or previous Veterans Affairs access (PIV card) will be prioritized
- Experience supporting Veterans Affairs, or any Federal agencies is preferred
Benefits
- Annual Bonus based on performance
- In person team gatherings
Company Overview
- Founded in 2013, Keeper is a social online memorial platform dedicated to memorializing the lives of the departed. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec, CAN, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is http://www.qeepr.com.
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