Business Analyst Junior
United States of America
Full Time
1 day ago
$64,000 - $80,000 USD
No H1B
Key skills
Agile MethodologyBusiness RequirementsUser Story WritingJiraSoftware Development Lifecycle (SDLC)Project Requirements ManagementReport CreationUse Case DocumentationFunctional SpecificationsAcceptance Criteria DefinitionData IntegrityData PrivacyComplianceLow Code Application PlatformsAgileScrumSDLCLeadershipProject ManagementCommunication
About this role
General Dynamics Information Technology is a global technology and professional services company. They are seeking a Junior Business Analyst to assist the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals in managing its appeals workloads and collaborating with various teams to ensure effective communication and documentation.
Responsibilities:
- Support client stakeholders, contract leadership, the product owner, the Lead Business Analyst, and the DevSecOps team to gather and analyze business requirements, write user stories, manage and identify functional requirements, and participate in agile ceremonies
- Understand the current "as-is" platform and its business processes and workflows
- Approach user stories with curiosity, asking questions about how each user story or task fit into the larger picture to identify dependencies, related tasks, and hidden requirements
- Identify potential risks and issues early in the project lifecycle and follow PMO processes to report them
- Support improvements to improve the overall project and our ways of working, tightening up agile processes and improving the quality of client-facing reporting
- Help define the scope of each release and support the creation of documentation to ensure repeatable processes across all areas of DevSecOps
- Provide detailed documentation including user stores, use cases and functional specifications to serve as reference to developers
- Define acceptance criteria and work with QA to verify the product meets the business requirements
- Collaborate with the development and QA teams to continuously improve processes, fill in gaps in development or testing processes, and help support successful releases and patches
- Verify and validate product features and requirements to ensure that they meet acceptance criteria
- Define standards related to user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional requirements alongside the Scrum Master and enforce them
Requirements:
- Agile Methodology
- Business Requirements
- User Story
- 2 + years of related experience
- Experience with Agile methodologies and project management using tools including Jira
- 2+ years' experience in business analysis and systems development
- 1+ years with Agile methodologies and project management using tools including Jira
- Working knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Experience with managing project requirements
- Experience creating reports and supporting presentations to communicate sprint status, sprint planning status, and other development-related reports
- Excellent communication skills to convey complex concepts and workflows to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to pass HHS and company background check to obtain a Public Trust Level 5 clearance
- Understanding of and ability to communicate diagrams and documentation to that represent complex architectural concepts
- Understanding of data integrity, data privacy, and compliance
- Business level understanding of low code application platforms, and best practices