Senior Agile Business Analyst, Tester

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🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧐 Business Analyst

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Koniag Government Services

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1975

🏛️ Government

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

Government • Defense • Consulting

Koniag Government Services is an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) that provides technical, professional, and operational expertise to the U. S. public sector. KGS supports Defense & Intelligence, Federal Civilian, and Health customers with enterprise solutions, professional services, and operations management, and emphasizes mission-focused outcomes, contracting speed (ANC direct awards), and strategic/technology partnerships. The company positions itself as a mission partner delivering people, technology, and program management to government customers.

📋 Description

• Partner with business stakeholders, Product Owners, technical teams, and program leadership to understand business objectives, processes, and technology needs • Elicit, analyze, document, and validate functional and technical requirements • Create and maintain epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, business requirements, process flows, and supporting documentation • Write clear, detailed, and testable user stories for development and QA teams • Collaborate with Product Owners and development teams to refine and prioritize the product backlog • Support Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning • Serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams • Develop and execute UAT strategies, test scenarios, test cases, and validation plans • Coordinate UAT activities with business users, QA, development, and product teams • Validate delivered functionality against documented business requirements and acceptance criteria • Identify, document, prioritize, and track blockers and defects through resolution • Use JIRA to manage requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, defects, tasks, sprint activities, and reporting • Analyze technical issues with developers and technical leads to determine root causes and solutions • Support technical delivery involving applications, integrations, APIs, databases, data flows, environments, and system dependencies • Support end-to-end software development and implementation activities from requirements through post-production support • Track risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and action items • Provide program management support including status reporting, milestone tracking, meeting coordination, RAID management, dependency tracking, and management updates • Coordinate activities across multiple teams and workstreams to support delivery schedules and program milestones • Assist with release readiness and address outstanding defects, requirements, and UAT issues • Identify process improvement opportunities in business analysis, testing, Agile delivery, and program processes • Maintain project documentation and communicate requirements, testing status, risks, issues, and delivery progress

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, QA Analyst/Tester, or similar role within technology delivery environments • Substantial experience working in Agile/Scrum environments • Demonstrated experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting business and technical requirements • Extensive experience writing user stories and detailed acceptance criteria • Strong hands-on experience with UAT planning coordination, execution, and defect management • Advanced experience with JIRA, including managing user stories, epics, tasks, defects, workflows, dashboards, and reports • Strong technical understanding of software applications, system integrations, APIs, databases, data flows, and SDLC processes • Experience working directly with software development and QA teams • Strong ability to translate business requirements into clear, actionable technical requirements and test scenarios • Experience creating test cases, test scenarios, test scripts, and traceability between requirements and testing • Experience identifying, documenting, prioritizing, and tracking blockers and defects through resolution • Experience supporting program and project management activities, including risks, issues, dependencies, milestones, status reporting, and stakeholder communications • Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills • Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively across multiple teams and workstreams • Ability to obtain a Public Trust • Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field (preferred) • Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), PMI-PBA, or similar certification (preferred) • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent Agile certification (preferred) • ISTQB, CSTE, or other software testing certification (preferred) • Experience with Salesforce, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or comparable Agile/ALM tools, Power BI, Tableau (preferred) • Experience working with APIs, SQL, data validation, or other technical analysis tools (preferred) • Experience supporting enterprise-scale technology transformation or modernization programs (preferred) • Experience working with distributed or cross-functional technology teams (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) retirement plan • Paid time off • Paid parental leave • Life and disability insurance • Flexible spending accounts • Commuter benefits • Tuition reimbursement