DAn Solutions, Inc: Business Analyst

Company: DAn Solutions, Inc
Location: Reston
Posted on: October 14, 2020

Job Description:

Requires an active TS/SCIThe Business Analyst (BA) serves as proxy for the product owner on a SAFe Agile team, ensuring the customer’s requirements are captured through a variety of methods such as interview/observation, document examination, Database Design Description (DBDD) and Interface Design Description (IDD). These requirements are captured with comprehensive, accurate user stories and acceptance criteria that are managed by the BA in Confluence/JIRA with a properly prioritized product backlog. The BA will interface daily with the scrum team and scrum master to help set the direction of the software development team through a variety of managerial and technical means, ensuring project velocity and quality of deliverables.Responsibilities & Duties: Serve as the customer proxy and interface with government, internal, and other contractual staff, ensuring successful delivery of units of work Analyze broadly-defined requirements and use functional decomposition to define high-level epics/features and stories to create a well-organized, value-driven framework that provides the required business value in a prioritized product backlog Write individual user stories and acceptance criteria in a very clear and concise manner so they are easy to understand and easily implemented by the development team Identify related user stories and epics/features, group them into themes as necessary and document the interrelationship and associated business process flows as necessary Recognize when to integrate the needs of related projects as well as the needs of multiple stakeholders to produce an overall solution Plan and perform analytical and engineering research, design development as well as other assignments in conformance with design, engineering and customer specifications Interface daily with the scrum master to help set the direction of the software development team Coordinate the activities of technicians assigned to specific analytical projects Help with iteration/sprint planning, test acceptance, prototyping and team demos as well as retrospectives Help facilitate the following meeting types: Joint Application Development (JAD), Joint Application Requirements (JAR), Technical Exchange Meetings (TEM) and Product Backlog Refinement/Grooming Contribute to vision and product backlog Establish story acceptance and accept stories into the baseline.Qualifications & Skills: Experience as a business/technical analyst or product owner on SAFe Agile software development projects JIRA or comparable SCRUM/SDLC management software Confluence or comparable wiki/collaboration tools MS Project and other management & reporting tools such asVISIO SAFe certifications a plus

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