Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Location: Washington, DC; Reston, VA; Silver Spring, MD (Remote Flexibility)

Description:

Metric5 is looking for a motivated Senior Business Analyst with strong Project Management expertise. You will be working in Agile environment on a COTS (PeopleSoft) product.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will be responsible for collaborating with the product owner, SMEs, and stakeholders to analyze tasks and requests to create user stories with acceptance criteria. You will also manage the sprint backlog, lead sprint demos, and participate in all major program ceremonies. You are comfortable working in a customer-facing role in an agile environment, and you are proactive in identifying risks, and developing solutions. The successful candidate will work directly with customers, developers, and other team members throughout all stages of the development lifecycle to implement application enhancements.

Position Responsibilities :

· Manage the product backlog and design artifacts in Jira and Confluence

· Lead requirements elicitation and refinement sessions to uncover business, functional, and technical needs

· Facilitate collection of user feedback and metrics tracking

· Translate customer needs and requirement into epics, features, and user stories

· Maintain requirements traceability and ensure development aligns with business objectives

· Perform gap analysis

· Support business process modeling, and human centered design activities

· Work directly with the development teams to clarify requirements

· Translate user stories into test cases and support QA/testing activities

· Support organizational change strategy and artifacts to support a smooth system roll-out

· Develop executive briefing artifacts and info-graphics/diagrams

· Develop and deliver training material such as user guides, quick reference guides, learning videos, and instructor-led training

· Support daily/weekly/quarterly Agile ceremonies

- Experience working with PeopleSoft

Required Skills:

· 8 or more years of experience in the IT field focused on eliciting requirements and user story writing

· Must have excellent communication skills

· Experience in Agile business analysis, product ownership, or management

· Knowledge and experience in several agile frameworks (e.g., Kanban, Scrum, XP, Lean, DevOps)

· Strong writing and communication skills

· Working knowledge and documented experience using requirements management tools such as JIRA and Confluence

· Experience with functional and end-to-end testing, such as conducting manual test cases and writing BDD test scripts

· Experience providing end user training

Desired Skills and Certifications:

· PeopleSoft Certifications are highly desirable

· Experience working in a SAFe Agile environment

· Technical understanding to connect technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

· Innovative thinking – ability to learn new tools and techniques and apply them to the program

Education: Bachelors degree

Years of Experience: 8+ years of relevant experience

Clearance: Must be a United States Citizen and able to obtain a security clearance for this government position.

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