General Experience:

As a business analyst at IOP, you will be supporting a cross-functional agile development team in a fast-paced environment. For this role, experience with generating and managing user stories and sprints is required.

Major Duties:

• Work as a liaison with the product owner, development team, and various business units in order to exceed client expectations.
• Gather and elicit both technical and non-technical requirements by developing user stories via JIRA .
• Lead requirements gathering sessions and decompose epics and features into user stories.
• Assume responsibility for the overall application development lifecycle, including ensuring that project deliverables meet or exceed policies, procedures, and standards.
• Assist the Project Manager in developing the project schedule to organize the total work scope of the project.
• Present functional specifications to stakeholders for review/acceptance and compliance with requirements.
• Work closely with developers and testers to ensure requirements and functional designs are translated accurately into working technical designs.
• Develop test plans and scripts to serve customer needs and business scenarios.
• Suggest improvements or enhancements to processes and systems to increase customer satisfaction or improve productivity.
• Supervise and advise the scrum team to achieve sprint goals.
• Lead backlog refinement and organize meeting by defining, grooming, and prioritizing user stories.
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders at varied levels such as backlog grooming in order to achieve cohesive sprint goals.
• Facilitate and lead meetings with various internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead the testing of user stories to help the team meet the definition of done criteria.
• Work closely with the scrum team throughout the development process.
• Coach various development teams to improve and mature their agile processes.

Required:

• Strong experience with Agile methodologies is required, including the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• SAFe Scrum Master or SAFe Product Owner certification.
• Knowledge of various business analysis techniques including interviewing, brainstorming, and modeling.
• Experienced in supporting business and project teams in translating complex business needs into user stories.
• Experience in backlog grooming and user stories decomposition.
• Ability to test user stories against acceptance criteria.
• Strong knowledge of business process analysis and requirements analysis.
• Proved multi-tasking ability and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Proven ability to ask probing questions to business team members.
• Ability to work independently and manage various priorities effectively.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience using JIRA, queries, story mapping, bulk updates.
• Must be able to obtain Public Trust.
• Bachelor’s Degree with 7 years of professional work experience.
• Proven ability to use all Microsoft Office tools.
• Excellent client presentation.
• Must be able to work in a team environment.
• Ability to work on client site (Crystal City)

Desired:

• Certified Scrum Master/ SAFe Scrum Master Certification
• SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager Certification
• Active DHS Public Trust Clearance
• PMP certified
• Experience in DevSecOps environment
• Experience in writing acceptance criteria using Gherkin syntax
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Familiarity with Cloud environments

At INTEGRITYOne Partners, we have high standards for the members of our team ---- and when our people meet these standards, the personal and professional rewards are plentiful. We help INTEGRITYOne Partners’ employees grow in their careers by gaining enhanced Federal knowledge and experience, sought-after skills, greater discipline and drive, and targeted education and training

INTEGRITYOne Partners is an equal opportunity employer Minorities / Females / Veterans / Disabilities. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or status as a qualified individual with a disability or any other personal characteristic protected by law.