[Remote] Senior Business Analyst (Remote - US) Dept of VA

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Keeper Inc. is currently seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support the Veterans Legacy Memorial contract with the Veterans Affairs Administration. The analyst will serve as a subject matter expert, capturing and defining business requirements, and working closely with stakeholders to improve strategies and recommend process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with Product Owner to determine scope and vision of each release, PI and help in sprint planning
• Ongoing creation of Strategic Objectives, Themes and Initiatives in JIRA with input from Product Owner and OI&T Project Manager
• Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates business requirements with Business owner and other stakeholders
• Work with Product Owners and Scrum Teams in requirements decomposition into epics and stories, backlog refinement, and breakdown of user stories and tasks
• Interaction with stakeholders and SMEs in support of the Product Owner to prioritize requirements in the backlog
• Works directly with OIT team and Product owner and other contractor teams to track customer needs, questions, and related work items
• Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics
• Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards
• Develops and utilizes standard templates to write requirements specifications accurately and concisely, and can modify them to support specific systems objectives
• Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team
• Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to members of the scrum to help guide execution of activities
• Work closely with Design team to determine mockups required for development and business approval
• Participate in application testing alongside SQA team

Skills

• 10+ years of Business analyst experience in capturing requirements for a large IT web application
• 10+ years' experience in documenting workflows, data flows, testing the application, training the end users and implementation
• 10+ years of experience in performing gap analysis, IT risks analysis, operational and regulatory risks analysis
• 5+ years of experience in systems analyst role working with large scale environments
• 5+ years of experience in capturing Application User Interface (UI) requirements
• Strong oral and written communications
• Strong client-relationship building, analytical and team building skills
• Comprehensive interpersonal skills
• Senior-level problem solving skills
• Expert knowledge of and experience working with JIRA
• Experience with Agile and/or Scrum methodologies
• Experience operating in an agile environment like Scrum or Scaled Agile framework environment (SAFe)
• Experience with tools such as Github, Confluence, Service Now, Collaboration tools like Sharepoint Site, Teams channels etc
• Experience supporting public-facing web applications with a large userbase
• Experience with capturing Reporting requirements using tools like Tableau, PowerBI
• Candidates with current or previous Veterans Affairs access (PIV card) will be prioritized
• Experience supporting Veterans Affairs, or any Federal agencies is preferred

Benefits

• Annual Bonus based on performance
• In person team gatherings

Company Overview

• Founded in 2013, Keeper is a social online memorial platform dedicated to memorializing the lives of the departed. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec, CAN, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is http://www.qeepr.com.

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