Gathers, reviews, analyzes, evaluates, and translates business requirements and functions to well-organized specifications.  Responsible for all aspects of requirements management in an Agile project, including working with the Product Owner and other stakeholders to create and groom the Product Backlog for a new system.  Assists with testing new system features.  

• Understand the project needs and tailor requirements to fit the goals of the project
• Facilitate review of requirements and negotiate specific scope items to ensure delivery meets the needs of all stakeholders
• Work with project stakeholders and Product Owners to create and maintain the Product Backlog
• Lead backlog grooming sessions with technical and business stakeholders
• Conduct and/or assist with daily stand-up meetings
• Understand and apply Agile development methodology as it applies to requirements management
• Understand the context of the user’s processes and specific user problems or needs
• Perform analysis of the user process, problems, and needs
• Based on the analysis, document as-is business processes,  identify gaps, and develop to-be business processes
• Based on the analysis, identify and document business requirements and Product Backlog Items (PBIs)
• Work with the technical team to develop technical solutions for the identified business requirements
• Evaluate legacy and competing solutions to identify gaps and areas for improvement
• Document system requirements based on the identified technical solution
• Facilitate reviews of requirements to get approval on the documented requirements
• Prepare instruction and process manuals
• Support engineering team to effectively test software applications
• Evaluate procedures on an ongoing basis to ensure they are up to date and reflect newly adapted practices.
• Participate in usability studies to understand current user experience and identify problems
• Conduct research and analysis to understand cause, effects, and impact of system problems
• Interview users and perform research to gather user needs, problems, and requirements to understand goals
• Participate in Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions with business stakeholders
• Create mock-ups and prototypes for proposed solution

• U.S. Citizenship Required

• Ability to communicate well within cross-functional teams and to be the bridge between technical teams and business stakeholders

• Ability to lead meetings independently

• Strong collaborator able to contribute to a variety of tasks

• Strong focus on delivering quality work and close attention to detail

• Ability to mentor junior analysts

• Knowledge of Agile software development methodology

• Experience with testing software applications

• Good written and verbal interpersonal skills to build relationships with users, customers, and intersecting organizations

• Good analytical skills

• Experience with Team Foundation Server (TFS) is a plus

• Experience with Selenium, or other automated testing tools, is a plus

• Experience with Cloud.gov or other Cloud platform is a plus

• Master MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Visio and other office tools.