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.  Tests new system features and creates test cases.  

• 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/Joint Application Design (JAD) 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.  Creates test cases in Team Foundation Server/Microsoft Test Manager.
• 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.
• 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.

• Ability to mentor junior analysts.

• Experience with testing software applications.

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

• 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..

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