Business Analyst

Precise has an opportunity for a Agile Business Analyst to join a project that plays a role in facilitating public and governmental visibility into monitoring of aspects of the Endangered Species Act. 

The Business Analyst is responsible for gathering and documenting system/business requirements, performing requirement analysis and systems analysis, liaising between stakeholders and development team, facilitating design and of software solutions, assisting with the testing process, and helping quality assurance process.

U.S. Citizenship is required.

While this position is remote, the successful candidate will reside within the D.C./Maryland/Northern Virginia metropolitan area.

Successful candidates must be able to complete a Public Trust background check, requiring U.S. residency for 3 of the past 5 years.

Responsibilities

Responsible for stakeholder management, requirement elicitation, preparing estimations for business analysis tasks and deliverables, systems analysis, preparing functional specifications using user stories, acceptance criteria and use case narration. Responsible for ensuring unique business needs are properly translated to functional specifications and provide a system solution, assessing options for process improvement, participating in cross functional team collaborations, assisting with the maintenance of project schedules and developing various status reports.

Job Requirements

• Plans business analysis efforts, including stakeholder analysis, communication planning, and elicitation techniques.
• Facilitates requirements meetings, interview sessions, brainstorming, documentation analysis, and other techniques as necessary.
• Supports customer meetings to understand current client business practices and business needs supporting requirements analysis.
• Ensures that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.
• Validates requirements with business stakeholders and team members.
• Collaborates with stakeholders and team members regarding requirements development and translation into software specifications.
• Supports traceability efforts from high-level business needs through functional validation
• Participates in requirements prioritization and backlog grooming sessions. 
• Partners with project leads to adjust schedules when necessary and to ensure efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones; follows proper escalation paths; and manages customer and supplier relationships.
• Writes detailed descriptions of user needs, program functions and dependencies required to develop or modify applications.
• Manages changes to baseline requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools.
• Works closely with developers and testers to ensure all requirements are understood and have corresponding test scripts.
• Manages the documentation for multiple applications and releases across more than one development team while meeting deadlines.

Required Skills

• Seven (7) plus years of work experience in Information Technology as a Business Analyst in an Agile environment.
• Seven (7) plus years of work experience facilitating development of technical requirements, user stories, and mockups to address business needs and work with developers and testers to ensure solutions meet expectations.
• Able to facilitate meetings with business owners, technical leads, and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience capturing business needs and developingcorresponding functional solutions.
• Demonstrated experience supporting UAT efforts in conjunction with business owners/ users.
• Agile development practices
• Able to support Scrum Master activities for technical team coordination.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office tools
• Proficient in formal software development life cycle processes
• Proficient with Microsoft DevOps
• Demonstrated abilities as a driven, self-starter and quick study.
• Report Generation

Desired Skills

• Experience in a government or government contracting environment

ABOUT US

Precise Software Solutions, Inc., an SBA 8(a) program participant, is an innovative small business with a proven record of success delivering quality services and solutions to government organizations. A CMMI Level 3 company, Precise serves as a trusted advisor to senior technology executives and helps government agencies enhance and expand their information technology capabilities. Precise helps their customers capitalize on the efficiencies offered by technological advancements and ensures the integrity of their IT systems and programs so they can perform their public mission more effectively. The company is known for delivering agile and innovative solutions and specializes in strategic consulting, system modernization and integration, digital transformation and experience, infrastructure and cloud implementation, and data management and analytics.

BENEFITS AND PERKS: 

• Comprehensive Health Benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision) including High Deductible Health plan where company pays 100% of the deductible for your family.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA) 
• Retirement Plan with 4% match and discretionary match at year end
• Paid Time Off (PTO): 15 days of PTO accrued per year; 7 holidays+ 3 Floating holidays; 2 Innovation days (paid training days)
• Short Term and Long-Term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Jury Duty leave 
• Life and AD&D Insurance 
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Training and Development 
• Wellness Incentives & Discount programs
• Employee Referral Program 
• Annual Charity Donation Match 
• Awards and Recognition

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Precise is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification), national origin, age, disability, military/veteran status, marital status, genetic information or any other factor protected by law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment, promotion, wages, benefits and all other privileges, terms and conditions of employment. The company is dedicated to seeking all qualified applicants.