Business Analyst (GSA)

Horizon Industries Limited is a dynamic IT and Management Consulting firm based in the Washington, DC area. They are seeking a Business Analyst (Appian) who will be responsible for collaborating with Product Owners, documenting user stories, and leading scrum sessions while ensuring effective communication and training on new functionalities.

Responsibilities:

• Review user stories in backlog; gain a solid understanding of the changes needed
• Collaborate with Product Owners to understand user stories and updates needed
• Document acceptance criteria for user stories and bug tickets
• Help Developers understand the user stories and acceptance criteria, and lead discussions of new functionality
• Test user stories and ensure that testing is appropriately documented, with evidence recorded
• Serve as scrum master/ lead daily scrums
• Develop an agenda for backlog grooming session; get concurrence with Product Owners
• Lead backlog grooming sessions with Product Owners
• Lead demo day and introduce stories to the Product Owners
• Train stakeholders on new functionality
• Document business processes and changes
• Update requirements documentation
• Update user manuals

Requirements:

• Provide detailed, comprehensive, testable, and traceable process components in several formats, including but not limited to Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, Data Requirements, System Software Specifications and Use Cases
• Provide business process and system analysis, design, improvement, and implementation support
• Translate business process needs into technical requirements, provide change management and training support
• The ability to communicate organizational and strategic planning for both technical and functional environments
• Five (5) years of current experience (including educational) in business process and system analysis, design, improvement, and implementation efforts, change management, and training support
• Experience in Agile and JIRA is required
• Education: Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as software engineering, information systems, computer science, business, etc
• It is desired that this person has UI/UX experience with software applications
• Scrum master certification is nice to have
• Any testing-related certification is a plus