Business Analyst

Chenega Services & Federal Solutions, LLC, a Chenega Professional Services company, supports government clients including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Business Analyst will support public health analytic initiatives, bridge business stakeholders and technical teams, translate needs into testable requirements, manage Agile backlogs, analyze processes, and support User Acceptance Testing.

Responsibilities:

• Translate business needs into clear testable technical requirements
• Lead Agile-based requirements and backlog management activities
• Analyze business processes and identify improvement opportunities
• Support User Acceptance Testing and cross-team alignment

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience working directly with business system users to elicit and document complete, accurate, and testable requirements, including capturing solid acceptance criteria from the Product Owner (PO)
• Experience working within an Agile delivery framework, with a strong understanding of Agile principles, ceremonies, and artifacts
• Experience using Jira for requirements documentation, backlog management, and logging defects, including creating, deleting, and updating stories following PO approval
• Ability to conduct requirements gathering sessions with client stakeholders using interviews, document analysis, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, and workflow analysis, and to actively listen to stakeholder needs and document all requests
• Ability to document business, functional, and non-functional requirements and system touchpoints, including reporting, dashboard, and workflow requirements, and to translate requirements into technical specifications
• Ability to help the business break requirements down into small, valuable stories with clear user acceptance criteria and business rules, and to ensure stories, test cases, and business rules are clear and understood by developers during the iteration
• Ability to understand and document business processes and develop as-is and to-be process flow diagrams, and to organize requirement artifacts into an accessible centralized repository
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience writing user stories for health data and analytic systems
• Experience serving as Scrum Master
• Knowledge of data structures, relational databases, data lineage, and data governance principles
• Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by providing the UAT plan and scripts, facilitating UAT sessions, providing results, obtaining Product Owner signatures, and validating solutions during production deployment
• Professional certification such as Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), PMI-PBA, or a recognized Agile certification