Job Description
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Keeper Inc. is currently seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support the Veterans Legacy Memorial contract with the Veterans Affairs Administration. The analyst will serve as a subject matter expert, capturing and defining business requirements, and working closely with stakeholders to improve strategies and recommend process improvements. Responsibilities • Collaborates with Product Owner to determine scope and vision of each release, PI and help in sprint planning • Ongoing creation of Strategic Objectives, Themes and Initiatives in JIRA with input from Product Owner and OI&T Project Manager • Elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates business requirements with Business owner and other stakeholders • Work with Product Owners and Scrum Teams in requirements decomposition into epics and stories, backlog refinement, and breakdown of user stories and tasks • Interaction with stakeholders and SMEs in support of the Product Owner to prioritize requirements in the backlog • Works directly with OIT team and Product owner and other contractor teams to track customer needs, questions, and related work items • Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics • Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards • Develops and utilizes standard templates to write requirements specifications accurately and concisely, and can modify them to support specific systems objectives • Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team • Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to members of the scrum to help guide execution of activities • Work closely with Design team to determine mockups required for development and business approval • Participate in application testing alongside SQA team Skills • 10+ years of Business analyst experience in capturing requirements for a large IT web application • 10+ years' experience in documenting workflows, data flows, testing the application, training the end users and implementation • 10+ years of experience in performing gap analysis, IT risks analysis, operational and regulatory risks analysis • 5+ years of experience in systems analyst role working with large scale environments • 5+ years of experience in capturing Application User Interface (UI) requirements • Strong oral and written communications • Strong client-relationship building, analytical and team building skills • Comprehensive interpersonal skills • Senior-level problem solving skills • Expert knowledge of and experience working with JIRA • Experience with Agile and/or Scrum methodologies • Experience operating in an agile environment like Scrum or Scaled Agile framework environment (SAFe) • Experience with tools such as Github, Confluence, Service Now, Collaboration tools like Sharepoint Site, Teams channels etc • Experience supporting public-facing web applications with a large userbase • Experience with capturing Reporting requirements using tools like Tableau, PowerBI • Candidates with current or previous Veterans Affairs access (PIV card) will be prioritized • Experience supporting Veterans Affairs, or any Federal agencies is preferred Benefits • Annual Bonus based on performance • In person team gatherings Company Overview • Founded in 2013, Keeper is a social online memorial platform dedicated to memorializing the lives of the departed. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in Montréal, Quebec, CAN, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is Apply tot his job