Jr. Functional Analyst (telework)

Location: Telework; must report to Crystal City, VA office once per month

Overview:

IntelliBridge is an award-winning national security company looking for a Junior Functional Analyst to support a federallaw enforcement agency customer. As part of an agile application development team, the Junior Functional Analyst works as a functional analyst in the development and continuous upgrades of a high-visibility, mission-critical application.

The Junior Functional Analyst shall be responsible for participating and assisting with all phases of the development lifecycle, including project planning, application design, requirements gathering & documentation, quality assurance testing, pre-implementation activities, and post-implementation support. The optimal candidate has experience in agile development, web application design, and experience using Atlassian Jira.

As a direct employee of IntelliBridge, you would receive a benefit package that includes health/dental/vision insurance coverage, 401K with company match, PTO & paid holidays, and annual tuition/training assistance. For more information, please visit our website.

Clearance:

• Ability to obtain a moderate risk background investigation (MBI)

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Maintains positive and productive working relationships with the government client at all levels, from end users to the program executive.
• Working with the government client, develops Feature Dictionaries to define the high-level scope and "success criteria" for each system feature slated for development.
• Decomposes high-level system features ("epics") into discrete user stories, ready for development; works with software developers to assign story points that reflect development level-of-effort for each story.
• Conducts Product Backlog Refinements (PBRs) with government Product Owners, Product Managers, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and end-users to gather and refine user requirements, leading to unambiguous and testable user story acceptance criteria.
• Maintains the product backlog using Atlassian JIRA.
• Works with Product Owners during Sprint Planning to select the user stories to be developed.
• Regularly communicates status updates through daily standup meetings with the application development team.
• Ensures all elements of system development are considered through cross-collaboration with user experience/user interface personnel, data migration resources, and the agency data governance team.
• Performs in-sprint testing and acceptance of user stories under development, as well as end-to-end regression testing of complete workflows.
• Regularly participates in Sprint Reviews and performs demonstrations of finished development to stakeholders for review and approval.
• Promotes continuous team performance improvement by identifying team successes and areas for improvement during Sprint Retrospectives.
• Facilitates and participates in User Acceptance Testing prior to field release.
• Performs some end-user support and troubleshooting.
• Promotes and engages in regular knowledge exchange and idea sharing with teammates.
• May perform analysis of legacy systems, identifying "pain points" in older workflows leading to system and performance improvements.
• May contribute to the development of training materials for newly developed system functionality.
• Create functional design documentation.
• Support the build out of the feature dictionary.
• Write detailed and actionable user stories, epics and defects.
• Provide requirement and design related assistance to the development team as required.
• Assist in creating testing artifacts to support functionality.
• Execute functional test scripts.
• Cross-functional engagement to support the overall program mission.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience gathering/documenting requirements at the feature/Epic level
• Experience leading and driving design discussions with client stakeholders
• Strong verbal and written communication skills across all levels (users, stakeholders, leadership, and IT)
• Comfort engaging senior-level client stakeholders
• Superior time management, organization and prioritization skills
• Ability to meet with and deal effectively with people
• Relationship builder with the flexibility and finesse to "manage by influence"
• High energy, maturity, and leadership with the ability to serve as a thought leader for program discussions at the strategic and tactical levels
• High attention to detail
• Ability to quickly and effectively adapt to change
• Microsoft Office proficiency, including Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and/or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification.
• Prior experience in Agile system development.
• Prior knowledge or experience working within a Federal law enforcement environment.
• Experience with Atlassian JIRA product software.
• Understanding of inventory of OOTB Pega workflows.
• Understanding of Pega framework.

Experience Requirements:

• >1 year of experience with SQL, Excel and Jira

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required

About Us:

IntelliBridge delivers IT strategy, cloud, cybersecurity, application, data and analytics, enterprise IT, intelligence analysis, and mission operation support services to accelerate technical performance and efficiency for Defense, Civilian, and National Security & Federal Law Enforcement clients.