CORMAC is seeking a highly skilled
Business Analyst to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will possess a background working in Agile development, proficiency in creating user stories, and excellent communication skills. This role will involve cross-functional collaboration to ensure complex business needs are translated into actionable requirements. The analyst will also support iteration planning, backlog grooming, testing activities, support, and training.
Responsibilities- Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Stakeholders, and Agile Teams to understand business needs and translate them into actionable user stories and features.
- Elicit, analyze, and document business, system, and functional requirements, processes, and workflows using Agile principles.
- Collaborate closely with Product Owners to refine and prioritize backlogs, define acceptance criteria, and support PI (Program Increment) planning.
- Translate business needs into clear and concise user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria.
- Ensure requirements are continuously refined and ready for development teams in upcoming Sprints/Iterations.
- Facilitate backlog grooming, prioritization, and clarification of acceptance criteria with cross-functional teams.
- Work closely with developers and testers to ensure business needs are accurately translated into functional specifications and technical requirements.
- Ensure alignment between business goals and solution implementation.
- Partner with QA to support test case development and validation of requirements.
- Triage and expedite production support tickets, work with user support teams to provide issue updates, and coordinate with technical teams for resolution.
- Facilitate workshops, interviews, and stakeholder discussions to gather requirements and drive consensus.
- Support UAT (User Acceptance Testing), training, and ensure delivered features meet business expectations.
Required Skills & Experience- Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst in Agiledevelopment environments.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen.
- Must have the ability to obtain a Public Trust (Tier 1) Security Clearance.
- Prior experience in government or healthcare environments (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, VA, CMS).
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, especially Scrum andSAFe(Scaled Agile Framework).
- Proficient in creating epics, features, and user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex information.
- Proficiency with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Excel for backlog and requirement management.
Preferred Skills- Prior experience in government or healthcare environments (e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, VA, CMS).
- Prior experience working/supporting CMS Survey & Certification (S&C).
- Agile and SAFe certifications (e.g., SAFe Practitioner, SAFe Agilist, or SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager).
- Experience using UI/UX design tools (e.g.,Figma, Balsamiq), process diagramming tools (e.g.,Lucid, Visio), and data querying tools (e.g.,SQL, DBeaver).
