The Senior Business and Quality Analyst will be responsible for leading and performing all aspects of a software application development and/ or O&M contracts, including building and leading development teams, working with analysists, developers, and other project roles to deliver successfully on projects. Responsibilities will include but are not limited to, following SDLC best practices, sprint and release planning, understanding customer needs, conducting business analysis, monitoring development/ execution, conducting work-product acceptance, facilitating user acceptance, reporting, and quality assurance of project process flow.
The candidate will be expected to work with minimal supervision, employ effective time management skills to organize and handle multiple highly visible priorities, projects, and products simultaneously. Additional tasks will include advising and instructing project teams on process improvements to promote efficient project delivery and adherence to processes and standards (e.g. PMI and Agile frameworks).
This opening is for a full-time salaried position located in the ITCON Services headquarters in Vienna, VA. Candidate will be dividing time between client site and ITCON office. Applicant must be a permanent resident or citizen of the United States and clearable for Public Trust clearance with the U.S Government.
Required Skills and Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems or related field preferred
- 10+ years in the Information Technology industry
- 8+ years of experience as a Business and Quality Analyst
- Strong research and analytical skills
- Strong experience gathering business requirements and functional details
- bility to analyze and translate functional business requirements from stakeholders into detailed tasks for Design and Development teams
- Expert level understanding of SDLC and best practices
- Strong skills creating test plans, test cases, and end-to-end testing
- Strong written and oral and communication skills
- bility to communicate and present complex technical concepts and analysis to technical and non-technical audiences
- gile practitioner
- Hands on experience with JIRA
- Experience with tools such as Figma
- bility to learn new technologies quickly
- Self-motivated and thrives in a team environment
- ble to multithread and move multiple projects forward
- Experience in capturing requirements for reports and dashboards
- Experience in developing basic reports and dashboards
- Experience in writing SQL
- Experience in testing APIs
- Experience in Selenium scripting for automated testing
- Experience in Section 508 testing and VPAT
Desired Skills and Qualifications - Experience with Federal Government Customers
- gile certification/ Product Owner certification