Senior Agile Business Analyst/Tester (REMOTE)

Koniag Government Services•Washington, DC

2d•Remote

About The Position

Koniag Professional Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a Senior Agile Business Analyst/Tester to support KPS, its government customer, and the CRM, Integration, and Platform Services workforce. This remote role manages and oversees complex technology initiatives from requirements definition through testing and implementation. The position combines technical knowledge, Agile business analysis, user story development, UAT testing, JIRA expertise, and program management support. The Senior Agile Business Analyst/Tester serves as a bridge between business stakeholders, product owners, developers, QA teams, and program leadership. The role translates business needs into clear technical requirements, develops detailed user stories and acceptance criteria, coordinates UAT activities, manages defects, resolves blockers, and supports delivery across multiple workstreams. The candidate must be able to obtain a Public Trust. Applications are accepted through 11/27/26.

Requirements

At least 7 years of experience as a Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, QA Analyst/Tester, or in a similar role within technology delivery environments.
Substantial experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
Demonstrated experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting business and technical requirements.
Extensive experience writing user stories and detailed acceptance criteria.
Strong hands-on experience with UAT planning, coordination, execution, and defect management.
Advanced JIRA experience, including managing user stories, epics, tasks, defects, workflows, dashboards, and reports.
Strong technical understanding of software applications, system integrations, APIs, databases, data flows, and SDLC processes.
Experience working directly with software development and QA teams.
Ability to translate business requirements into clear, actionable technical requirements and test scenarios.
Experience creating test cases, test scenarios, test scripts, and traceability between requirements and testing.
Experience identifying, documenting, prioritizing, and tracking blockers and defects through resolution.
Experience supporting program and project management activities, including risks, issues, dependencies, milestones, status reporting, and stakeholder communications.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively across multiple teams and workstreams.
Ability to obtain a Public Trust.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), PMI-PBA, or similar certification.
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), or equivalent Agile certification.
ISTQB, CSTE, or other software testing certification.
Experience with Salesforce, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or comparable Agile/ALM tools.
Experience with Power BI or Tableau.
Experience working with APIs, SQL, data validation, or other technical analysis tools.
Experience supporting enterprise-scale technology transformation or modernization programs.
Experience working with distributed or cross-functional technology teams.

Responsibilities

Partner with business stakeholders, Product Owners, technical teams, and program leadership to understand business objectives, processes, and technology needs.
Elicit, analyze, document, and validate functional and technical requirements.
Create and maintain epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, business requirements, process flows, and supporting documentation.
Write clear, detailed, testable user stories for development and QA teams.
Collaborate with Product Owners and development teams to refine and prioritize the product backlog.
Support Agile ceremonies, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release planning.
Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.
Develop and execute UAT strategies, test scenarios, test cases, and validation plans.
Coordinate UAT activities with business users, QA, development, and product teams.
Validate delivered functionality against documented business requirements and acceptance criteria.
Identify, document, prioritize, and track blockers and defects through resolution.
Use JIRA to manage requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, defects, tasks, sprint activities, and reporting.
Analyze technical issues with developers and technical leads to understand root causes and determine appropriate solutions.
Develop an understanding of applications, integrations, APIs, databases, data flows, environments, and system dependencies to support technical delivery.
Support end-to-end software development and implementation, including requirements, development, testing, release, and post-production support.
Track project- and program-level risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and action items.
Provide program management support, including status reporting, milestone tracking, meeting coordination, RAID management, dependency tracking, and management-level updates.
Coordinate activities across teams and workstreams to support delivery schedules and program milestones.
Assist with release readiness and ensure outstanding defects, requirements, and UAT issues are addressed.
Identify opportunities to improve business analysis, testing, Agile delivery, and program processes.
Maintain accurate project documentation and communicate requirements, testing status, risks, issues, and delivery progress clearly.