Senior Business/Functional Analyst
Overview
Nakupuna Federal is seeking a Senior Business/Functional Analyst to join our team of talented consultants providing Contractor Support Services (CSS) to the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Business Systems Center (BSC). Support under this contract includes technical services supporting application development efforts to modernize NAVSUP supply and logistics applications and manage associated technical debt. The Senior Business/Functional Analyst will provide functional and business analysis expertise throughout the software development lifecycle and work closely with Government and contractor team members in an Agile delivery environment.
Responsibilities
The following reflects management's definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Management may assign additional duties and responsibilities to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons:
- Provide functional knowledge and subject matter expertise for assigned applications and perform assigned application support activities.
- Elicit, analyze, document, validate, and maintain business and functional requirements obtained from customers, users, and other stakeholders.
- Create, update, and maintain work items in the Enterprise Platform, currently AzDO, ensuring activities and supporting information are accurately documented and kept current within five business days.
- Work with the Government PO/PM to decompose requirements and stories into work that can reasonably be completed within a sprint, generally within 10–15 business days and assist in defining Acceptance Criteria and the sprint Definition of Done.
- Identify and document the tasks required to successfully complete Product Backlog Items (PBIs) in AzDO.
- Develop PBI estimates and project roadmaps in support of project requirements, priorities, and schedules.
- Establish and maintain traceability and dependencies between requirements, including Epics, Features, PBIs, Stories, Tasks, and associated systems, within AzDO.
- Work closely with the Government to continually maintain the Product Backlog in alignment with the Agile cadence, ensuring necessary Release and Sprint Backlog items are defined with Acceptance Criteria and available for Government prioritization before the start of each release and sprint.
- Support development priorities in accordance with the Program Backlog.
- Adhere to Scrum best practices and participate in recommended Scrum Events and Artifacts in accordance with the 2020 Scrum Guide, Agile Kanban practices, or other Agile or Scrum practices approved by the Government PO.
- Effectively facilitate and participate in Scrum and Agile events and practices.
- Support the full range of System/Software Development Lifecycle activities, including requirements, analysis, design, development, testing, security, and deployment.
- Coordinate analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment activities necessary to complete assigned stories in accordance with Acceptance Criteria and the Definition of Done.
- Propose Minimum Viable Product (MVP) solutions that provide an initial capability to end users while enabling user feedback to influence future development sprints.
- Develop documentation in accordance with Agile Scrum best practices and the NAVSUP BSC Service Delivery Model.
- Identify, define, or modify interfaces with other systems and applications and ensure agreements with interfacing systems/applications are formally documented.
- Analyze system requirements and translate functional designs into detailed logic sufficient to support coding of assigned software systems, modules, and components.
- Review individual modules and overall system designs for validity, including validation of record input, data elements, and output reports.
- Perform required testing based on established Acceptance Criteria and Definition of Done to verify software and system qual