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Role Description

As a Business Analyst/QA Tester, you will lead the collection, capture, and management of mission user needs from prioritization, concept development, and feature writing to support development and deployment. You will provide expertise in business process and system analysis, design, improvement, and implementation efforts, translating business process needs into technical requirements. Additionally, you will offer expertise in change management and training support, as well as organizational and strategic planning for a wide variety of technical and functional environments.

• Envision, develop, and create requirements to improve tools to streamline processes to gain efficiencies and improve key metrics.
• Apply different techniques to facilitate meetings and workshops, create a shared understanding with stakeholders, and engage team members to produce product and portfolio roadmaps.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and product teams to decompose large epics into features and user stories that can be understood and approved by members of the development team.
• Facilitate Increment and planning sessions with clients and team members to ensure that planned work is well defined, planned, articulated, and understood.
• Assist business analysts, team leads, clients, and other team members in the use of JIRA as an Agile Lifecycle Management Tool to track work within the program across multiple product teams.
• Handle administrative functions in Salesforce applications including maintenance of user accounts, profiles, roles, security and data access, setting up workflows, sharing rules, and permission sets.
• Keep up-to-date on new Salesforce features and help determine if we should implement internally.
• Provide guidance and assistance in the usage of JIRA for reporting of work progress against epics and other larger bodies of work or types of work.
• Use excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and present findings and recommendations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 4+ years of functioning as a business analyst for the federal government.
• Functional knowledge of Salesforce.com data structure and understanding of how to leverage the tool to meet complex process and reporting requirements.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a government security clearance.
• Able and willing to work independently and in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines, with minimal supervision.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, as well as excellent communication skills, verbal and written to both technical and non-technical audiences that are in a geographically dispersed environment (conference calls, Skype, face-to-face).
• Ability to produce high-quality technical documentation and analysis.
• Take initiative to recommend process improvements and demonstrate creative thinking.
• Knowledge and experience with Agile and DevSecOps methodologies.
• Demonstrate sharp, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Meet with product design team to determine testing parameters.
• Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, and final QA reports for products.
• Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures.
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results, including three or more of the following:
  • Data validation testing
  • Functional testing
  • Performance and load testing
  • Usability testing
  • Accessibility (508) testing

Preferred

• Certified Scrum Master certification is preferred.

Benefits

• The projected compensation range for this position is $75,000 to $140,000.
• Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees.

Identity Statement

As part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Company Description

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health, and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee-owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth.

If you want to learn more about our story, visit Steampunk .

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.