Senior agile business analyst/tester (remote)

This position may be filled prior to the posted deadline. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

Koniag Professional Services, LLC a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a Senior Agile Business Analyst/Tester to support KPS and our government customer. The position is remote. This position requires the candidate to be able to obtain a Public Trust.

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement.

Koniag Professional Services, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a Senior Agile Business Analyst/Tester to support the CRM, Integration, and Platform Services workforce. The Senior Agile Business Analyst / Tester will manage and oversee complex technology initiatives from requirements definition through testing and implementation. This role requires a strong combination of technical knowledge, Agile business analysis, user story development, UAT testing, JIRA expertise, and program management support.

The Senior Agile Business Analyst/Tester will serve as a bridge between business stakeholders, product owners, developers, QA teams, and program leadership. The individual should be comfortable translating business needs into clear technical requirements, writing detailed user stories and acceptance criteria, coordinating UAT activities, managing defects, resolving blockers, and providing delivery support across multiple workstreams.

Key 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, and testable user stories that can be readily understood and implemented by 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.
• Serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.
• Develop and execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT) strategies, test scenarios, test cases, and validation plans.
• Coordinate UAT activities with business users, QA, development, and product teams.
• Validate that delivered functionality meets 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 and work collaboratively with developers and technical leads to understand root causes and determining appropriate solutions.
• Develop an understanding of applications, integrations, APIs, databases, data flows, environments, and system dependencies sufficient to effectively support technical delivery.
• Support end-to-end software development and implementation activities, 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 preparation of management-level updates.
• Coordinate activities across multiple teams and workstreams to support delivery schedules and program milestones.
• Assist with release readiness activities and ensure outstanding defects, requirements, and UAT issues are appropriately addressed.
• Identify opportunities to improve business analysis, testing, Agile delivery, and program processes.
• Maintain accurate project documentation and provide clear communication regarding requirements, testing status, risks, issues, and delivery progress.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, QA Analyst/Tester, or 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 experience with JIRA, 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.
• Strong 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.

Security Requirement:

Ability to obtain a Public Trust

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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, Power BI, 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.

Key Competencies:

• Agile Business Analysis
• User Story & Acceptance Criteria Development
• UAT Planning & Execution
• Functional & Technical Requirements
• JIRA & Agile Tooling
• Software Testing & Defect Management
• Technical Analysis
• Stakeholder Management
• Program/Project Management Support
• Risk & Dependency Management
• Process Analysis & Improvement
• Facilitation & Communication
• Problem Solving

Success in This Role:

Success in this role will be demonstrated through the ability to translate complex business needs into high-quality user stories and requirements, facilitate effective UAT, identify and resolve defects, collaborate effectively with technical teams, maintain strong JIRA-based delivery visibility, and provide reliable program management support across multiple workstreams.

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The company is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, creed, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification), national origin or ancestry, age, disability, citizenship, military/veteran status, marital status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment, promotion, wages, benefits, and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment.

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Koniag Government Services (KGS) is an Alaska Native Owned corporation supporting the values and traditions of our native communities through an agile employee and corporate culture that delivers Enterprise Solutions, Professional Services and Operational Management to Federal Government Agencies. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Koniag, we apply our proven commercial solutions to a deep knowledge of Defense and Civilian missions to provide forward leaning technical, professional, and operational solutions. KGS enables successful mission outcomes for our customers through solution-oriented business partnerships and a commitment to exceptional service delivery. We ensure long-term success with a continuous improvement approach while balancing the collective interests of our customers, employees, and native communities. For more information, please visit www.koniag-gs.com.

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