Senior Product Analyst

Techno Talent Group - Reston, VA

Full-time - Senior

Reston, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Product Analyst will play a critical role in bridging the gap between business needs and technology solutions. This position requires a deep understanding of product management and analysis, particularly within the healthcare domain. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in agile methodologies, with a proven track record of leading requirements capture, management, and analysis activities throughout all phases of the software development lifecycle. The Senior Product Analyst will work closely with customers, users, and other contractors to gather, understand, and document business, functional, technical, and non-technical requirements. This role demands excellent communication skills, both oral and written, as well as the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders to ensure that their needs are met. In this position, the Senior Product Analyst will conduct Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions and user research, facilitating usability testing to gather feedback and refine requirements. The candidate will be responsible for developing and maintaining a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and creating Change Requests in accordance with established policies and procedures. The role also involves crafting user stories and requirement documents that adhere to project standards and guidance, ensuring that all deliverables are aligned with the agile methodology, specifically Scrum and Kanban. The Senior Product Analyst will collaborate with development and testing teams to implement requirements as per functional specifications, providing clear qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders. This position requires a proactive approach to support change control processes that monitor and control project scope, ensuring that the product vision is maintained throughout the development process. The candidate must be able to communicate effectively with management, peers, and customers, maintaining professionalism at all times.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers, users, and other contractors to gather, understand, and document business, functional, technical & non-technical requirements.
• Conduct Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions, work group calls and engage customers to provide requirements and feedback.
• Conduct user research and usability testing.
• Develop and sustain Requirements Tractability Matrix (RTM).
• Develop Change Requests per established policies and procedures.
• Develop user stories and requirement documents as per project standards and guidance.
• Follow agile methodology (Scrum/Kanban) and deliver requirements/specifications for Sprint teams.
• Provide clear qualitative and quantitative information to teams and stakeholders.
• Work with development and testing team to implement requirements as per functional specifications.
• Support change control processes established to monitor and control project scope.
• Conduct Product Analysis sessions, work group calls and engage customers to provide requirements and feedback.
• Follow agile methodology (Scrum/Kanban) and develop user stories with robust acceptance criteria.
• Work with sprint team to implement, accept, and accept user stories as defined.
• Must be able to communicate with management, peers, and customers effectively and professionally.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree is required.
• Must be able to obtain a public trust clearance.
• 8+ years of experience as a product owner, business analyst, product analyst, leading requirements capture, management and analysis activities along all phases of the agile software development and developing business process models.
• Expertise with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Power Point, SharePoint, etc.).
• Must have intermediate to advanced skills with Microsoft Project/Smartsheet.
• Experience with manual testing of software products.
• Knowledge of flow charts and UML using Visio, Lucidchart or similar tools will be a plus.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Expertise with Agile tools like JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Trello, etc.
• Knowledge of Healthcare, Medicare & Medicaid systems & data.
• 5+ years of experience in healthcare domain is required.
• Creative, visionary, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of flow charts and UML using Visio, Lucidchart or similar tools will be a plus.