COMPLETE Power Platform Business Analyst

Introduction
At IBM, we know that transformation drives change, and it is in our DNA to continuously transform. Our Business Transformation Consultants help drive large scale change that spans IBM business units and geographies. As a part of this team, you will have the unique opportunity to be a part of driving IBM’s ongoing transformation as a company that continuously innovates and leads the market.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Octo, an IBM company, is an industry-leading, award-winning provider of technical solutions for the federal government. At Octo, we specialize in providing agile software engineering, user experience design, cloud services, and digital strategy services that address government's most pressing missions. Octo delivers intelligent solutions and rapid results, yielding lower costs and measurable outcomes.

Our team is what makes Octo great. At Octo you'll work beside some of the smartest and most accomplished staff you'll find in your career. Octo offers fantastic benefits and an amazing workplace culture where you will feel valued while you perform mission critical work for our government. Voted one of the region’s best places to work multiple times, Octo is an employer of choice!

Job Description

You...

As a Microsoft Power Platform Business Analyst / Tester at Octo, you will join an Agile development program responsible for modernizing and maintaining operations for a suite of highly visible applications for a federal government agency. You are comfortable working side by side with software engineers, product managers, designers, and clients, making decisions together to assist the team in quickly breaking down features into user stories through progressive elaboration and tracking and reporting on operational needs. You must be willing to ask questions and dig deep to identify and solve problems experienced by the team and the customer and focus on continuous improvement, making thoughtful suggestions for areas of process enhancement.

Us…

We were founded as a fresh alternative in the Government Consulting Community and are dedicated to the belief that results are a product of analytical thinking, agile design principles and that solutions are built in collaboration with, not for, our customers. This mantra drives us to succeed and act as true partners in advancing our client’s missions.

The Program Mission…

This program will support the agency’s Information Technology mission to provide development and operational support of new and existing legacy mission-enabling applications. The team will work to modernize current applications by breaking them down into loosely coupled micro-services and leveraging a continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline to enable an agile DevOps Strategy.

Skills & Requirements

Responsibilities:

• Support the Power Apps Development team by analyzing business requirements and translating them into Epics, Features, and User Stories
• Supporting the verification process of Power Apps applications by writing and performing manual tests as well as implementing Power Apps Test Studio for automated testing
• Support the modernization of legacy SharePoint, .NET, and Infopath applications to the Power Platform
• Responsible for documenting User Guides and System Design Documents

Years of Experience: 3+ years of related experience. Education (1 or more years of college) may be substituted for 1 year of experience. Only 1 year of experience can be substituted

Education: Bachelor’s degree (preferred).

Location: DC Metro Area (preferred)

Clearance: Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Active Secret preferred.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Must be able to conduct a thorough analysis of as-is business processes and work with stakeholders, subject-matter experts, and end-users to produce requirements.
• Must be able to write and conduct thorough manual tests of Power Apps applications
• Has an understanding of the features and capabilities of the Microsoft Power Platform tools, including Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Automate
• Be able to lead and participate in agile ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, product demos, and backlog refinement.
• Communicates regularly and builds strong relationships with product owners, project managers, technical leads, software developers, etc., to identify information needs, facilitate information exchange, and ensure adherence to business requirements and program standards.
• Writes clear and specific user stories which clearly define the who, what, and business value of the user story.
• Captures Agile artifacts to include User Stories (Planned vs. Actual), Velocity Charts, Burn-down Charts, Sprint Retrospective notes, etc.
• Analyzes business process flows to develop activity models and detailed requirements.
• Has the ability to transform business requirements into technical requirements for the Development team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate solutions effectively to technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Microsoft certifications related to Dynamics / Power Apps / Power Platform
• SAFe Agile and Certified Scrum Master Certifications