JIRA Analyst

CEdge has an opportunity for a JIRA ANALYST (Agile product manager)This role is located in Springfield/Chantilly VA. If you are ready to work alongside World Renowned Technology experts, and carry the skills below, this is the opportunity that will inevitably take your career to unbelievable levels!

***This position requires a TS/SCI Security Clearance***

Overall Assignment Description:

The CIO-T/TEF/TEFD requires a JIRA Analyst (Agile Product Manager) support to AWP program. The contractor shall provide services to ensure recommended technology and capabilities meet community IT standards and are consistent with services in use across NGA and the community. The frequency of occurrence of the below-listed requirements are weekly, unless otherwise stated. Specifically, the contractor shall:

Duties may include:

• Execute the agile release management lifecycle which includes daily scheduling, coordinating, and the management of releases across the enterprise for all customer facing external websites on all domains (Top Secret, Secret and Unclassified).

• Maintain and track Agile development schedule in an appropriate project management capability (e.g. JIRA, Confluence etc.).

• Manage and lead client software release leveraging Agile processes, tools and templates.

• Decompose customer requests into features.

• Define and document acceptance criteria for each story clearly.

• Work closely with Government stakeholders to effectively manage customer expectations for all software releases.

• Work directly with internal and external stakeholders, including senior staff and department managers, to ensure successful translation of requirements into high-quality product deliverables.

• Track action items and actively identify and mitigate risks.

• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes.

• Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations.

• Conduct release readiness reviews, backlog grooming sessions, release planning events, milestone reviews, and business go/no-go decisions.

• Formulate and translate user or functional requirements and mission needs into technical terminology and specifications.

• Maintain the release schedule and program road map for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and programs.

• Ensure traceability between requirements, features and user stories.

• Review test cases against stories' acceptance criteria.

• Assist in maintaining configuration management of product backlog.

• Actively participating in testing and Q&A sessions.

• Conducting release readiness reviews, backlog grooming sessions, release planning events, milestone reviews, and Sprint Demos.

Skills and Experience: Required

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience within related field with 11-14 years of work experience.

• Demonstrated experience in Agile Release Management including planning and/or management of release schedule and activities.

• Demonstrated experience applying Agile software practices and/or software development lifecycle.

• Demonstrated experience leading teams handling customer feedback requirements, writing user stories and acceptance criteria, and developing capability/tools documentation.

• PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification or Agile Certification.

• Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability to take the initiative to complete tasks in a timely manner.

• Working knowledge of quality assurance/testing methodologies

Desired

• Minimum of 2 years experience working with JIRA applications.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

Full Benefits Package

10 Days PTO

10 Paid Holidays

401K

WHO ARE WE?

CEdge Software Consultants is an innovative IT consulting firm, and a strategic business partner. We offer IT solutions to Federal and State government, as well as, Commercial Enterprises throughout the United States. Our main objective is to create an integrity-based culture that takes pride in working as a collaborative team that focuses on growth and is driven by the desire to provide purely ethical services for both our clients and team mates.