Business Analyst 7029

Essential Functions

• Elicitation & Analysis - Analyzes user needs, business processes, pain points, and computer system capabilities to automate or improve existing systems.
• Elicits requirements using joint application development (JAD), interviews, document analysis, surveys, use cases, competitive product analysis, and workflow analysis.
• Transforms information from elicitation sessions into business and functional requirements, use cases, user stories, software requirements specifications documents, wireframes, and mockups.
• Uses standard templates and simple, unambiguous, and concise natural language.
• Acts as a mentor to peers and colleagues in disseminating best practices and proactively seeks out training opportunities.
• Uses TEA tools, such as Jira and Modern Requirements, to manage the change control process, participate in the SDLC, and track and communicate requirements status.

Minimum Requirements

• Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
• Actual Years Experience Years Experience Needed Required/ Preferred Skills/Experience 8 Required Experience eliciting requirements from interviews with customers and creating well-written system requirements
• 8 Required Experience with software development life cycles (SDLCs)
• 8 Required Business process re-engineering and software process flow improvement experience
• 8 Required Experience developing user stories and use cases that conform to business analysis best practices
• 8 Required Experience designing mockups and/or wireframes that conform to UX best practices
• 5 Required Demonstrated strong communication and facilitation skills
• 5 Required Demonstrated strong writing and organization skills
• 2 Required Documented work experience with TEA OR a federal/state/local education agency OR education vendor
• 2 Required Documented work experience with the issue tracking software "Atlassian Jira"
• 2 Required Documented work experience with the requirements management software "Modern Requirements"
• 1 Preferred Experience working with special education data
• 1 Preferred Experience with Power BI data visualization features and capabilities