Senior Business Analyst With Texas Department of Education

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience eliciting business and system requirements through customer/stakeholder interviews and documenting well-written system requirements.
• 8+ years of experience working across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• 8+ years of experience in business process re-engineering and improving software process flows.
• 8+ years of experience creating user stories and use cases aligned with business analysis best practices.
• 8+ years of experience designing wireframes and mockups following UX best practices.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience with strong communication, stakeholder facilitation, and presentation skills.
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience with strong technical writing, documentation, and organizational skills.
• 1+ year of hands-on experience using Atlassian Jira for issue and project tracking.
• 1+ year of experience using a requirements management tool (e.g., Modern Requirements).
• 1+ year of experience working with TEA (Texas Education Agency), a federal/state/local education agency, or an education vendor.