Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Athomtech, Inc is seeking a Business Analyst to support the Texas Education Agency on projects focused on improving outcomes for Texas students. The role performs advanced business analysis across the software development life cycle, including requirements elicitation, documentation, management, and verification. It also involves mentoring peers and using tools such as Jira and Modern Requirements to manage requirements and change control.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- Experience eliciting requirements from interviews with customers and creating well-written system requirements
- Experience with software development life cycles (SDLCs)
- Business process re-engineering and software process flow improvement experience
- Experience developing user stories and use cases that conform to business analysis best practices
- Experience designing mockups and/or wireframes that conform to UX best practices
- Demonstrated strong communication and facilitation skills
- Demonstrated strong writing and organization skills
- Documented work experience with TEA OR a federal/state/local education agency OR education vendor
- Documented work experience with the issue tracking software "Atlassian Jira"
- Documented work experience with a requirements management software tool, such as "Modern Requirements"
Benefits
- Remote role
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