The Role
Supports Texas Education Agency system enhancement and rewrite projects by eliciting, documenting, managing, and validating business and software requirements throughout the SDLC. Responsibilities include facilitating workshops and interviews, creating user stories, use cases, process flows, UML diagrams, wireframes, and mockups, tracking requirements, coordinating UAT, maintaining traceability, managing change control, and verifying post-implementation enhancements.
Summary Generated by Built In
This is a hybrid role; only local candidates will be considered.
The Senior Business Analyst will support the Texas Education Agency on multiple projects focused on major system enhancements and rewrite efforts. These projects support the agency’s mission of improving outcomes for Texas students. The Senior Business Analyst will perform advanced business analysis and serve as the conduit through which requirements flow between the program and customer community and the software development team. This role will participate throughout the entire software development life cycle. Once the requirements baseline is established, the focus will shift to managing the requirements specification and verifying that all requirements are fulfilled, including post-implementation enhancements.
Responsibilities
- Elicit requirements through joint application development (JAD) sessions, requirements workshops, interviews, document analysis, storyboards, surveys, and site visits.
- Gather requirements using use cases, scenarios, competitive product analysis, and task and workflow analysis.
- Apply advanced analysis techniques to identify user needs, business processes, pain points, and system capabilities that can automate or improve existing systems.
- Transform elicitation results into business requirements, functional requirements, use cases, user stories, and software requirements specification documents.
- Write requirements with standard templates and simple, unambiguous, and concise natural language.
- Create process flows, context diagrams, UML diagrams, wireframes, and mockups from elicitation results.
- Use initiative and independent judgment to participate in the software development life cycle and manage deadlines.
- Follow change control procedures and track requirement status throughout the project life cycle.
- Coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT) and maintain requirements traceability.
- Manage the requirements specification after the baseline is established and verify that all requirements are fulfilled, including post-implementation enhancements.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications - Candidates must meet all minimum qualifications
- 8 years of experience eliciting requirements through customer interviews and creating well-written system requirements.
- 8 years of experience with software development life cycles (SDLCs).
- 8 years of experience in business process re-engineering and software process flow improvement.
- 8 years of experience developing user stories and use cases that conform to business analysis best practices.
- 8 years of experience designing mockups and/or wireframes that conform to UX best practices.
- 8 years of demonstrated strong communication and facilitation skills.
- 8 years of demonstrated strong writing and organization skills.
- 4 years of documented work experience with Atlassian Jira issue tracking software.
Preferred Qualifications
- 4 years of documented experience working for or closely with the Texas Education Agency, a federal, state, or local education agency, or an education vendor.
- 3 years of documented work experience with Modern Requirements requirements management software.
- 2 years of experience supporting complaint and case management workflows, including intake, investigation, and resolution.
- 2 years of experience with the educator certification process, federal or state grant programs, or state funding programs.
Additional Requirements
- Must currently reside within 50 miles of the Austin, Texas work location.
- Work outside normal business hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, may be required as requested.
Work Location and Schedule
Location: 1701 North Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas 78701.
Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, excluding State holidays when the agency is closed.
Work Arrangement: Hybrid (on-site and telework)
Skills Required
- 8 years of experience eliciting requirements through customer interviews and creating well-written system requirements
- 8 years of experience with software development life cycles
- 8 years of experience in business process re-engineering and software process flow improvement
- 8 years of experience developing user stories and use cases conforming to business analysis best practices
- 8 years of experience designing mockups and/or wireframes conforming to UX best practices
- 8 years of demonstrated strong communication and facilitation skills
- 8 years of demonstrated strong writing and organization skills
- 4 years of documented work experience with Atlassian Jira issue tracking software
- 4 years of documented experience working for or closely with the Texas Education Agency, a federal, state, or local education agency, or an education vendor
- 3 years of documented work experience with Modern Requirements requirements management software
- 2 years of experience supporting complaint and case management workflows, including intake, investigation, and resolution
- 2 years of experience with educator certification processes, federal or state grant programs, or state funding programs
- Must currently reside within 50 miles of Austin, Texas
- Must be available to work outside normal business hours, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, when requested
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