TITLE: Senior Requirements Analyst

REPORTS TO: Senior Director, Software

Development

DEPARTMENT: Information Technology

FLSA STATUS: Exempt

POSITION: #

PAY BAND: P3

POSITION SUMMARY
We are building clients next-generation item authoring platform and assessment development
platform, called Hive. Questions on the SAT, PSAT, and Accuplacer assessments are
meticulously written, re-written, measured, tested, and balanced before they are ever presented
to students. Hive will manage these activities, in addition to providing versioning, workflow, and
test assembly features. This is a mission critical application for client. Hive is also a brand new
capability for us, which provides us a large degree of freedom to experiment and evolve our
software development and customer delivery processes.
As the Senior Requirements Analyst at client, you will interface with the business and program
areas to understand their product needs. From this understanding, the Senior Requirements
Analyst will work with the Delivery Team and the business to define the scope of a
project/release, develop use case models, create activity diagrams, write user stories and/or use
cases, and write supplemental specifications to describe the application requirements to support
the project scope. The Analyst must have excellent communication skills, both written and oral,
be sensitive to the changing needs of the business, be able to analyze problems and recommend
solutions, and be able to work with minimal supervision.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES
Relationship Management:
Works closely with the product owner on the business program side to help understand
business vision, requests and needs.
Maintains and informs the IT project manager about key decisions, risks, and status of
requirements activities.
Builds and maintains highly effective relationships with all College Board teams and
vendors. Ensure relationships with the team members, stakeholders and cross-team
members are professional and meet management expectations.
Scoping and Planning:
Maintain the product backlog/scope list for the project.
Interacts with business owners, SMEs, and key stakeholders to:
o Determine feature roadmap and release planning.
o Provide a prioritized product backlog/scope list for each sprint planning. Work
with the development and testing team to help estimate level of effort for each
sprint.
o Maintain the sprint backlog/scope list during the sprint iteration.
o Review and prioritize defects during and after sprint and decide where to include
them. Is available to the development/QA team during the entire sprint process
including grooming, planning, development and QA time in order to provide input
and clarification in a timely manner.

Requirements Elicitation:
Conducts JAD sessions to elicit requirements using IT best practices. Analyze and
translate business requirements into system requirements (functional and non-functional
business requirements) and document requirements using various types of requirements
artifacts such as System context diagrams, Use Case models, Use Cases, User Stories,
and Activity Diagrams to further define system requirements.
Conducts reviews of requirements with the product owner to obtain agreement.
Conducts reviews of requirements and issues with development and testing team.
Communicates agreed upon requirements as well as answer any requirement questions
to/from key stakeholders.
Ensures requirements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable,
feasible, unambiguous, verifiable, and that they conform to College Board standards.
Meeting Management and Facilitation:
Uses industry best practices for setting up meetings such as identifying stakeholders,
managing and facilitating requirements elicitation and open questions/actions during the
meeting, closing out meetings with next steps (action plan), documenting and sending out
meeting notes, and tracking progress of meeting decisions/actions.
Issue and Change Reviews:
Facilitate defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify
severity and set priorities as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and conform to
deadlines.
Quickly understand issues and challenges faced by the business. Accurately and
concisely articulate issues, risks, questions, and recommendations to customers, team
members and management. Asks probing questions to fully understand business
requirements and provide feedback to the business on the implications of requests.
Demonstrate the ability to identify issues and problems, and recommend solutions either
at the project or program level, taking into consideration enterprise-level initiatives.
Mentor:
Provides mentorship to other junior analysts with regard to Requirements Management
best practices.
Requirements Definition and Management Discipline:
Develop and maintain advanced expertise and an in-depth understanding and use of
Industry best practices and SDLC methodologies such as Agile, Rational Unified
Process, etc.
Recommend improvements to College Board Requirements Management best practices
and methods in order to more effectively deliver requirements and support the business
and IT.
Act as a liaison between the business representatives and IT, providing insight to each
team of the others needs and expectations.
Demonstrate excellent communication skills, both spoken and written.
PRINCIPAL RELATIONSHIPS

Internal Contacts:
Maintains regular contact with staff on the delivery team, others in the IT department fulfilling
similar responsibilities, and our partners on the Assessment Design and Development, Research,
and Program teams.
External Contacts:
Maintains frequent contacts with vendors and partners with a moderate impact on the image,
reputation and/or business or operational well-being of client.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education/Experience
Desired Travel
Areas of Expertise
Highest Level of Education
Job Type
Location
Years of Relevant Experience

Less than 25%

Business and requirements analysis.
Bachelor's Degree, Masters preferred.
Full Time
Reston, VA
7-10 in business systems analysis in a large-scale environment
across multiple hardware and software platforms.

Other Related Experience

Experience with requirements management tools.

Experience using Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Office tools, preferably.
Experience using Wiki, Jira, IBM Rational Requisite Pro and IBM Rational Clear Quest are
desirable.
Understanding of software development life cycles (SDLC's) .
Understanding and application of several software development methodologies, depending
on the methodology employed by the project.
Experience in business and systems analysis, design and documentation.
Demonstrated high competency in systems analysis for multiple large projects.
Demonstrated competency in strategic thinking and leadership with strong abilities in
relationship management.
Superior verbal and written communication skills.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
Experience in process analysis and documentation.
Strong organizational skills.
Experience in meeting facilitation and meeting notes documentation.
Understanding of various issues tracking/resolution, scope estimation and scope
management processes.
Understanding of use case and activity diagrams and use case specifications or user stories.