Requirements Analyst (DHS - SEVP)

Requirements Analyst (DHS Student and Exchange Visitor Program - SEVP)

Changeis Inc. is an award-winning 8(a) certified, woman-owned small business that provides management consulting and engineering services to the public sector.  

The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) is a part of the National Security Investigations Division and acts as a bridge for government organizations that have an interest in information on nonimmigrants whose primary reason for coming to the United States is to be students.  We seek a dynamic self-starter with familiarity with the SEVP program to work in a business analyst function.

As the Requirements Analyst, you will work closely with the product owners to define and analyze requirements analysis for clarity, efficiency, suggested priority, quality and traceability. You are key in communicating the vision of the product owner and requirements for, the projects to the Planning and Development Teams.

In this role, you will get to:

• Support the development and documentation of the business functions and capabilities, the broad vision of the system
• Assist in the reengineering of business processes to better utilize technology
• Define data elements shared between SMU and other units in the enterprise and the relationships between those data elements and processes, people, systems, and other data elements
• Suggest improvements to the business strategic, core and support processes of the business unit, as needed, to support strategic goals
• Capture the tactical and strategic business goals that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance
• Create and maintain an ongoing model of roles, capabilities and business processes within the SEVP units, the decomposition of those business units into process flows, and the interplay between these units in various business processes, materials, people, and systems pertaining to a CRM
• Develop user stories that support the SEVPAMS capabilities pertaining to business needs using the Team Foundation Server (TMS)
• Help to elicit specific business requirements from end-users, where applicable
• Manage the priority of the backlog under the direction of the product owner
• Work closely with developers to ensure they understand the story, answer questions, and make story modifications were requested and approved by the product owner
• Work with testers to verify that the requirements are testable
• Support the product owner with acceptance testing
• Participation in the relevant Scrum planning and review meetings
• Assist in requirements gathering and visualization for SEVPAMS site development or configuration
• Assist the administrator and/or developer in SEVPAMS site management as provided in the SEVPAMS governance document
• Respond to a service request for assistance via the SEVPAMS Helpdesk
• Support the SEVPAMS Helpdesk operation

Requirements

• BA/BS in a 4 year accredited university/college in a relevant field of study
• 3-5 years of experience working in a position involving business requirements gathering
• Experience working in an environment using CRM
• Working knowledge of AGILE methodology
• Working knowledge of story writing, managing a backlog, and requirements gathering
• Experience in creating roadmaps, flow charts and visualization
• Preferred experience in working with Dynamics 360 and SharePoint
• MS Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Excel, MS Team Foundation Server, JIRA