Business Systems Analyst/Documentation Specialist

MSD is an employee-owned company of over 600 professionals who support the diverse technical, scientific, and administrative needs of the Federal government. We are currently searching for an experienced Business Systems Analyst/Documentation Specialist to support one of our clients at the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is permanent, full-time, and on site in Bethesda/Rockville, MD.
The selected individual will serve as a Business Analyst/Documentation Specialist in the Custom Applications Branch, DECA, CIT and will provide requirements management development and technical documentation support to a wide assortment of projects.
Responsibilities
? Work with the product manager or project sponsor to document the product?s vision and the project?s scope.
? Identify project stakeholders and user classes. Document user class characteristics. Identify appropriate representatives for each user class and negotiate their responsibilities.
? Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints.
? Write requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely.
? Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements and quality, specified in an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by those must base their work on the requirements.
? Define quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements.
? Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams), prototypes, or scenarios, where appropriate.
? Lead requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.
? Participate in requirements prioritization.
? Participate in peer reviews and inspections of requirements documents. Participate in peer reviews of work products derived from requirements specifications to ensure that the requirements were interpreted correctly.
? Enter, manipulate, and report on requirements stored in a commercial requirements management tool. Define requirement attributes and facilitate their use throughout the project.
? Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project.
? Manage changes to baselined requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools.
? Establish and implement effective requirements practices, including use and continuous improvement of a requirements process. Assist with the development of the organization?s requirements engineering policies, procedures, and tools.
? Implement ways to reuse requirements across projects.
? Identify ways to assist product management in product planning through requirements development and analysis. Propose new product features and updates.
? Write and edit technical documentation for IT systems in a clear and concise manner that include but not limited to user manuals, training materials, software requirement specifications, technical design specifications, quality assurance documents, information security documents, operational procedures documents.