Business Analyst

Desired skills/certifications (any additional skills desired but not required to be considered for the position):

Location:
Reston, Virginia or possibility for remote (U.S.)

We are seeking highly motivated Business Analysts to join our team and play a pivotal role in advancing federal and state agency's management of their data ecosystems. AEM Business Analysts understand the customer's business requirements and business process management and then translate them to system requirements. In this position, you will design and document workflows and manage and provide solutions to client business needs that reduce burden and increase efficiency.

You will document test cases, manage and execute testing of systems, and assist with end user testing and acceptance. You will play an integral role in helping to manage system implementation and ensuring quality standards are met.

AEM is a recognized market leader in helping education clients improve the programs, systems, processes, and data used to advance student learning. AEM is more than a successful company, it is an engaging and empowering organization with a strong culture of meaningfully supporting all staff. We are looking for team members who are ready to engage and become an integral part of our team as we continue to push to impact the fields of education, transportation, labor, and human services in powerful ways.

• You share our passion for data. This is an opportunity to work across multiple projects and customers to support the mission of federal and local government agencies.
• You are excited about the opportunity to both learn and teach. This is a dynamic space: data collections evolve and systems change; our team flexes with them.
• You are motivated to offer exceptional experiences. Technical subject matter can be challenging, so it helps to be empathetic, thoughtful, and patient.
• You have high standards. Ability is important, but AEM is set apart by more than talent. This position requires someone who works collaboratively with colleagues and takes ownership over the quality and value of their work. Across all of our projects, we want coworkers who work hard and are relentlessly competitive in setting new standards for themselves and for their teams.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit and document business and system requirements, working closely with business and IT teams to analyze requirements and identify solutions.
• Investigate and analyze business processes and workflows, identify improvement opportunities, and document processes and outcomes.
• Elicit requirements from stakeholders by conducting interviews, workshops, survey/questionnaires, prototypes, documentation analysis, and other requirements gathering techniques.
• Translate business needs into clear functional specifications, user stories, and create mock-ups.
• Write and maintain detailed functional specifications and requirements for new or modified systems.
• Facilitate requirement review and validation sessions with client and development teams.
• Maintain traceability of requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage changes to requirements through formal change control processes.
• Follow agile development processes and support/lead scrum meetings and ceremonies.
• Create or assist in creating user documentation, user guides, training materials, and conduct training sessions for system users.
• Monitor and document post-implementation problems.
• Apply business and functional knowledge, including testing standards, to meet the team's overall test objectives.
• Decompose business requirements into test cases that can be utilized by the internal team and external users. Analyze the project's business requirements through test case documentation to ensure requirements are met by the development team.
• Design and execute the test scripts and test scenarios. Execute all test cases, report defects, and coordinate with the development team to prioritize defects.
• Prepare, manage, and lead user acceptance testing with external users. Document feedback and issues from user acceptance testing.
• Complete regression…