Requirements Analyst

ABOUT EDS:  EDS, an HP company, is a leading global technology services provider, delivering business solutions to its customers. EDS founded the information technology outsourcing industry more than 46 years ago. Today, as an HP business group, EDS delivers one of the industry's broadest portfolios of information technology and business process outsourcing services to customers in the manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, communications, energy, transportation, and consumer and retail industries, and to governments around the world. WHY EDS: We differentiate ourselves in the IT marketplace by providing outstanding service, innovation and industry thought leadership. To monitor our progress and encourage candid collaboration with our clients, we established the Service Excellence program. It is instrumental to our success in cultivating and maintaining long-term business relationships. Job description:Efficiently and effectively functions as a Release Lead by coordinating project resources, monitoring project tasks, and executing the project schedule.Creates and maintains project schedules using MS Project by identify activities, sequencing work, assigning resources, and recording planned effort, actual effort, durations, and progress to completion.Demonstrate an understanding of the clients’ business and IT needs as well as their IT standards for software, hardware, and documentation (the lifecycle).Comply with quality standards imposed by ICE OCIO, ITESS, and the project.Creates and maintains software project documentation including System Lifecycle Methodology documentation (project plans, requirements documents, requirements traceability documents, and deployment plans).Creates and maintains program process documentation (including standard operating procedures, checklists, templates, etc.)Creates meeting agendas and minutes for project meetings, client meetings, and other key project interactions.Create and maintain requirements in the project requirements tool and verify the completeness, clarity, and specifications with the client.Help define the project scope, plans, and deliverables by working with the Technical Lead, Operations Lead and Project Manager.Interface directly with the client by coordinating and facilitating client requirements gathering sessions, design reviews, status meetings, system walkthroughs, etc.Interface with the development staff, testing staff, configuration management staff, security staff, quality staff, and project leadership.Interfaces with staff from other systems, other contractors, and government agencies.Assist project leadership with development of estimates for project work packages, releases, and major initiatives.Assist with help desk ticket resolution.Work independently or in collaboration with others to achieve project milestones and cost objectives.Communicates with other staff to notify them of development milestones (ready for builds, completion of TPR rework, etc).Demonstrate good record keeping through updates to the system change requests (requirements) and other release documentationReport on status by providing thorough, clear, and detailed information as well as identifying issues that require escalation.Research system problems detected during environment setup, development, testing, implementation, and production to help quickly identify and fix the root cause of the problem so that there is minimal impact to the project schedule and the users.Review and provide input on system designs to ensure the designs fulfill the system requirements. Completes all corporate-required training and project-required training on time.Completes all corporate data calls on time.Completes timecards daily.Completes other tasks as assigned. Job essential functions:This person works with the Operations Lead, Technical Lead, and Project Manager to develop and manage requirements. Position Prerequisites:- Degree needed: Bachelor of Science (Information Systems, Engineering or related field) - Years of experience: 5 + years - Must have some experience working with web applications- Must have 3+ years experience working with requirements within the last 5 years (requirements elicitation, requirements definition, and requirements management)- Must have strong communication skills (oral and written)- Must have experience working directly with clients and senior leadership- Must possess strong MS Office skills (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)- Must possess strong MS Project skills- Must have full lifecycle experience (planning, requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance)- May demonstrate proven track record of meeting deadlines and quality standards- Spend 100% of the time completing technical tasks (managing and documenting requirements)- Must be a US Citizen- Must be able to obtain a security clearance from the Federal Government (5C or Medium Risk) **TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION** Go to the following link: http://www.edscareers.com  Select and click on link “Search for Jobs” Enter requisition number 2403768 in the “Keywords” field Apply for the position Thank you for your interest!*This position is not one for which the employer will sponsor an individual for employment visa status or pay relocation assistance.EDS and the EDS logo are registered trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP. EDS, an HP company, is an equal opportunity employer and values the diversity of its people. Copyright 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP.