Technical Requirements Analyst

SPARC, LLC is a Charleston, S.C. based systems integration organization, providing full software development lifecycle support services with experience in the commercial, federal, government, and contracting industries. SPARC’s mission is to provide business solutions through the agility and knowledge of our people and the performance they can drive for our clients. SPARC offers abroad range of solutions in order to enhance customer-focused results. Our clients range from government agencies and contracting organizations to private sector software solution providers.  

This individual will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Perform requirements planning to include development of a requirements management plan which describes the specific requirements practices and resources to be used on the project.
• Analyze business and user requirements for clarity, completeness, scope, and technical feasibility.
• Decompose business and user functional requirements into system and software functional and non-functional requirements.
• Define system quality and operational attributes, external interfaces, constraints, rules, and other non-functional requirements.
• Develop system use cases that describe the systems intended functional behavior.
• Develop supplementary specifications that capture system requirements that are not readily captured in use cases.
• Perform requirements modeling and develop UML diagrams which depict various perspectives of the systems functional behavior, to include, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, and state diagrams.
• Develop software requirements specifications that capture the software requirements for the complete system and serve as the build-to specification for development.
• Provide authoritative understanding of the systems implementation independent behavior to support:

- user experience designers in the development of mockups, prototypes, use

case storyboards, navigation maps, wireframes, and UX guidelines.

- solution architects in the development of architecture and design models;

- data designers in the development of logical and physical data models.

- test designers in the development of software test plans and test cases.

• Serve as the development team representative during UAT for the purpose of clarifying the intended functional behavior of the software.
• Manage requirements using web based requirements management packages.
• Define requirements attributes describing meta-data for each requirement in the requirements repository.
• Populate and maintain the attributes over the life-cycle of the requirement.
• Manage requirements traceability to include development of requirements traceability matrices.
• Support requirements triage to select the right requirements to include in a specific software release. Activities would include identification of relationships and dependencies between requirements, and estimation of technical effort.
• Manage changes to baselined requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools. Analyze SCRs for impact of change, etc.
• Support CCB meetings. Track requirements status throughout the project.
• At the end of each iteration or release, produce a lessons learned report which summarizes the effectiveness and efficiency of the requirements practices and resources employed on the project.
• Serve as primary liaison between the technical team and the product team for the purpose of establishing a common understanding of requirements and the as-built product.

Required Skills / Experience:

• Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain a security clearance.
• Must live in the Charleston, SC area.
• Specifying file formats and transformations from one format to another.
• Problem solving, decomposition, synthesis, managing complexity, modeling, organizational, written and oral communication, interpersonal skills - Agile software development experience/support.
• Objected oriented analysis and design methodologies.
• Technical analysis practices.
• Technical degree and certifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Unified Modeling Language (UML) and modeling tools.
• Rational Requirements Composer.
• Rational Team Concert.
• Rational Quality Manager.
• Some programming and development experience a plus.
• Working knowledge of XML.

We look forward to receiving your application! All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.