Requirements Engineer

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Foundational

• Ability to decompose requirements into user stories and perform risk analysis in order to provide clarity for development team members


• Utilizes knowledge of the software development lifecycle and engineering principles to ensure effective and on-time delivery of quality software applications


• Participates in product and feature demonstrations including client focus groups, internal partner presentations, client application presentations, management presentations and training


• Effectively utilizes Application Lifecycle Management system for documentation, prioritization and traceability

• Ensures that documentation and deliverables comply with established internal quality systems and regulatory standards


• Collaborates with geographically distributed teams


• All other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Essential Functions

• Applies knowledge of industry, domain, workflows and personas to create requirements that reflect user needs, strategic direction, and project scope


• Continually engages with product team members and appropriate client personas to validate deliverables and to ensure that requirements will satisfy the intended purpose along with needs of real world usage


• Effectively prioritizes the requirements backlog to address functional and non-functional needs and to provide accuracy and predictability of delivery


• Understanding of data structures and data flow between systems


• Ability to represent product workflows and requirements in appropriate visual or graphical representations (ex: process flow diagram, data flowchart, wireframes, low fidelity prototypes, etc.)


• Strong product knowledge and understanding of the healthcare market, client business drivers, user personas, etc. to inform product design and prioritization decisions


• Strong understanding of requirements dependencies

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS and ABILITIES

Soft Skills:

• Accountability for ensuring actions are taken to bring about timely, high quality and positive results within a specified timeframe

• Ability to think about the solution approach including interoperability with other products

Hard Skills:

• Ability to utilize user story mapping as a method of prioritizing functionality by focusing on value and customer outcomes