Business Analyst

Business Analyst

  Not Disclosed

  Tallahassee, FL

  12.0 Months

  Not Disclosed

  Not Disclosed

  Government - State

  $58.9/hour - $63.9/hour

Job Description

The client requires the services of one Business Analyst to work under the direction of the client’s assigned Project Manager to assist in the technology upgrades of COAST and MEPIC as well as incorporating the new functionalities desired by the client customers. The Business Analyst is expected to perform the tasks and specific assignments given by the client’s assigned Project Manager.

Business Analyst responsibilities include, but not limited to the following:
Documenting business processes at a high level as well as a detailed flow;
Collection, analysis, review, and documentation of business requirements
Gathering business requirements (functional and non-functional)
Creating and updating detailed requirements and documentation
Creating traceability matrices to map business requirements to test cases
Creating use case and test case scenarios documentation
Experience with automated test tools and creating performance and load testing/metrics
Experience creating system, integration, and performance test plans
Performing test case scenarios following the client methodology of development testing, System testing, and User Acceptance testing
Assisting with JAD sessions with cross-jurisdictional agencies and stakeholders
Assisting with the coordination of project deliverables
Ensuring that proposed system architecture design, software and hardware solutions are professionally documented.
Contributor to activity definition, activity sequencing, activity resource estimating, activity duration estimating, WBS development
Contributor to risk identification, tracking, analysis
Contributor to issue management and tracking
Effective communication among project stakeholders
Provide weekly status reports to the project manager
Assist in user training for a train-the-trainer approach
Ensure customer expectations are met with the project;
Contributor to the client required deliverables according to the Risk and Complexity Assessments;
Assist with the production implementation as needed;
Assist with keeping system documentation current.

Mandatory Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience;
Minimum of 3 years of experience on successful, enterprise level information technology projects;
Minimum of 3 years of experience in integration of multiple systems or applications;
Minimum of 3 years of experience in gathering and documenting business requirements (functional and non-functional) on full life cycle development projects;
Minimum of 3 years of experience conducting JAD sessions with multi cross functional agencies and stakeholders;
Minimum of 3 years of experience creating comprehensive Test Plans and use of automated testing tools;
Extensive knowledge of Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)
Experience with meeting facilitation and requirements documentation;
Experience with business analysis and gathering and documenting requirements
Ability to gather and evaluate customer requirements and needs.
Strong communication and collaborative skills; and
Excellent oral, written and communication skills;
Ability to work independently or cooperatively with other software developers;
Ability to deliver the assignments of the project in the agreed schedule, to the correct technical specification (i.e. defined to meet user requirements) within the specified criteria;
Accountable to the client assigned Project Manager for all phases of specific projects.

Preferred Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience
Experience with development in Java Frameworks (.JSF) and J2EE
MS-Visio
JIRA
Silk Central
Business Analyst Certification