Title: Sr Business Analyst (with State Medicaid and CHIP services)

Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid-Local to the State of Texas)

REQUIRED TO BE ONSITE Tuesdays

Description:

The services to be provided include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Analyzes program policies, procedures, and processes to determine the impact on business systems and functional areas.
2. Analyzes and reviews system, data, and project deliverables such as business user requirements, design documentation, test plans, and risk assessment plans to ensure business and technical requirements are met.
3. Works with Program area staff to solicit, analyze, develop and document business processes and requirements.
4. Acts as a liaison between state staff and vendors to translate operational and business requirements to vendors.
5. Analyzes and writes User Stories with Acceptance Criteria based on business needs and according to the Agile methodology.
6. Develops and maintains business user test scenarios and participates in systems and user acceptance testing.
7. Creates use case scenarios, test plans, and exit criteria that accurately map back to the documented business requirements or user stories.
8. Reviews, analyzes and executes test cases with a formal testing tool.
9. Tracks, documents and reports the status of testing.
10. Evaluates proposed test strategies to ensure appropriate test coverage.
11. Identifies potential project risks and issues and develops mitigation strategies.
12. Reports project status to management on established timelines.
13. Documents action items and business decisions.
14. Performs meetings and/or presentation tasks as needed.
15. Manages schedule for deliverables as established.

Required Skills:

8 Years Experience in performing complex business analysis and writing technical documentation.

8 Years Experience utilizing business analysis skills and interacting with business end-users to gather, validate and document business requirements and translate into technical solutions to satisfy the business needs to technical staff.

8 Years Experience analyzing program policies, business processes and procedures, and developing & maintaining the related functional and technical documentation.

8 Years Experience performing review and approval processes of complex technical user and system requirements written by vendors.

8 Years Experience in effective general written/oral communication, including documenting requirements, deliverables, test scenarios and project status.

8 Years Experience with Microsoft Office products (e.g., Teams, Word, Excel, etc.).

Preferred Skills:

5 Years Experience coordinating and developing test plans/strategies, exit criteria and test scenarios.

5 Years Experience executing detailed test cases within a complex software environment.

5 Years Experience using testing management software.

5 Years Experience reporting project status to management including risks, issues, and key decisions.

5 Years Experience identifying project risks and issues; and developing/implementing mitigation strategies.

5 Years Experience with Microsoft Project or similar project management software.

5 Years Experience utilizing the Agile software development methodology.

5 Years Experience with business process analysis including developing and maintaining "as-is" and "to-be" business process diagrams.

5 Years Experience with Medicaid and CHIP services.