Title: Business Analyst 3

Location: Austin (Hybrid, one day/week onsite)

Duration: 12 Months

Responsibilities

• Analyzes program policies, procedures, and processes to determine the impact on business systems and functional areas.
• 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.
• Works with Program area staff to solicit, analyze, develop and document business processes and requirements.
• Acts as a liaison between client staff and vendors to translate operational and business requirements to vendors.
• Analyzes and writes User Stories with Acceptance Criteria based on business needs and according to the Agile methodology.
• Develops and maintains business user test scenarios and participates in systems and user acceptance testing.
• Creates use case scenarios, test plans, and exit criteria that accurately map back to the documented business requirements or user stories.
• Reviews, analyzes and executes test cases with a formal testing tool.
• Tracks, documents and reports the status of testing.
• Evaluates proposed test strategies to ensure appropriate test coverage.
• Identifies potential project risks and issues and develops mitigation strategies.
• Reports project status to management on established timelines.
• Documents action items and business decisions.
• Performs meetings and/or presentation tasks as needed.
• Manages schedule for deliverables as established.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Experience

• Required 8 years of Experience in performing complex business analysis and writing technical documentation.
• Required 8 years of 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
• Required 8 years of Experience analyzing program policies, business processes and procedures, and developing & maintaining the related functional and technical documentation.
• Required 8 years of Experience performing review and approval processes of complex technical user and system requirements written by vendors.
• Required 8 years of Experience in effective general written/oral communication, including documenting requirements, deliverables, test scenarios and project status.
• Required 8 years of Experience with Microsoft Office products (e.g., Teams, Word, Excel, etc.).

Preferred Experience (5 Years)

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

• Experience executing detailed test cases within a complex software environment.
• Experience using testing management software.
• Experience reporting project status to management including risks, issues, and key decisions.
• Experience identifying project risks and issues; and developing/implementing mitigation strategies.
• Experience with Microsoft Project or similar project management software.
• Experience utilizing the Agile software development methodology.
• Experience with business process analysis including developing and maintaining "as-is" and "to-be" business process diagrams.
• Experience with Medicaid and CHIP services

Thanks,

Karunakaran