Lead Business Analyst

Phone/Skype Hire. Onsite from day 1

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Location: Albany, NY

Duration: 12 months

Responsibilities

• Working closely with program staff, vendors, and other stakeholders to define requirements.
• Eliciting, analyzing, communicating, and validating requirements.
• Analyzing high-level design recommendations.
• Analyzing and researching impacts to other agency systems.
• Working on complex software in a fast-paced, high volume work environment.
• Utilizing effective communication and facilitation skills to reach consensus among stakeholders.
• Delivering oral and written communications to business owners, IT program team members and management.
• Logging, analyzing, testing, and troubleshooting defects found in the test and production environments.
• Providing guidance in the development of test scenarios and internal software training documents.
• Evaluating existing manual test cases and identify opportunities for automation.
• Creating manual and automated test plans, cases, and scripts.
• Developing and documenting internal training as it relates to business analysis and testing.
• Serving as a point of contact to manage multiple stakeholder teams and vendors assigned to the project to ensure team actions remain in synergy.
• Communicating with executives or the board to keep the project aligned with their goals.
• Performing quality control on the project throughout development to maintain the standards expected.
• Developing and documenting internal training as it relates to PMO services.
• Leveraging agency software to assist in the management of project's SDLC.

Skills Needed

• 84 months of experience in Information Technology supporting complex software systems or applications, developing requirements, business process flows, fit-gap analyses, or functional designs solutions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the business processes.
• 84 months of experience eliciting and writing high quality functional and technical requirements in project specific protocol through use cases, user stories, functional design documents, and business design documents.
• 84 months of experience creating and reviewing test plans and preparing test cases to ensure solution satisfies requirements.
• 84 months of experience logging, analyzing, testing, and troubleshooting defects found in test and production environments.
• 60 months of experience providing written communications to business owners, IT program team members, and management.
• 18 months of experience working on IT projects utilizing Project Management Skills.
• 12 months of project experience working for a state or federal government agency.
• 12 months supporting organizational change management through user testing sessions, user training planning and delivery, and post deployment support.
• Master's degree