Job Description
RESPONSIBILITIES: • Serve as a lead BA on cloud migration and technology upgrade projects. • Serve as a key resource to support the development and implementation of Product Line Management / Value Streams to improve ITD’s timely delivery of value to customers. • Work with the Product Owners to understand business processes and pain points. • Develop expertise in the customers’ business applications. • Conduct Root Cause Analysis to identify system gaps and deficiencies that require a business, technical, or blended approach for resolution. • Diagram current processes and proposed modifications using process flows, context diagrams, and data flow diagrams. • Discover and document requirements and user stories with a focus on improving both business and technical processing. • Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff. • Utilize progressive elaboration; map stories to technical design specifications to be used by internal staff to develop the system modifications. • Identify and group related user stories into Themes, document the dependencies, and associated business processes. • Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog. • Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups. • Propose alternative solutions that balance cost and benefit and adequately test a solution’s feasibility for business and technical compatibility. • Collaborate with staff, vendors, consultants, and contractors as they are engaged in tasks to formulate, detail, and test potential and implemented solutions. • Perform Quality Analyst functions such as defining test objectives, test plans, and test cases, and executing test cases (including regression testing). • Assist Product Owners with testing the deliverables and coordinate User Acceptance Testing.
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: • The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts. • 5+ years experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology. • Knowledge and experience with Product Line Management and Value Stream implementation. • Experience with cloud migration projects (public and/or private). • Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs. • Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories. • Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing the acceptance process with the development. • Experience with large, multi-module systems. • Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server). • Experience with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). • The candidate must have exceptional written and oral communication skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers.
PREFERRED: • CBAP and/or CSPO Certification. • Experience using Team Foundation Server or similar tools for agile software development and work item tracking. • Experience using automated testing tools such as Test Complete.
REQUIRED SKILLS: The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business and systems analysis artifacts. – Required 10 years. 5+ years experience as an Agile Business Analyst; strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology – Required 5 years. Knowledge and experience with Product Line Management and Value Stream implementation – Required 5 years. Experience with cloud migration and infrastructure projects (public and/or private) – Required 5 years. Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs – Required 5 years. Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into application requirements and user stories – Required 10 years. Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process with development – Required 5 years. Experience with large, multi-module systems and Application Lifecycle Management – Required 10 years. Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server) – Required 10 years. The candidate must have exceptional written and oral communication skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and – Required 10 years. CBAP and/or CSPO Certification - Highly desired 10 years. Experience using Team Foundation Server or similar tools for agile software development and work item tracking - Highly desired 5 years. Experience using automated testing tools such as Test Complete - Highly desired 3 years.
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