Business Analyst Expert

Summary

Join our team as an Expert Business Analyst and contribute to the development, procurement, and implementation of new software solutions. This remote role based in Raleigh, NC, is a 12+ month contract. You will be responsible for gathering and documenting business requirements, translating business needs into agile formats, working with stakeholders and developers, and supporting testing and implementation. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in business analysis, software development lifecycles, and requirements management. Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills are essential.

Requirements

• Possess extensive knowledge of business system techniques and testing methodologies for software development
• Demonstrate experience in gathering business requirements and development of business rules and process flow
• Possess proven experience with business process design, definition and/or re-design
• Have a solid understanding of software development lifecycle and Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid development frameworks, including BA role
• Possess high proficiency in Microsoft Office products (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Visio and SharePoint
• Have knowledge creating Context, Data Flow, and Functional Decomposition Diagrams
• Possess experience in planning & coordinating user acceptance testing including developing and executing test scenarios and test cases
• Have experience facilitating small to large meetings
• Demonstrate analytical skills and attention to detail
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Possess excellent creative thinking and problem-solving skills
• Have working knowledge of Jira and OpenText Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Quality Center (QC)

Responsibilities

• Identify and document stakeholders, data flows, and current and future state process flows
• Gather, document, validate, and maintain business, functional, and technical/non-functional system requirements needed as input to market analysis, software procurement, and solution development
• Translate client's business needs into agile themes, product backlogs, epics, user stories or detailed business requirement documents and use cases depending on development approach
• Work with Product Owner, business SMEs to groom user stories and define acceptance criteria to ensure that stories meet the team-defined definition of ready
• Work with vendor or internal developers and testers to confirm the functionality meets the story's acceptance criteria
• Participate in gap analysis and detailed requirement development efforts
• Assist the Business/Product Owner in planning, preparing for and conducting user acceptance testing, including developing test scenarios and test cases
• Perform requirements traceability throughout the project lifecycle to support user acceptance testing and production rollout
• Develop procurement documents such as Requests for Proposals, Requests for Quotes, Statements of Work, and Requests for Information
• Support vendor proposal evaluation efforts and assist in documenting evaluation results
• Support process improvement initiatives
• Perform market research for proposed automation projects
• Support options analysis and business case development for proposed automation projects
• Document meeting agendas and notes
• Facilitate requirements gathering meetings
• Support project manager in maintaining project artifacts and developing status reports
• Support the development of surveys, assessment tools, project methodologies, policies and procedures
• Maintain SharePoint site for each assigned project
• Perform other analysis assignments as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience in development of procurement related documents including RFP/SOWs, evaluation criteria as well as vendor evaluation
• Have experience working for State government
• Have Behavorial Health, Healthcare or Medicaid/Managed Care experience
• Have experience using Microsoft Project
• Have Technical Test planning, writing test cases/scripts, and test execution experience