Business Analyst - Rules Verification

CAI•Trenton, NJ

10d•$70 - $81•Hybrid

About The Position

CAI is hiring a Business Analyst - Rules Verification for a full-time, long-term contract opportunity supporting the New Jersey Department of Children and Families, including its HR Modernization initiative. The role is hybrid, with three days per week onsite in Trenton, New Jersey. The analyst will verify civil service rules and create test oracles—expected-result sets—to demonstrate that the new system behaves correctly. This includes extracting business rules from legacy source code and documentation, tracing each rule to its origin, and building expected-result sets from production output. Applicants must have work authorization that does not require sponsorship now or in the future; local candidates only are considered.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
At least 5 years of experience in business analysis, including business rule extraction.
Demonstrated ability to extract business rules from legacy source code and legacy documentation, with traceability from each rule to its origin.
Ability to read legacy source code such as SQL, PL/SQL, or comparable languages.
Experience building expected-result sets from production output.
Experience maintaining a requirements traceability matrix.
Ability to write extracted rules in a specification format suitable for machine ingestion.
Working knowledge of SQL for data querying and analysis.
Strong analytical rigor and attention to detail.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
Work authorization that does not require sponsorship now or in the future.
Local candidates only.

Nice To Haves

Experience with civil service, public sector HR, or payroll rules.
Experience with parallel-run or dual-run validation on a modernization effort.
ISTQB or comparable testing certification.
Experience supporting State of New Jersey agencies.
Experience within Human Services, Child Welfare, Public Health, or Social Services programs.

Responsibilities

Identify and verify civil service rules governing titles, eligibility, appointments, promotions, seniority, and personnel actions.
Verify extracted rules against applicable civil service regulations and DCF policy.
Resolve conflicts between legacy code, documentation, and current practice with business owners, and record outcomes.
Extract business rules from legacy source code, including stored procedures and batch logic, and from legacy documentation.
Record every rule with traceability to its origin, such as a source file, procedure, or document section.
Flag undocumented, conflicting, or obsolete logic for review and decision.
Build expected-result sets from production output to serve as test oracles for the new system.
Define input and expected-output pairs for standard, boundary, and exception scenarios.
Partner with QA and test automation staff to load expected results into the reconciliation harness.
Write extracted rules in a specification format suitable for machine ingestion.
Maintain the requirements traceability matrix, linking each rule to its origin, specification, and test.
Manage rule changes through the program's change control process.