Software Analyst - Healthcare Billing Systems

Nys Omh • Albany, NY

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Patient Characteristic Survey (PCS) is a biennial survey conducted by the Office of Population Health and Evaluation unit of the office of Mental Health (OMH). The PCS collects demographic, Clinical and Service related information for each person who receives public mental health services and all programs licensed or funded by the NYS OMH are required to complete the survey. The goal of this project is to update the 2027 questions and maintain existing application functionality. ALFS is a web-based OMH-developed application that allows the Office of Mental Health's Bureau of Community Budget and Financial Management (CBFM) to develop a budget, allocate funds, disburse payments and ensure that funds are expended in compliance with existing laws, regulations and guidelines utilizing shared platforms wherever possible to enhance efficiency of OMH applications. ALFS interfaces with several other systems as listed in the Configuration Items section. Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS) legacy application AS-IS analysis.

Requirements

• 84 Months Experience eliciting then analyzing the stakeholder's business needs using a variety of analysis techniques and converting those into verified and validated functional and non-functional requirements for development
• 84 Months Experience in creating and maintaining software development artifacts for communication of requirements, including context diagrams, textual use cases, swim lane diagrams, report specifications, wireframes, user interface specifications, and non-functional requirements specifications
• 84 Months Experience facilitating requirement workshops, JAD sessions and structured walkthroughs, conveyed and met
• 72 Months Experience managing requirements throughout the Requirements Management Lifecycle, including creation and execution of a Requirements Management Plan, requirements traceability, establishing requirements baselines and managing requirements change control.
• 64 Months Experience creating test plans and test cases and working with users on User Acceptance Testing
• 64 Months Experience working on Health Care billing systems

Nice To Haves

• CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) certification by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the project manager, technical team members and other project stakeholders to provide guidance throughout the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Work closely with Business Systems Analyst and the project team to identify and scope the stated business problem, provide guidance and recommend/execute approach to problem.
• Work as a liaison to stakeholders, software uses and Subject Matter Experts to elicit, analyze, communicate, validate and verify the requirements for complex changes to current business processes, policies and information systems and for the development of new business processes, policies and information systems.
• Convey the demands of software users to the developers and requirements artifacts.
• Create as-is and to-be business process flows and supporting software to meet agency needs.
• Conduct requirements workshops and JAD sessions with agency subject matter experts as one of the many techniques to be used to elicit requirements.
• Create business requirements documents, context diagrams, business requirements document (BRD), system "as-is” and "to be” states, system specifications, use cases and workflow diagrams, report and screen mockups, swim lane diagrams, and prototypes.
• Ensure that artifacts required by ITS governance process and Secure Systems Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) are created and support the project scope.
• Manage requirements through the life of the contract using a requirements management plan and traceability to ensure coverage between the source of each requirement and the test case(s) it will be tested by.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed