Sr. Business Analyst
About The Position
DOC requires the services of a Business Analyst staff augmentation consultant to assist the technical staff in gathering and documenting the system functional and system requirements for new development projects and enhancements to existing applications for DOC and Pennsylvania Parole Board (PPB) users. DOC IT primarily uses the Waterfall methodology. While we use Agile methodology for tracking project work (sprint planning and our development efforts), the candidate must have skill and expertise in eliciting and documenting requirements in a Waterfall environment. Experience with both waterfall and agile project methodologies is encouraged, Agile is not required.
Requirements
- Experience with SDLC, Waterfall and /or Agile Methodology – 7 years
- Experience with writing use cases and requirements documents – 7 years
- Experience with developing business requirements – 7 years
- Experience with developing functional requirements – 7 years
- Experience business process re-engineering – 7 years
Nice To Haves
- Experience in business change management – 3 years
- Experience with Team Foundation Server (TFS) – 3 years
Responsibilities
- Collects, analyzes, and documents business rules, processes, and legislation.
- Leads business requirements gathering sessions with business and technical resources for complex system development projects.
- Analyzes legislation or other business documentation (i.e. policies/procedures, RFPs, etc.) to determine necessary IT system changes or changes to business processes required to meet the objectives of an agency initiative.
- Works with business users to develop and implement improved business processes for their application to an IT system in support of agency program policy.
- Works with users to develop or enhance system requirements.
- Prepares or reviews detailed functional specifications for complex IT systems development or enhancement projects to be used by developers for system coding.
- Participates in the development of detailed functional specifications for highly complex system development and enhancement projects.
- Prepares use cases or other types of requirements documentation.
- Executes the above responsibilities independently, requiring minimal guidance or oversight.
- Assists with system testing.
- Assists with preparation of system change requests.
- Assists with the planning and prioritization of system changes.
- Assist with the creation of training materials.
- Troubleshoots system, data, or process problems.
- Works with development and database teams to identify opportunities for data migration and correspondingly documents any necessary business rules.
- Works with development and database teams to identify opportunities for integration and correspondingly documents any necessary business rules.
- Prepares mock-ups to provide visual aids for requirements gathering.
- Prepares process flows to document for As Is and To Be business processes.
- Performs basic SQL queries (as needed) for analysis purposes.
- Performs related work as required.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
