Request ID:IN-8777-1 (910390520)
Healthcare BA/PM with rules, use cases, RUP, policy mining, modeling, BDD/Gherkin, JIRA and MMIS experience
Location:Columbia, SC
Duration:12 Months
REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
•5 years’ experience eliciting, mining, and documenting business rules, processes
•Superb written and oral communications skills, including the ability to write requirements and Use Cases.
•Experience and ability to obtain business processes and requirements information by interviewing business personnel and by mining laws, regulations, and policy documents.
•Knowledge of formal business process documentation.
•Understanding of business modeling techniques, including the use of graphical process flow software
•Ability to effectively communicate to executive management, line management, project management, and team members.
PREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
•Familiarity with Behavior Driven Design practices
•MMIS experience (project or operations)
•Jira or another similar system
•Familiarity with Gherkin or similar BDD language.
REQUIRED EDUCATION:
Bachelor’s degree in technical or business field.
Experience
AdministrativeVerbal Communication SkillsYes1ExpertCurrently Using4 – 6 Years
AdministrativeWritten Communication SkillsYes1ExpertCurrently Using4 – 6 Years
EducationBachelor’s degree in a technical or business fieldYes1ExpertCurrently Using2 – 4 Years
EducationMedicaid Management Information System (MMIS) experienceNo1ExpertCurrently Using4 – 6 Years
Miscellaneousbusiness modeling techniquesYes1ExpertCurrently Using4 – 6 Years
Miscellaneousgraphical process flow softwareYes1ExpertCurrently Using4 – 6 Years
Program Management – RUP methodologyEliciting, mining, and documenting business rules, processesYes1ExpertCurrently Using4 – 6 Years
Quality Assurance (QA)Use CasesYes1ExpertCurrently Using4 – 6 Years
Software FramworkJIRA frameworkNo1ExpertCurrently Using4 – 6 Years
Objectives to Be Fulfilled by Candidate:
The principal duties of this position are to evaluating agency needs, as-is and to-be business processes, and technical designs to provide analysis and advice on strategies for information technology solutions and non-technical solutions. Functions as a Senior Business Analyst. The BA will provide detailed analysis and document business processes and requirements.
Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
•Serves as a liaison between the business programs community and the IT organization to provide technical solutions to meet user needs.
•Working within a team to build the expertise in the business unit(s) they support, as well as, an understanding of the IT organization’s systems and capabilities.
•Analyzes business partner’s operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions.
•Assists in the business process redesign and documentation as needed for new technology.
•Translates high level business requirements into functional specifications for the IT organization and manages changes to such specifications. Educates the IT organization on the direction of the business.
•Negotiates agreements and commitments by facilitating communication between business unit(s) and IT from initial requirements to final implementation.
•Requirements development execution, including the elicitation, analysis, specification and validation.
•Documents and analyzes agency business processes and recommending improvements.
•Documents and analyzes data requirements and relationships.
•Participating in the requirements management processes, including change control, version control, tracking and status reporting, and traceability.
•Provides requirements interpretation and guidance to technical and test teams.
•Proactively identifying risks, issues, and action items leading to possible solutions.
•Interacts with internal and external organizations (i.e. vendors, State and Federal government agencies, State providers and beneficiaries, and other stakeholders).
•Research business rules, requirements, and models.
•Maintain business rules, requirements, and models in a repository.
•Other project-related duties.